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Incentives and Complementarities of Flexicurity
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Snower, Dennis - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
full Danish flexicurity set of policies (low employment protection, high unemployment benefits and workfare). Our results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079106
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Technology Shocks and Employment in Open Economies
Tervala, Juha - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007
employment. A two-country model is used to demonstrate that the open economy dimension can enhance the ability of sticky price … from domestic goods. This causes a temporary decline in domestic employment. If the expenditure-switching effect is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005083337
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The Effect of Low-Wage Subsidies on Skills and Employment
Oskamp, Frank; Snower, Dennis J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006
We explore the far-reaching implications of low-wage subsidies on skill formation, aggregate employment and welfare …. Low-wage subsidies have three important effects. First, they promote employment of low-skilled workers (who tend to be the … reduce the incentive to become skilled. So they increase the low-skilled labor force which faces a relatively low employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005103185
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An Incentive Theory of Matching
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are heterogeneous variations in the characteristics of workers and jobs, and firms face adjustment costs in responding to these variations. Matches and separations are described...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004992848
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Workers without frontiers : the impact of globalization on international migration
Stalker, Peter - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2000
Addressing a gap in most discussions on globalization, Stalker examines how migration interacts with movement of goods and capital and how it is closely tied to social and economic changes. He makes starkly clear the major impact that economic convergence is likely to have on migrant flows and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010681372
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Options for migration policies in the long term development of Mauritius
Hein, Philippe - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2004
Analyses immigration to Mauritius since 1990. Examines migration policies and the role of emigration in the future development of the country. Presents recommendations for managing and attracting highly skilled persons and technopreneurs to work in the new knowledge economy.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010681374
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Achieving decent work by giving employment a human face
Budd, John W - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2004
Argues that achieving the ILO's decent work agenda requires that the conceptualization of employment be given a human … face. Giving employment a human face will generate a richer intellectual perspective in which work is rooted in broader …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010681383
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The construction sector in the People's Republic of China : policy analysis on sectoral development and employment challenges
Xiaoying, Qian; Hui, Zhao - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2004
Outlines the development of the construction sector in the period 1980-2001, e.g. the employment in collective-owned vs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010681392
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Offshoring and the internationalization of employment : a challenge for a fair globalization
Auer, Peter; Besse, Geneviève; Méda, Dominique - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2006
The paper presented three related issues. A first objective was to shed light on some of the facts of the employment … internationalization of employment. A third objective was to discuss the importance of international instruments that could help to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010681395
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Formación profesional en la negociación colectiva
Ermida Uriarte, Oscar; Rosenbaum Rímolo, Jorge - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1998
Focuses on the role of collective bargaining in strengthening vocational training in the 1990s in the context of globalization.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010633737