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Firm Entry Deregulation, Competition and Returns to Education and Skill
Fernandes, Ana; Ferreira, Priscila; Winters, L. Alan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
This paper investigates the effects of firm entry deregulation. We exploit a recent reform that simplified business entry in Portugal as a quasi-natural experiment. We use cross-municipality-year variation in the implementation of the reform for identification. Using matched employer-employee...
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Ten Years of Mrs. T.
Bean, Charles R; Symons, James - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1989
We argue that the 1970s were characterized by attempts to maintain a cooperative, low unemployment equilibrium in the …, explains the initial rise in unemployment. The reduction in union power also helps to explain the acceleration in productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504742
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Returns to Education across Europe
Glocker, Daniela; Steiner, Viktor - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
the indirect wage effect resulting from lower unemployment risks and shorter spells in unemployment associated with higher … accounting for the effects of unemployment on individual wages using EU-SILC data. Across countries we find a high variation of … the effect of education on unemployment duration. Overall, the returns to education are estimated to be the highest in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293660
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The Aggregate Labour Market Effects of the Swedish Knowledge Lift Program
Albrecht, James; den Berg, Gerard J van; Vroman, Susan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997--2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of low-skill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labour market outcomes. This is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123553
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Imperfect Labour Markets, the Stock Market and the Inefficiency of Capitalism
Manning, Alan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1989
In a capitalist economy capitalists can sell their stake in a firm on the stock market whereas workers cannot sell their jobs. It is argued that when workers have some bargaining power this asymmetry in property rights leads to inefficiencies. The consequences of this are explored and certain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662149
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The Pit and the Pendulum: Arbitration in the British Coal Industry, 1893-1914
Treble, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1989
In this paper, we construct a game form based on the constitutions of conciliation boards in the British coal industry and show how the induced game can be used to explain certain features of the wage negotiations for which the conciliation boards were responsible. In particular, we test various...
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Real and Nominal Wage Rigidities and the Rate of Inflation: Evidence from West German Microdata
Bauer, Thomas; Bonin, Holger; Sunde, Uwe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
the opposite holds for nominal rigidity. Overall, the incidence of wage rigidity, which accelerates unemployment growth …
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Real Origins of the Great Depression: Monopolistic Competition, Union Power, and the American Business Cycle in the 1920s
Ebell, Monique; Ritschl, Albrecht - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Most treatments of the Great Depression have focused on its onset and its aftermath. In contrast, we take a unified view of the interwar period. We look at the slide into and the emergence from the 1920-21 recession and the roaring 1920s boom, as well as the slide into the Great Depression after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005497733
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The Causes of Post-War Slumps and Miracles. An Evaluation of Olsonian Views on German Economic Performance in the 1920s and the 1950s
Paqué, Karl-Heinz - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
provide evidence for the theory (first advanced by Mancur Olson) that sharp institutional breaks are conducive to economic … that were not substantially more encompassing than before in the sense of Olson's theory. The paper proposes an alternative …
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Regret and Jubilation in Union Wage Bargaining
Beenstock, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987
A theoretical model of collective wage bargaining is developed in which unions set wages and employers decide employment. A novel feature of the model is that the conventional expected utility calculus is replaced by one in which regret from failed wage bargains and jubilation from successful...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005497944