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Wage Flexibility Under Sectoral Bargaining

Card, David E.; Cardoso, Ana Rute - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

often pay a wage premium (or wage cushion) to individual workers. We use administrative data from Portugal, linked to …

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Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2008

Portugal from 1995-2004, we describe temporal patterns of firms' demand for labor and estimate production-functions and …

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Temporary Help Services Employment in Portugal, 1995-2000

Boeheim, Rene - 2007

THS. Linked employer-employee data for Portugal enable us to account for observable as well as unobservable worker quality …

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Firms and Labor Market Inequality : Evidence and Some Theory

Card, David - 2016

We survey two growing bodies of research on firm-level drivers of labor market inequality. The first examines how wages are affected by differences in employer productivity. Studies that focus on firm-specific productivity shocks and control for the non-random sorting of workers to firms...

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Bargaining, Sorting, and the Gender Wage Gap : Quantifying the Impact of Firms on the Relative Pay of Women

Card, David - 2015

-fifth of the cross-sectional gender wage gap in Portugal …

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Can Compulsory Military Service Increase Civilian Wages? Evidence from the Peacetime Draft in Portugal

Card, David - 2011

Although military conscription was widespread during most of the past century, credible evidence on the effects of mandatory service is limited. We provide new evidence on the long-term effects of peacetime conscription, using longitudinal data for Portuguese men born in 1967. These men were...

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Innovation in Israel 1968-97 : A Comparative Analysis Using Patent Data

Trajtenberg, Manuel - 1999

the israeli economy in the nineties and beyond. In this paper we present a close-up portrait of innovation in Israel for …

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The Welfare Analysis of Product Innovations with an Application to CT Scanners

Trajtenberg, Manuel - 1985

applied to the case of Computed Tomography (CT) Scanners, a revolutionary innovation in medical technology. The econometric … from innovation is used primarily to compute a social rate of return to R&D, to explore the interrelation between … innovation and diffusion, and to trace the time profile of benefits and costs, the latter suggesting the possible occurance of …

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Institutions and Technological Innovation During the Early Economic Growth : Evidence from the Great Inventors of the United States, 1790-1930

Khan, B. Zorina - 2004

opportunity and in encouraging trade in new technological knowledge. Through setting low fees and establishing administrative … cost of transacting in them. Creating secure assets in new technological knowledge and facilitating access to markets in …

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Technological Innovations and Endogenous Changes in U.S. Legal Institutions, 1790-1920

Khan, B. Zorina - 2004

Recent scholarship highlights the importance of institutions to the processes of economic growth, but the precise nature of their relationship bears further examination. This paper considers how the evolution of legal institutions has contributed to, and in turn been affected by, major...

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