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Trade and Unions: Can Exporters Benefit from Collective Bargaining?
Capuano, Stella; Hauptmann, Andreas; Schmerer, Jans-Jörg - CESifo - 2014
Unions are often stigmatized as being a source of inefficiency due to higher collective bargaining outcomes. This is in stark contrast with the descriptive evidence presented in this paper. Larger firms choose to export and are also more likely to adopt collective bargaining. We rationalize...
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The Minimum Wage from a Two-Sided Perspective
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis - CESifo - 2014
This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms’ job offer and workers’ job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show...
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L’Emploi, le Chômage et les Conditions d’Activité en République Démocratique du Congo : Principaux résultats de la phase 1 de l’Enquête 1-2-3 2004-2005
Makabu Ma Nkenda, Thimotée; Mba, Martin; Torelli, Constance - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2007
characteristics of employment and unemployment in the country. This study, which presents the principal results of the survey, helps …
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Le marché du travail en République Démocratique du Congo en 2012 : Principaux résultats de la Phase 1 de l’Enquête 1-2-3
Kankwanda, Grégoire; Makabu Ma Nkenda, Timothée; … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014
detailed picture of the main characteristics of employment and unemployment in the country. This study, which presents the …
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Unemployment, Growth and Speed of Transition in China
Fidrmuc, Jan; Huang, Shuo - CESifo - 2013
We investigate the relationship between unemployment and growth in China. We find considerable differences in the … find a hump-shaped relationship between unemployment and our proxy for the speed of reform. The current unemployment in …
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Unemployment and Endogenous Reallocation over the Business Cycle
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Visschers, Ludo - CESifo - 2013
unemployment and its underlying duration distribution. We develop an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic … equilibrium model with heterogenous labor markets. In this model three different types of unemployment arise: search, rest and … reallocation unemployment. We document new evidence on unemployed workers’ gross occupational mobility and use it to calibrate the …
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Minimum Wages, Capital Accumulation and Worker's Incomes
Economides, George; Moutos, Thomas - CESifo - 2014
Using an intertemporal model of saving and capital accumulation we demonstrate that it is impossible for any binding minimum wage to increase the after-tax incomes of workers if the production function is Cobb-Douglas with constant returns to scale, or if there are no differences in ability...
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The Determinants of Retirement: the crucial impact of the last occupation.
El Mekkaoui de Freitas, Najat; Duc, Cindy - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2011
Understanding the changes that occur in employment patterns as people grow older and the paths they take from employment to retirement may help to apprehend the factors that encourage or discourage employment retention. The aims of this paper are to analyse the process leading up to retirement...
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Cash-on-Hand and the Duration of Job Search: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Norway
Basten, Christoph; Fagereng, Andreas; Telle, Kjetil - CESifo - 2012
We identify the causal effect of lump-sum severance payments on non-employment duration in Norway by exploiting a discontinuity in eligibility at age 50. We find that a severance payment worth 1.2 months’ earnings at the median lowers the fraction re-employed after a year by seven percentage...
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Minimum Wages as a Redistributive Device in the Long Run
Economides, George; Moutos, Thomas - CESifo - 2014
This paper analyzes long run outcomes resulting from adopting a binding minimum wage in a neoclassical model with perfectly competitive labour markets and capital accumulation. The model distinguishes between workers of heterogeneous ability and capitalists who do all the saving, and it entails...
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