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Minimum Wage Incidence: The Case for Germany
Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - CESifo - 2008
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765743
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Welfare Policy in the Presence of Unionised Labour and Internationally Mobile Firms
Rocha-Akis, Silvia; Schöb, Ronnie - CESifo - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534009
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Asymmetric Information Renders Minimum Wages Less Harmful
Schöb, Ronnie; Thum, Marcel - CESifo - 2009
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.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005000388
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Minimum Wages and their Alternatives: A Critical Assessment
Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - CESifo - 2008
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094296
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A Revealed Preference Approach to Understanding Corporate Governance Problems: Evidence from Canada
Chirinko, Robert S.; Schaller, Huntley - CESifo - 2002
By studying the gap between the discount rates used by executives and shareholders, we assess the extent to which governance problems distort firm behavior. The estimation strategy recovers discount rates used by executives from the pattern of their actual investment spending. Our empirical work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765749
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Fundamentals, Misvaluation, and Investment: The Real Story
Chirinko, Robert S.; Schaller, Huntley - CESifo - 2007
Is real investment fully determined by fundamentals or is it sometimes affected by stock market misvaluation? We introduce three new tests that: measure the reaction of investment to sales shocks for firms that may be overvalued; use Fama-MacBeth regressions to determine whether "overinvestment"...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766115
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Do Bubbles Lead to Overinvestment?: A Revealed Preference Approach
Chirinko, Robert S.; Schaller, Huntley - CESifo - 2011
Many economists believe that the stock market plays an important role in efficiently allocating capital to its most productive uses. This standard story of the stock market was called into question by events in the late 1990s, when some observers believed that stock market overvaluation – or a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009150640
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Outsourcing of Unionized Firms and the Impacts of Labour Market Policy Reforms
Koskela, Erkki; Schöb, Ronnie - CESifo - 2008
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181655