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Despite stringent dismissal restrictions in most European countries, rates of job creation and destruction are remarkably similar in European and Noeth American labor markets. This paper shows that relative-wage compression is conducive to higher employer-initiated job turnover, and argues that...
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The paper compares income inequality of households and individuals. Obviously, the latter is greater than the former; in fact households operate a broad redistribution of resources both between earners and non earners (children, unemployed, housewives), and between earners of unequal income....
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employment and wages from Italian provinces from 1993-2006. We adopt a production function approach similar to that of Card and … necessarily displace male employment. …
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temporary employment …
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labour costs. Efficient design of these policies requires knowledge of the costs associated with employment protection …-ended worker in the range of 1.3-2.8 per cent. This result helps to explain recent employment growth in Italy, where the share of … cent. Given the elasticity of employment to wages, the advent of flexibility in the Italian labour market can account for a …
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A long-standing economic tradition maintains that labour supply reacts to market tightness; its sensitivity to job quality has received less attention. If firms hire workers with both temporary and open-end contracts, does participation increase when more permanent jobs are available? We...
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the likelihood of transiting from wage-and-salary to self-employment. Finally, there is no evidence of higher district …
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presents some empirical evidence on the effects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on firms� productivity with … the model proposed by Harrison, Jaumandreu, Mairesse and Peters (2005), which separates employment growth rates into those … associated with old and new products, we provide robust evidence that there is no employment displacement effect stemming from …
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