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Is training more frequent when wage compression is higher? : evidence from 11 European countries
Brunello, Giorgio - 2002
In this empirical paper, I use the 1996 wave of the ECHP dataset to investigate the relationship between measures of wage compression and training incidence in 11 European countries. I find that, after controlling for individual factors and country specific institutional differences, there is...
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Who's fit for the low-carbon transition? : emerging skills and wage gaps in job and data
Saussay, Aurélien; Sato, Misato; Vona, Francesco; … - 2022
As governments worldwide increase their commitments to tackling climate change, the number of low-carbon jobs are expected to grow rapidly. Here we provide evidence on the characteristics of low-carbon jobs in the US using comprehensive online job postings data between 2010-2019. By accurately...
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The wage incentive to management : a comparison across European economies
Biagetti, Marco; Leonida, Leone; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2012
We define the wage incentive to management as the wage premium the manager earns because of his/her supervising role. We adopt an approach based on what if questions and estimate the premium at different quantiles of the distribution of wages for 26 European economies. To ease comparisons we...
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Trade liberalization, collective bargaining and workers : wages and working conditions
Alvarez, Bastien; Orefice, Gianluca; Toubal, Farid - 2022
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Functional specialisation and working conditions in Europe
Stöllinger, Roman; Leitner, Sandra M.; Zavarska, Zuzana - 2023
Specialisation in value-chain functions is one of the new phenomena introduced by global value chains (GVCs). This report investigates the effects of functional specialisation on labour markets in fabrication and R&D activities as the two polar cases of value-chain functions, whereby the former...
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Labour productivity growth in Malta : a sectoral decomposition analysis
Montebello, Roberta; Darmanin, Jude - 2021
technique developed by Tang and Wang (2004), which allows for the decomposition of sectoral productivity growth into efficiency … other hand, the contribution of within-sector efficiency gains in Malta was below that observed in the euro area on average … productivity growth. On the other hand, the manufacturing sector mainly registered negative contributions, as efficiency gains were …
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Bureaucratic rent-seeking in the European Union
Brandt, Urs Steiner (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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The Europeanisation of board‑level employee representation in France : an emerging role for European Works Councils?
Lafuente, Sara - 2022
In France, the legal obligation for private-sector companies to have, under certain conditions, one or two employee representatives on their boards goes hand in hand with the possibility for the company to decide to have its European Works Council (EWC) or SE Works Council (SE-WC) appoint the...
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What should be done about Google's quasi-monopoly in search? : mandatory data sharing versus AI-driven technological competition
Martens, Bertin - 2023
search-engine efficiency that asymmetric data sharing may increase competition but may also reduce scale and user welfare …
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Emigration and wages : the EU enlargement experiment
Elsner, Benjamin - 2011
This paper studies the impact of a large emigration wave on real wages in the source country. Following EU enlargement in 2004, a large share of the workforce of the Central and Eastern Europe emigrated to Western Europe. Using data from Lithuania for the calibration of a factor demand model I...
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