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Buhai, Sebastian; Portela, Miguel; Teulings, Coen N.; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

firm with stochastic product demand and hiring cost (= irreversible specific investments). There is wage bargaining between …

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Dismissals for Cause:The Difference That Just Eight Paragraphs Can Make

Martins, Pedro S. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

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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The Labor Market in the Great Recession: An Update

Elsby, Michael W.L.; Hobijn, Bart; Sahin, Aysegul; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

Since the end of the Great Recession in mid-2009, the unemployment rate has recovered slowly, falling by only one percentage point from its peak. We find that the lackluster labor market recovery can be traced in large part to weakness in aggregate demand; only a small part seems attributable to...

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Unemployment Dynamics in the OECD

Elsby, Michael W.L.; Hobijn, Bart; Sahin, Aysegul - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

We provide a set of comparable estimates for the rates of inflow to and outflow fromunemployment using publicly available data for fourteen OECD economies. We thendevise a method to decompose changes in unemployment into contributions accountedfor by changes in inflow and outflow rates for cases...

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Why Ex(Im)porters Pay More:Evidence from Matched Firm-Worker Panels

Martins, Pedro S.; Opromolla, Luca David - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

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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Foreign Ownership, Employment and Wages in Brazi l: Evidence from Acquisitions, Divestments and Job Movers

Martins, Pedro S.; Esteves, Luiz A. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

employment and wage practices of foreign and domestic firms in Brazil, using detailed matched firm-worker panel data... …

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The Impact of Workplace Conditions on Firm Performance

Buhai, Sebastian; Cottini, Elena; Westergård-Nielsen, Niels - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

production functions augmented with work environment indicators and aggregate employee characteristics and ii) firm mean wage …

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A Social Network Analysis of Occupational Segregation

Buhai, Sebastian; Leij, Marco van der - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

This paper proposes a simple social network model of occupational segregation, generated by the existence of inbreeding bias among individuals of the same social group. If network referrals are important in getting a job, then expected inbreeding bias in the social structure results in different...

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