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in Germany, on employment, wage inequality, public expenditures, and incomes of poor households: 1) a statutory minimum … subsidies, the government can ensure more favorable employment and income effects. Combining a minimum wage with a wage subsidy …
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We show that a minimum wage introduced in the presence of asymmetric information about worker productivities will lead to lower unemployment levels than predicted by the standard labour market model with heterogeneous labour and symmetric information.
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In oligopolistic industries, increased cost saving opportunities via offshoring have a moderating effect on trade unions. In order to discourage mobile firms from leaving the country, unions accept lower sector wages. In effect, the negotiated wage becomes independent of workers’ bargaining...
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affects employment, wage inequality, public expenditures, and aggregate income in the low-wage sector. It is shown that a … employment – depending on the subsidies’ incidence – and income effects. Wage subsidies also allow a more equal income …
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We offer a unified framework to analyze the determination of employment, employee effort, wages, profit-sharing and … offset the negative dilution effect in equilibrium. Leverage is shown to decrease employment and to have a strategic …
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the share of the outsourced workforce is not too large, this wage-moderation effect on domestic employment outweighs the … direct substitution effect so that domestic employment increases in unionized firms as outsourcing costs fall. This does not … for employment. However, except for low outsourcingactivities, the impact of these policy measures will become smaller as …
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