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can choose between employment and overtime (given mandated standard hours). Contrary to this approach, we consider the … impact of uncertainty and real options on the decision of working time, i.e. we examines the determinants of employment and …
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, administrative matched employer-employee data. The distributional analysis is then conducted by transposing predicted employment …
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In Germany, the employment response to the post-2007 crisis has been muted compared to other industrialized countries …. Despite a large drop in output, employment has hardly changed. In this paper, we analyze the determinants of German firms … of works councils. Second, on the basis of these estimates, we use the difference between predicted and actual employment …
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The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s … percent. We examine whether relatively standard wage and employment equations can account for the volatile economic … demand equations suggest that cuts in working time may have slightly increased employment as firms substituted workers for …
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We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through … adjustment costs that are highly unevenly distributed across workers according to their skill levels and conditions of employment …
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It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To …
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affect employment. Our strategy detects salient adjustments at the extensive margin for German MNEs. With every percentage …
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compare the empirical relevance of search-matching theory to efficiency wage and bargaining theories, where employment is …
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Using data for German and Swedish multinational enterprises (MNEs), this paper assesses international employment … country, affiliate employment tends to substitute for employment at the parent firm. On the margin, substitutability is the … strongest with respect to affiliate employment in Western Europe. A one percent larger wage gap between Germany and locations in …
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employment like labour costs and productivity, the skill level of the population, and demography. Considering that ownership may … be endogenous to (shocks in) employment, we use IV estimation methods. Overall, we find evidence in favour of the Oswald … significant fall in the employment rate by about 0.3 percentage points. Our results underscore the importance of including other …
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