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Do Frictions Matter in the Labor Market?Accessions, Separations and Minimum Wage Effects
Dube, Arindrajit; Lester, T. William; Reich, Michael - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
negative effects on employment flows, but not levels. Separations and accessions fallamong restaurants and teens, especially …
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Excess Turnover and Employment Growth:Firm and Match Heterogeneity
Centeno, Mário; Machado, Carla; Novo, Alvaro A. - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
,large firms adjust their employment levels by reducing entry and not by increasingseparations. Most hires and separations are on … fixed-term contracts and shrinking firmsreplace a larger share of their separations under fixed-term contracts, while … expanding firmsreplace most of the separations under open-ended contracts. The comparison with the U.S.shows that while worker …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360616
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Information and Communication Technologiesand Skill Upgrading:The Role of Internal vs. External Labour Markets
Behaghel, Luc; Caroli, Eve; Walkowiak, Emmanuelle - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
Following the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT), firms are likelyto face increasing skill requirements. They may react either by training or hiring the newskills, or by a combination of both. We first show that ICT are indeed skill biased and we thenassess the relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360544
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Returns for Entrepreneurs vs. Employees: The Effectof Education and Personal Control on the RelativePerformance of Entrepreneurs vs. Wage Employees
Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’?What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples’ occupationalchoices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor forceparticipants. We show that education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360612
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Labor Disputes and Labor Flows
Fraisse, Henri; Kramarz, Francis; Prost, Corinne - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
About one in four workers challenges her dismissal in front of a labor court in France. Using adata set of individual labor disputes brought to French courts over the years 1996 to 2003,we examine the impact of labor court activity on labor market flows. First, we present asimple theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360526
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The Role of Profit Sharing in a Dual Labour Marketwith Flexible Outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
We analyze the following questions associated with flexible outsourcing under partlyimperfect dual domestic labour markets, where high skilled workers participate in firm’s profitvia profit sharing: How does the implementation of profit sharing influence flexibleoutsourcing? What is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009418921
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Labour Market Institutions and Unemployment:Does Finance Matter?
Rault, Christophe; Vaubourg, Anne-Gael - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
We explore whether finance influences the impact of labour market institutions onunemployment. Using a data set of 18 OECD countries over 1980-2004, we estimate a panelVectorAutoRegressive model. We check whether causalities from labour market variables tounemployment are affected by financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360534
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Manufacturing Employment and Exchange Ratesin the Portuguese Economy: The Role ofOpenness, Technology and Labour Market Rigidity
Alexandre, Fernando; Bação, Pedro; Cerejeira, João; … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
In this paper, we explore empirically the role of openness, technology and labour marketrigidity in the determination of the effect of the exchange rate on employment in Portugal. Wedevelop an index that allows us to measure labour market flexibility at the sector level. Thisindex shows that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360573
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Profit Sharing, Wage Formation and FlexibleOutsourcing under Labor Market Imperfection
Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
We combine profit sharing and outsourcing, if the wage for worker is decided by a labor unionto analyze how does the implementation of profit sharing affect individual effort and thebargained wage and thus outsourcing? We find that profit sharing and the wage level havean individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360604
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How Does Entry Regulation Infl uence Entry intoSelf-Employment and Occupational Mobility?
Prantl, Susanne; Spitz-Oener, Alexandra Emmi - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
We analyze how an entry regulation that imposes a mandatory educational standard affectsentry into self-employment and occupational mobility. We exploit the German reunification asa natural experiment and identify regulatory effects by comparing differences betweenregulated occupations and...
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