Search Results - subject_exact:"Labour costs"

Leutert, Jessica; Scheufele, Rolf; Schön, Selina - 2025

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Robots and the wedge between wages and productivity : a European analysis

Oleš, Tomáš; Prettner, Klaus; Lábaj, Martin; … - 2026

We study the role of industrial robots in shaping the divergence between labor productivity and wages across European countries from 1995 to 2020. To this end, we develop a tractable theoretical model in which robots substitute for routine labor. The model predicts a widening wage-productivity...

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Productivity growth in Europe : is Baumol cost disease an explanation?

Hennessy, Mark; Lawless, Martina; O'Connor, Ciara - 2026

This paper examines the existence and extent to which the "Baumol cost disease" could have affected aggregate growth in Europe. This would arise if lower productivity sectors began to account for an increasing share of output which would then put downward pressure on the prospective growth rate...

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Comparative analysis of labor markets in Bulgaria, Italy, and the UK : wage dynamics, labor costs, and digital development

Zherlitsyn, Dmytro; Rekova, Nataliia - 2026

This article examines labor market dynamics in Bulgaria, Italy, and the United Kingdom by integrating demographic pressures, wage and labor cost adjustment, redistribution mechanisms, inequality outcomes, and digital readiness into a single comparative framework. This study first applies...

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Assessing cost competitiveness : the Bank of Finland approach

Eerola, Essi; Peltonen, Juho; Pönkä, Harri - 2026

This paper describes the framework used by the Bank of Finland to assess the cost competitiveness of the Finnish economy. We discuss the conceptual foundations, data choices, and methodological trade-offs involved in constructing commonly used indicators, with particular emphasis on...

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Visa for competitiveness : foreign workforce and Italian dairy farms' performance

Antonioli, Federico; Severini, Simone; Vigani, Mauro - 2023

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Italian labour productivity : a wage-led decline

Angelone, Paolo; Canale, Rosaria Rita - 2025

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The impact of CEO political ideology on labor cost reductions and payout decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic

Bayat, Ali; Goergen, Marc; Koutroumpis, Panagiotis; … - 2025

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Internationalisation as a boost for many firms : evidence from Germany

Frey, Rainer; Goldbach, Stefan - 2025

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The (in)effectiveness of targeted payroll tax reductions

Fenizia, Alessandra; Li, Nicholas; Citino, Luca - 2025

This paper studies the cost-effectiveness of targeted payroll taxes for stimulating labor demand. It uses rich administrative data to study the effects of an Italian reform that raised social security contributions for apprenticeship contracts but granted a substantial discount for firms with 9...

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Looking in the rear-view mirror : evidence from artificial intelligence investment, labour market conditions and firm growth

Tingbani, Ishmael; Salia, Samuel; Hartwell, Christopher A. - 2025

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Air pollution and firms' robot adoption : evidence from China

Tang, Yuwei; Sun, Yanlin; He, Zhenyu - 2025

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Stellen- und Personalkostenexplosion der Ministerialbürokratie des Bundes

Meyer, Tim; Raffelhüschen, Bernd - 2025

In den Bundesministerien ist eine massive Stellenmehrung zu verzeichnen. Während die Zahl der Planstellen für Beamte im Jahr 2013 noch bei rund 15.000 lag, ist sie seither um 47 Prozent auf mehr als 22.000 angestiegen. Dabei wurden die zusätzlichen Stellen überwiegend in den oberen und...

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La surfiscalisation du travail qualifié en France : conséquences économiques et enjeux pour les entreprises des secteurs représentés par la Fédération Syntec

Redoulès, Olivier; Koléda, Gilles; Maréchal, Antoine - 2025

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Who pays for the minimum wage in the japanese manufacturing sector?

Yamanouchi, Kenta; Okudaira, Hiroko; Takizawa, Miho; … - 2025

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The incidence of Social Security taxes on teacher wages and employment

Kim, Dongwoo; Koedel, Cory; Gorina, Eugenia; … - 2025

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The effects of social insurance premium on employment, labor costs, and revenue : evidence from Japan

Hosono, Kaoru; Hotei, Masaki - 2025

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Reshoring und De-Globalisierung : die Relevanz der strategischen Reshoring-Entscheidung für das Business Development deutscher und europäischer Unternehmen

Michalski, Tino; Sohlbach, Simon; Baroutas, Georgios - 2025

Die Strategie der globalen Beschaffung, z. B. das Erzielen von Wettbewerbsvorteilen durch Kostensenkung aufgrund von globalem Outsourcing der Wertschöpfungskette sowie global verteilten und fragmentierten Arbeitspaketen, wird im Kontext mehrerer wachsender globaler Krisen kritisch gesehen....

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Theory meets textual analysis: measuring firm-level labor cost pressures and inflation pass-through

Kalyani, Aakash; Ozkan, Serdar - 2025 - This version: July 6, 2025

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Wage and employment of japanese subsidiaries in Asia : a survey on labour cost adjustments

Hjort, Jonas; Saito, Yukiko Umeno; Tateishi, Yasuka; … - 2025

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Wage productivity gap and labour market flexibility : a study based on indian manufacturing industries during 1973-2020

Dasgupta, Byasdeb; Dutta, Dip - 2025

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Analysis of the relationship between ESG and labor costs : the moderating effect of the legal tradition

Argilés Bosch, Josep M.; García Blandón, Josep; … - 2025

This study examines the relationship between Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) scores and labor costs per employee (LCE) in firms operating under different legal traditions, specifically comparing civil law (France) and common law (United Kingdom) countries. Utilizing data from the...

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Marked increase in relative unit labour costs in 2024

Bittschi, Benjamin; Meyer, Birgit - 2025

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Labour market and wage developments in Europe 2025

2025

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Baumol's cost disease in acute versus long-term care : do the differences loom large?

Celebi, Kaan; Hartwig, Jochen; Sandqvist, Anna Pauliina - 2025

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Listed founding family firms and labor cost stickiness

Gnoth, Carsten; Rapp, Marc Steffen; Udoieva, Julia - 2025

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Labor cost passthrough : evidence from japanese long-term subnational Data

Kido, Yosuke; Suita, Kotaro - 2025

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Digital transformation and corporate Labor costs for ordinary employees

Wu, Ying; Deng, Li; Huang, Wen - 2025

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Digital Transformation and Corporate Labor Costs for Ordinary Employees

Wu, Ying; Deng, Li; Huang, Wen - 2023

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Minimum wage as the determinant of productivity in EU countries

Kopecká, Jana; Viskotová, Lenka; Hampel, David - 2025

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From farms to factories : the divergent impact of agriculture import growth on labour costs

Li, Jie; Jin, Shi - 2025

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Optimal trend inflation, misallocation and the pass-through of labour costs to prices

Santoro, Sergio; Viviano, Eliana - 2022

We show that a sticky price model featuring firms' heterogeneity in terms of productivity and strategic complementarities in price setting delivers a strictly positive optimal inflation in steady state, differently from standard New Keynesian models. Due to strategic complementarities, more...

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Optimal Trend Inflation, Misallocation and the Pass-Through of Labour Costs to Prices

Santoro, Sergio; Viviano, Eliana - 2022

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Internationalisation as a boost for many firms: evidence from Germany

Frey, Rainer; Goldbach, Stefan - 2024

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20 Jahre nach der EU-Erweiterung : Visegrád-Länder haben weiterhin einen Vorteil bei der Kostenwettbewerbsfähigkeit : Zeitgespräch

Schröder, Christoph; Seele, Stefanie - 2024

Twenty years after the EU accession of the Visegrád countries-- Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary - we analyse their development of unit labour costs and of the labour share in manufacturing for the years 1995 to 2023. Firstly, the labour shares in the Visegrád countries have...

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Unit labor costs and inflation in the OECD countries

Cuevas Ahumada, Víctor Manuel; Perrotini Hernández, … - 2024

This paper investigates the drivers of inflation in 34 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries from the first quarter of 2020 to the fourth quarter of 2022. Using an amplified price equation and two different panel data econometric techniques, we assess the impact of...

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Les freins à la progression salariale : enquêtes sur l'impact des dispositifs socio-fiscaux

Redoulès, Olivier; Koléda, Gilles; Touili, Meriem; … - 2024

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Divesting or keeping overseas subsidiary production under rising production costs and uncertain market demands in host countries

Song, Sangcheol - 2024

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How cyclical is the user cost of labor?

Kudlyak, Marianna - 2024

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How cyclical Is the user cost of labor?

Kudlyak, Marianna - 2024

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How cyclical is the user cost of labor?

Kudlyak, Marianna - 2024

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How cyclical is the user cost of labor?

Kudlyak, Marianna - 2024

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The effects of minimum wages on employment and prices : evidence from the hairdressing sector

Kunaschk, Max - 2024

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Kainų raidos veiksniai Lietuvoje 2004-2022 m. remiantis nacionalinių sąskaitų duomenimis

Vasiliauskas, Kasparas - 2024

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Sick leave and medical leave in the United States : a categorization and recent trends

Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2024

This article reviews the current debate about sick pay mandates and medical leave in the United States. The United States is one of three industrialized countries that do not guarantee access to paid sick leave for all employees. We first provide a categorization of the different paid leave...

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Sick leave and medical leave in the United States : a categorization and recent trends

Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2024

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Payroll tax reductions for minimum wage workers : relative labor cost or cash windfall effects?

Cottet, Sophie - 2024

This paper uses administrative employer-employee data to uncover the effects of a large payroll tax reduction for minimum-wage workers in France. Exploiting the change in labor costs both at the job level and at the firm level, I find that the policy spurred an additional 13 percentage points...

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Payroll tax reductions for minimum wage workers : relative labor cost or cash windfall effects?

Cottet, Sophie - 2020

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International sourcing, domestic labour costs and producer prices

Blanas, Sotiris; Zanardi, Maurizio - 2024

Using a representative sample of firms in Belgian manufacturing over 2001Q1-2017Q4, we study the effects of their international sourcing activities and domestic wages on their domestic output prices, as well as the effects of international sourcing on (relative) domestic wages. Controlling for...

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Tackling financialization amidst rising labor cost in China

Du, Zhuo-Ya; Wang, Qian - 2024

Suppressing corporate financialization exacerbated by rising labor costs is an important micro-level issue for revitalizing the manufacturing industry. This research investigates the interaction mechanism among labor costs and financialization, using panel data of Chinese listed companies from...

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