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Transatlantic differences in labour markets changes in wage and non-employment structures in the 1980s and the 1990s

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2005

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain and rising continental European unemployment have led to a popular view in the economics profession that these two phenomena are related to negative relative demand shocks against the unskilled, combined with flexible wages in the Anglo-Saxon...

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Transatlantic Differences in Labour Markets : Changes in Wage and Non-Employment Structures in the 1980s and the 1990s

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2005

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Model-Based Indicators of Labour Market Rigidity

Fabiani, Silvia; Rodriguez Palenzuela, Diego - 2021

We derive indicators of labour market flexibility that are comparable across countries and time intervals. Our indicators build on a structural VAR model of real wages, output and unemployment dynamics. We compute our indicators for thirteen OECD countries and for two time periods, and we...

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Whatever works: Dualisation and the service economy in Bismarckian welfare states

Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul - 2010

The paper compares employment structures in five Continental welfare states. These countries feature broad similarities in their reliance on a more dualised model of labour market flexibility, particularly in service occupations with low skill requirements. However, a closer look also reveals...

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Whatever Works : Dualisation and the Service Economy in Bismarckian Welfare States

Eichhorst, Werner - 2010

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Whatever works : dualisation and the service economy in Bismarckian welfare states

Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul - 2010

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Labor market concentration and competition policy across the Atlantic

Araki, Satoshi; Bassanini, Andrea; Green, Andrew S.; … - 2022

Drawing upon data from the largest cross-country study of labor market concentration to date, this paper analyzes the level of concentration of labor input markets in Europe and North America and provides a comparative perspective on employers' monopsony power. It explores the characteristics of...

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A Tale of Two Academic Tracks

Asali, Muhammad - 2018

Given asymmetric information, this paper explores the need for non-tenure-track jobs in academia alongside the usual tenure-track positions. It also explains the coexistence of these two types of jobs in research universities as an equilibrium phenomenon. The increased effort needed to produce...

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Zu den Löhnen der Lokomotivführer der Deutschen Bahn AG

Brenke, Karl; Gataullina, Liliya; Handrich, Lars; … - In: DIW Wochenbericht 74 (2007) 43, pp. 621-629

. Berufskraftfahrer. Im Vergleich mit privaten Bahnunternehmen in Deutschland vergütet die DB die Leistung ihrer Lokomotivführer generell … Berufsgruppe höher entlohnt wird als in Deutschland. In diesen Ländern sind allerdings in der Regel auch die übrigen Löhne sowie … die Lebenshaltungskosten höher als in Deutschland. …

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Between-group Competition in the Labor Market and the Rising Returns to Skill: US and France 1964-2000

Wasmer, Etienne - 2001

This paper describes the changes in the composition of the labor force in the last 35 years and quantifies the substitution of low education / high experience workers by low experience / high education workers by using US and French microdata. The consequences of this substitution on the wage...

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