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Inward FDI and demand for skills in Sweden
Bandick, Roger; Hansson, Pär - 2005
We observe a substantial increase of foreign ownership in Sweden in the 1990s. Did that have any effect on relative demand for skilled labor? Has technology transfers often associated with inward FDI led to increased demand for skills due to skilled-biased technical change? Are there any grounds...
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Firms' margins of adjustment to wage growth: The case of Italian collective bargaining
Devicienti, Francesco; Fanfani, Bernardo - 2021
show that on average employment, revenues, profits and investments fall, wages increase, while firms' productivity and … firms' productivity distribution. Employment, revenues, productivity, profits and investments are positively or not related …
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The multi-dimensional nature of labor demand and skill-biased technical change
Mellander, Erik - 1999
Investigating the robustness of the skill-biased technical change hypothesis, this analysis incorporates two novel features. First, effective labor is modeled as the product of a quantity measure - number of employees with a given level of education - and a quality index, depending on, i.a.,...
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Selection Bias and the Decomposition of Wage Differentials
Yun, Myeong-Su - 2000
The major contribution of this paper is finding a new and general approach to decomposing log-wage differentials when selection effects are present. We divide the observed log-wage differentials between two groups into 1) differentials in predicted log-wages computed using observed individual...
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Ownership Characteristics and Access to Finance:Evidence from a Survey of Large Privatised Companiesin Hungary and Poland.
Isachenkova, Natalia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Centre for the Study of Economic and Social Change in … - 2003
We examine financial constraints and forms of finance used for investment, byanalysing survey data on 157 large privatised companies in Hungary and Poland for theperiod 1998 – 2000. The Bayesian analysis using Gibbs sampling is carried out toobtain inferences about the sample companies’...
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Foreign Ownership and Transferring of Gender Norms
Halvarsson, Daniel; Lark, Olga; Gustavsson Tingvall, Patrik - 2022
In this paper, we study foreign ownership as a vehicle for transferring gender norms across international borders. Specifically, we analyze how the wage differential between men and women in Swedish firms is affected by the degree of gender inequality in the home country of foreign investors....
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Are foreign owned firms more productive? Evidence from Swedish firm data
Karpaty, Patrik - 2004
This paper analyzes the difference between foreign and domestic ownership of firms with respect to productivity. The …:s. First we show that, other things equal, foreign-owned firms have higher labor productivity as well as total factor … productivity than domestic firms. We also find that Swedish multinational firms are as productive as foreign-owned firms. Then we …
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Wage Bargaining, Privatisation, Ability to Pay, andOutside Options – Evidence from Hungary
Köllő, Janos; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Centre for the Study of Economic and Social Change in … - 2004
This paper examines the determinants of short-term wage dynamics, using asample of large Hungarian companies for the period of 1996-1999. We test thebasic implications of an efficient contract model of bargaining between theincumbent employees and the managers, which we are unable to reject....
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Privatisation, Corporate Control and Employment Growth:Evidence From A Panel of Large Polish Firms, 1996-2002
Mickiewicz, Tomasz; Bishop, Kate; Gerry, Christopher J - Centre for the Study of Economic and Social Change in … - 2005
Using panel data on large Polish firms this paper examines the relationship between corporatecontrol structures, sales growth and the determinants of employment change during the period 1996-2002. We find that privatised and de novo firms are the main drivers of employment growth andthat, in the...
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Recent claims of China's economic exceptionalism: Reflections inspired by WTO accession
Woo, Wing Thye - 2001
The desirability of WTO membership for China depends on whether its economic successes have been the result of its discovery of new institutional forms (e.g. dual track pricing, SOE contracts, and fiscal contracts) that are optimal for China''s particular economic circumstances, or have been the...
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