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Traditionally, the impacts of the rights of financial institutions and workers on corporate performance have been analyzed independently. Yet, theory clearly indicates that the combination of relative powers of different stakeholders affects a firm overall performance. Using U.S. state level and...
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measures differences in labor productivity (the Ricardian measure), and the other differences in total factor productivity (the …
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Regional labor market discrepancies have been widening in Belgium in the last two decades and are more evident within …-unemployment provinces. Using a structural VAR, it is also shown that labor market dynamics in Belgium produce a strong attenuating effect on … employment growth, in contrast to the United States where initial labor demand shocks are expanded in the long run. After the …
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capital and labor based on administratively set minimum wages rather than an imputed return to book assets.  This paper … shift would also raise the tax burden of skilled labor-intensive industries more than it would that of capital …
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This paper reviews the recent labor-market performance of 21 rich countries, with a focus on Denmark and Germany …. Denmark, which was widely seen as one of the world's most successful labor markets before the downturn, has struggled in … recent years. Germany, however, has outperformed the rest of the world's rich countries since 2007, despite earlier labor …
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-offenders of working age. Because a prison record or felony conviction greatly lowers ex-offenders’ prospects in the labor market …
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standard (Solow-style) growth accounting methodologies. We find that factor accumulation (especially labor), rather than growth … of capital accumulation and some natural constraints on labor, the strong growth momentum is unlikely to be sustainable …
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A series of earlier CEPR reports documented a substantial decline over the last three decades in the share of “good jobs” in the U.S. economy. This fall-off in job quality took place despite a large increase in the educational attainment and age of the workforce, as well as the productivity...
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On January 24, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its estimates for union membership in the United States in …
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This issue brief looks at the most recent national data available to examine the impact that being in or represented by a union has on the wages and benefits of women in the paid workforce. Even after controlling for factors such as age, race, industry, educational attainment and state of...
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