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Melitz, Jacques - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

The significance of a common language in foreign trade hinges on translation as well as the ability to communicate directly. In fact, without admitting the facility of translation from one or two selected languages, it is impossible to explain adequately the impact of a common language on...

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Foreign Languages and Trade

Fidrmuc, Jan; Fidrmuc, Jarko - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Cultural factors and especially common languages are well-known determinants of trade. By contrast, the knowledge of foreign languages was not explored in the literature so far. We combine traditional gravity models with data on fluency in the main languages used in EU and candidate countries....

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Competition And Firm Performance: Lessons From Russia

Brown, J David; Earle, John S - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

data on 14,961 enterprises covering 75 percent of industrial employment, emphasizing the varied sources, geographic scope …

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Globalization and the Provision of Incentives Inside the Firm

Cuñat, Vicente; Guadalupe, Maria - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper studies the effect of changes in foreign competition on the incentives faced by U.S. managers in the form of wage structures, promotion profiles, and job turnover. We use a panel of executives and measure foreign competition as import penetration. Using tariffs and exchange rates as...

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Government Distributional Concerns and Economic Policy During the Transition from Socialism

Gordon, Roger H; Li, David Daokui - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

Before the transition governments had strong distributional objectives, which they pursued mainly by direct controls over state enterprise wage rates and hiring decisions, yielding a highly compressed wage distribution. During the reform they maintained similar controls over state enterprises,...

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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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Product Market Competition, Returns to Skill and Wage Inequality

Guadalupe, Maria - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper shows that increasing product market competition can have a direct impact on the employment relationship and …

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Unions And The Labour Market For Managers

Dinardo, John; Hallock, Kevin F; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

We examine the relationship between the employment and compensation of managers and CEOs and the presence of a … firm. Unions, by redistributing rents towards the workers, lead to lower employment and lower pay for managers. Using a … variety of data sets, we examine the implications of the model for the relationship between the employment and wages of …

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Relative Wage Effects of German Unions

Schmidt, Christoph M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

composition of German employment has changed dramatically during the last decade to include more women, more young and more …

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Does the welfare state make older workers unemployable?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

for employment protection, provided it is uniform across workers and not specifically higher for older workers. It …

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