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Trade, Poverty and Employment: The Social Consequences of Integration with China

Castro, Lucio; Saslavsky, Daniel - EconWPA - 2005

, income distribution, welfare and employment. The case of Argentina, in particular, is investigated. To this end, partial … agreement with China on sectoral and aggregate employment rates. According to this, trade with the PRC did not have a … significant effect on industrial employment, even in a period of swift trade liberalization like the nineties. …

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Tango with the Dragon: Employment Effects of Trade Integration with China. The Case of Argentina

Castro, Lucio - EconWPA - 2005

This paper estimates the effects of trade integration between China and Mercosur on employment. The case of Argentina … labor demand elasticities in order to estimate the effects of trade with China on the employment rate. According to this …, trade with China did not have a significant effect on industrial employment, even in a period of swift trade liberalization …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408025

Unemployment, wages and collective bargaining in the European Union

Hein, Eckhard; Schulten, Thorsten - EconWPA - 2004

concluded that the current EU economic and employment policies aiming at further wage restraint, wage differentiation and … part of a growth and employment oriented coordination of macro-economic policies. …

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Economia sintetica

Vildosola, Luis - EconWPA - 1998

Theoretical study identifying one modality with conditions necesary for the financial stabilization of an inherently unstable system; and 5040 other unstable dynamic modes. It draws on knowledge made available by the academic field of Control Engineering.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125628

The Dark, and Independent, Side of the Italian Labour Market

Bovi, Maurizio - EconWPA - 2005

In many countries the shadow employment has a very high priority among policymakers. A new time series for this … the ineffectiveness of labour policies in converting black employment into regular one. …

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THE HIDDEN COSTS AND RETURNS OF INCENTIVES — TRUST AND TRUSTWORTHINESS AMONG CEOs

Fehr, Ernst; List, John A. - EconWPA - 2004

We examine experimentally how Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) respond to incentives and how they provide incentives in situations requiring trust and trustworthiness. As a control we compare the behavior of CEOs with the behavior of students. We find that CEOs are considerably more trusting and...

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Labour productivity growth and industry structure. The impact of industry structure on productivity growth, export prices and labour compensation.

Sinkkonen, Johanna - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper labour productivity growth and its impacts are studied at the industry level. The development of productivity is analysed in 54 industries in 14 EU countries and in the US between 1979 and 2001. The conclusion of the study is that the industry structure that leads to fast...

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Optimal Monitoring with External Incentives: The Case of Tipping

Azar, Ofer H. - EconWPA - 2003

The article examines the optimal choice of monitoring intensity when workers face external incentives (incentives that are not provided by the firm), such as tips, satisfaction from working well, or the desire to build reputation in order to be more attractive to other employers. Increase in...

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Some Deadweight Losses from the Minimum Wage: The Cases of Full and Partial Compliance

Palda, Filip - EconWPA - 2001

This paper highlights the social costs from non-price rationing of the labour force due to the minimum wage. By short-circuiting the ability of low reservation-wage workers to underbid high-reservation wage workers, the minimum wage interferes with the market's basic function of grouping the...

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Inside the Black Box of Temporary Help Agencies

Kvasnicka, Michael - EconWPA - 2003

Based on a new panel dataset created in close cooperation with one of the largest temporary help agencies (THAs) in Germany, this paper presents novel evidence on key aspects of temporary agency work, a segment of the labor market that despite its growing importance remains underresearched. In...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125786

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