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According to theory, the effect of carriers' transport costs on freight prices depends on the directional imbalance in transport flows. Using data on inland waterway transport, we demonstrate that when the ratio of export to import trips doubles, the marginal effect of carriers' transport costs...
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the effect of employment protection rules on labor productivity using micro data on Swedish firms. A reform of the … the seniority rules. I exploit the reform as a natural experiment. My results indicate that increased labor market … exibility increases labor productivity. The increase is not explained by capital intensity or the educational level of workers. …
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This study uses data on Swedish multinationals to estimate cross elasticities of labour demand in different locations. With a vertical decomposition of the firm's activities, whether there is substitution or complementarity between employment in different parts of the firm will depend on whether...
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The growing number of cross-border acquisitions has in many countries raised concerns about labor demand consequences … affect the volatility of employment, or rather, the wage elasticity of labor demand. We analyze whether the wage elasticity … of labor demand differs between multinational and non-multinational firms as well as between foreign-owned and domestic …
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In this paper we derive a structural measure for labor market density based on the Ellison and Glasear (1997) "Index … for industry concentration". This labor market density measure serves as a proxy for the number of workers that can reach …
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distribution with a lower level of labor market tightness; (iv) the average wage is non-monotonic in the number of applications; (v …
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The paper examines the determinants of the division of labor within firms. It provides an explanation of the pervasive … rotation. Whereas the existing literature on the division of labor within firms emphasizes the returns from specialization and … of the versatility of human capital. The paper also explores how the move towards multi-tasking can affect the labor …
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We study risk behavior of Danish self-employed entrepreneurs, whose income risk may be driven by both exogenous factors and effort choice (moral hazard). Partial insurance is available through voluntary unemployment insurance (UI). Additional incentives to sign insurance contracts stem from a...
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