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This paper investigates the impact of offshoring on export performances of French, German and Italian automotive firms …. We argue that the different offshoring strategies run by the main European automakers are responsible for the … panel data analysis and show that offshoring strongly affect exports of automotive firms. Focussing on the French and German …
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With production activity tending rapidly towards international fragmentation, this study examines the consequences for labour countries of the forms of specialisation brought about by fragmentation processes. It further addresses the risk that fragmented sectors may become excluded from greater...
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composite goods from private firms. Such a policy unambiguously increases employment. It also raises private consumption and … employment, welfare and private consumption rise. We provide magnitudes for different parameter values. …
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This contribution aims at presenting a critical and synthetic overview of the researches done, since 1995, under the aegis of the "Transitional Labour Markets" current. In its first part, the survey focuses on the positive theoretical bases of this current. They come from diverse theories of the...
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dimensions. After explaining the empirical assumptions and laying the normative foundation, employment policy strategies …
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than it was in 1989. Last, the rate of self-employment has been falling gently in ISSP data; even so three to four times as … satisfied than are employees, one consistent interpretation of the above is that the barriers to self-employment have grown in …
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This paper uses household survey (Sakernas) data from 2004 to estimate the determinants of earnings in Indonesia, a country where non-salaried work is widespread and where earnings data are available for salaried employees only. We deal with the selection bias by estimating a full-information...
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While much has been made of the value of employment relative to unemployment, much less is known about the value of …
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La Déclaration des Droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen de 1789 affirme que "les Hommes naissent et demeurent libres et égaux en droit". Cependant, la discrimination, et notamment celle à l'embauche, est un phénomène courant. Des politiques de non-discrimination ont été créées au sein des...
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the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. From a theoretical point of view, higher progressivity induces a … wage-moderation e ect and increases overall employment since employment of low-paid workers is more responsive. We test … average wage, we show that a more progressive taxation reduces the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. These …
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