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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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Product Market Competition and Trade Union Structure

Beniers, Klaas J.; Dur, Robert A.J. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003

Trade unions tend to reduce the dispersion of wages among their members. Skilled workers may therefore have an incentive to separate from an encompassing union and organize into a separate craft union. In this paper, we examine a theoretical model to gain insight into the determinants of the...

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Signaling and Screening of Workers' Motivation

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A.J. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

when workers’ motivation is private information. While posting a higher wage increases the probability of filling the … optimal wage scheme entails a trade-off between the probability of filling the vacancy, the rents left to the worker, and the …

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Are Education Subsidies an Efficient Redistributive Device?

Dur, Robert A.J.; Teulings, Coen N. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003

We argue that promoting education may be a means to reduceincome inequality. When workers of different skill levels areimperfect substitutes in production, an increase in the level ofhuman capital in the economy reduces the return to education.Hence, a given compression of after-tax incomes can...

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