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The Rise and Fall of Swiss Unemployment
Puhani, Patrick A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
Switzerland, traditionally a ‘zero unemployment’ economy, has seen an unprecedented rise in joblessness in the 1990s although unemployment fell again to a rather low level after 1997. This Paper tests whether Switzerland experienced a negative relative net demand shock against the low...
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Services offshoring and wages: Evidence from micro data
Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual-level data combined with industry information on offshoring for the United Kingdom. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low- and medium-skilled individuals negatively. By contrast,...
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Who Gains when Workers Train? Training and Corporate Productivity in a Panel of British Industries
Dearden, Lorraine; Reed, Howard; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
There is a vast empirical literature on the effects of training on wages that are taken as an indirect measure of productivity. This paper is part of a smaller literature on the effects of training on direct measures of industrial productivity. We analyse a panel of British industries between...
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Native Wage Impacts of Foreign Labour: A Random Effects Panel Analysis
Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993
Natives often fear that competition from foreigners in labour markets will cause wages to fall and unemployment to rise. These effects might actually be realized if natives and immigrants were substitutes. If they are complements, however, the result might be rather different. This paper...
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'Actual' versus 'Virtual' Employment in Europe: Is Spain Different?
Marimon, Ramon; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
We study the evolution of sectoral employment and labour cost in 11 European countries over the last two decades. Our statistical approach consists of decompositions for country, industry and temporal effects. Virtual economies are constructed by filtering country effects. We find that sectoral...
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Wage and Mobility Effects of Trade and Migration
Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
The paper investigates the relative importance of trade and immigration for earnings and job mobility of male German workers. Using panel data, changes of workplace within a firm and between firms are separated from occupational changes. Various subgroups are investigated, differentiating...
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Wage Differentials in the 1990s in Israel: Endowments, Discrimination and Selectivity
Neuman, Shoshana; Oaxaca, Ronald L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
The purpose of this Paper is to investigate wage structures of professional workers in the Israeli labour market, using data from the most recent 1995 Census and correcting for selectivity at the stage of entrance into the occupation. The sample of professionals is decomposed into several...
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Intermittent Employment: Work Histories of Israeli Men and Women, 1983-1995
Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
, breakdowns are provided by ethnic origin, marital status, age and education level. While most of the results are both expected …
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Age, wage and productivity
Stoeldraijer, Lenny; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find … that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while … productivity does not or does not increase at the same pace. However, other studies find no evidence of such an age related pay …
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Run For Fun: Intrinsic Motivation and Physical Performance
Filippin, Antonio; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
teams and run for an hour. This allows us not only to study the individual relationship between age and performance but also … performance goes down with age, although the speed-age gradient is rather flat. Group performance goes down with age as well, but …
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