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Wage Growth, Productivity Growth, and the Evolution of Employment

Hellwig, Martin F; Irmen, Andreas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper studies the impact of wage growth on the evolution of employment in an intertemporal general … is the common growth rate of consumption, demand, and output. In these steady-state equilibria employment contracts at a … equality of wage growth and productivity growth is a condition for constant employment. …

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Structural Reforms and Growth: Product and Labor Market Deregulations

Eijffinger, Sylvester C W; Rossi, Alberto - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

The paper focuses on labor and product market deregulations, as fundamental elements in the passage from an investment to an innovation-based economy. The approach undertaken is prominently empirical. After a very brief description of the regulatory levels on the two sides of the Atlantic, we...

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EU Enlargement under Continued Mobility Restrictions: Consequences for the German Labor Market

Brenke, Karl; Yuksel, Mutlu; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

The numbers of migrants from the accessions countries have clearly increased since the enlargement of the EU in 2004. Following enlargement, the net inflow of EU8 immigrants has become 2.5 times larger than the four-year period before enlargement. Poles constitute the largest immigrant group...

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Can Insider Power Affect Employment?

Diaz-Vazquez, Pilar; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional … answer in the theoretical literature is that insider power has no influence on employment, provided that the newly hired … firing in recessions, while leaving hiring in booms unchanged. Thereby insider power reduces average employment. …

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The impact of trade liberalization on manufacturing employment and wages in Egypt 1990-2007

Said, Mona; Elshennawy, Abeer - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper explores the impact of trade liberalization on manufacturing employment and wages over a period 1993-2006, a …, the paper shows that employment has increased across all manufacturing industries. Data from Egypt’s labor market survey …

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Economic crisis and the role of state policies in current globalized economy. The case of Greece

Kapitsinis, Nikolaos; Metaxas, Theodore - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

economy in the middle of 2008. Crisis affects negatively almost all the fields of human life like development, employment …

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The economics of Communist Party membership - The Curious case of rising numbers and wage premium during China’s transition

Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Knight, John; Xia, Qingjie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Why is it that, as the Chinese Communist Party has loosened its grip, abandoned its core beliefs, and marketized the economy, its membership has risen markedly along with the economic benefits of joining? We use three national household surveys, spanning eleven years, to answer this question...

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On wage formation, wage flexibility and wage coordination : A focus on the wage impact of productivity in Germany, Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and the United States

Peeters, Marga; Den Reijer, Ard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper discusses the endeavours of policy makers to come to some degree of wage coordination among EU countries, aiming at aligning wage growth with labour productivity growth at the national levels. In this context, we analyse the wage and productivity developments in Germany, the European...

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The impact of immigration on the labour market: Evidence from 20 years of cross-border migration to Argentina

Battiston, Diego - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper studies the effects of immigration on the wages of Argentinean native workers over the period 1993-2012. I use a novel micro-dataset which combines household surveys from Argentina and six other Latin American countries. Immigration from these six countries accounts for 95% of the...

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