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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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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 the Public Sector Pay Review Bodies in the UK

Dolton, Peter; Makepeace, Gerry - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

This paper examines the impact of the Pay Review Bodies (PRBs) on the public sector pay of their remit groups. We compare the real weekly earnings of groups of workers in occupations covered by PRBs, in the remainder of the public sector and in the private sector using LFS data from 1993 to 2006...

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Use IT or Lose IT?The Impact of Computers on Earnings

Dolton, Peter; Makepeace, Gerry; Robinson, Helen - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

The extent to which the impact of computer skills depends on how computers are used isinvestigated using British data from an establishment survey, cohort studies and theEuropean E-Living survey...

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