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dynamics of wages and unemployment under conditions of downward wage rigidity, where forward looking firms take into account …
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wage practices. We propose a simpler and more relevant approach – use matched employer/employee longitudinal data to … unemployment rate is one percentage point lower. Like most recent evidence on other aspects of wage cyclicality, our results …
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and highlighting the role of downward wage rigidity. These approaches clarify conflicting findings in the literature and …
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We present evidence about the role of rent sharing in fostering the interdependence of labour markets around the world. Our results draw on a firm-level panel of more than 2,000 multinationals and more than 5,000 of their affiliates, covering 47 home and host countries. We find considerable...
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until recently. We find that both formal employment and wage bills in the relevant sector fall, on average, by 2% – and by …
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This paper provides evidence about the effects of dismissals-for-cause requirements, aspecific component of employment protection legislation that has received little attentiondespite its potential relevance. We study a quasi-natural experiment generated by a lawintroduced in Portugal in 1989:...
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We investigate the relationship between exporting, importing, and wage premia using a richmatched employer … set of worker- and firm-levelobservable and unobservable characteristics to the wage gap, and (ii) by controlling for … firm size and sales are, todifferent extents, important components of the wage gap both for exporters and importers …
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employment and wage practices of foreign and domestic firms in Brazil, using detailed matched firm-worker panel data... …
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We investigate the relationship between exporting, importing, and wage premia using a rich matched employer … set of worker- and firm-level observable and unobservable characteristics to the wage gap, and (ii) by controlling for the … importers. While firm size and sales are, to different extents, important components of the wage gap both for exporters and …
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We contribute to the literature on Foreign Direct Investment and labour markets by examining wage differentials between … premium also does not vary monotonically with foreign control, it increases along the wage distribution and it is generally … insignificant when using propensity score matching. Finally, using differences-in-differences, we find lower wage growth for workers …
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