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This paper uses panel data from 1989 to 1995 on blue-collar workers in Finnish manufacturing industries and their establishments to assess the extent to which hours of work are affected by individual or establishment characteristics - observed as well as unobserved. We argue that recent research...
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Using a recently developed model which allows to separate a few well- established employment effects of product and … process innovations, this paper reports new results on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in Germany …. The model is tailor-made for analysing firm-level employment effects of innovations using specific information provided by …
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Skill and Australia’s Productivity Surge examines the changing demand for skills and the effect of increased skill on … the skill of the workforce. …
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been a shift toward employment of skilled workers in Australia, as well as in many other industrialised economies. While it … paper shows other factors are at work. Changing employment patterns are more closely associated with a pull toward skilled …
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This paper provides an assessment of employment and working conditions in Latvia before and immediately after the EU … accession. The issues addressed include self-employment, multiple jobs, fixed-term contracts, unreported wages, overtime …
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Do employers and workers underbid prevailing wages if there is unemployment? Do employers take advantage of workers’ underbidding by lowering wages? We hypothesize that under conditions of incomplete labor contracts wage levels may positively affect workers’ propensity to cooperate. This, in...
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This paper investigates the relationship between bilateral FDI positions and cross-country business cycle correlations in the period 1982–2001. We find that countries that have comparatively intensive FDI relations also have more synchronized business cycles during 1995–2001. Before 1995, we...
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churning flows reduce employment growth. …
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