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Whodunnit? Changes in the Relative Demand for Unskilled and Skilled Labor
Schimmelpfennig, Axel - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1999
relative wage of the skilled. Increasing unemployment results only for a restrictive assumption about labor market rigidities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755135
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Working-week flexibility: Implications for employment and productivity
Osuna, Victoria - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
This paper evaluates the implications for employment, productivity and wages of allowing for more flexibility in weekly hours worked introduced in the recent Spanish labour market reform (the 2012 reform). A crucial aspect of the model will be the extent to which firms will be able to choose the...
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Provision of public goods, voting and agglomerative bias
Kopp, Andreas - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998
Skill-biased technical change is identified as the driving force behind the changing skill composition in OECD countries rather than structural change. The finding is partly the result of the sectoral view taken. This paper suggests a different view which uses the production process as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009276245
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Macroeconomic Relaxation: Adjustment Processes of Hierarchical Economic Structures
Hawkins, Raymond; Aoki, Masanao - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008
examining the relationship between output and demand as mediated by changes in unemployment, or Okun's law. We also demonstrate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097460
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Labor Market Trends and Institutions in Belarus
Brixiova, Zuzana; Volchok, Vera - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2005
led to the emergence of a private sector and open unemployment. The Belarusian labor market is characterized by low … official unemployment, combined with a low share of the private sector in the aggregate employment. However, the cumulative …, and the youth unemployment remains high. The mismatch in skills between the unemployed and the vacancies and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005652632
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Determinants of Employment Growth at MNEs: Evidence from Egypt, India, South Africa and Vietnam
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Meyer, Klaus; Estrin, Saul - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2004
Foreign investors are expected to contribute to economic development through a variety of channels. However, many foreign investment operations are small, and almost insignificant in their impact on the local environment. An important indication of the potential contribution of foreign investors...
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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. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2000
Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain and rising continental European unemployment have led to a popular view …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005652543
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WAGE DETERMINATION: PRIVATISED, NEW PRIVATE AND STATE OWNED COMPANIES. EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM PANEL DATA
Mickiewicz, Tomasz; Bishop, Kate - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2003
This paper examines the determinants of wage pressure in large companies, including ownership characteristics and the impact of regional labour markets. By using a panel of 329 Polish largest firms during the period 1997- 2001, we find evidence of rent sharing activities, however there is also...
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An Incentive Theory of Matching
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010
This paper examines the labour market matching process by distinguishing its two component stages: the contact stage, in which job searchers make contact with employers and the selection stage, in which they decide whether to match. We construct a theoretical model explaining two-sided selection...
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Monetary Policy and Swedish Unemployment Fluctuations
Alexius, Annika; Holmlund, Bertil - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007
such as unemployment. Previous studies indicate that monetary policy affects the output gap only at business cycle … frequencies, but the effects on unemployment may well be more persistent in countries with highly regulated labor markets. We … study the Swedish experience of unemployment and monetary policy. Using a structural VAR we find that around 30 percent of …
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