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Bazillier, Rémi; Moullan, Yasser - HAL - 2012

We argue in this paper that labor market institutions, and more particularly employment protection (EPL), are an important determinant of migration. Using a bilateral migration database, we empirically show that the employment protection di fferential has a negative impact on bilateral ows....

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Labour Standards and Migration : do labour conditions matter ?

Bazillier, Rémi; Moullan, Yasser - HAL - 2009

We study in this paper the interactions between migration rates and the level of labour standards. We use an augmented version of the Grogger and Hanson (2008) model, adding the level of working conditions into the specification. Our hypothesis is that the differential of working conditions may...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738535

Labour Standards and Migration : do labour conditions matter ?

Bazillier, Rémi; Moullan, Yasser - HAL - 2009

We study in this paper the interactions between migration rates and the level of labour standards. We use an augmentee version of the Grogger and Hanson (2008) model, adding the level of working conditions into the specification. Our hypothesis is that the differential of working conditions may...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738548

How do Japanese and French firms in steel industry address the institutional change and the globalization? Employment adjustment and age management in a downsizing context

Lanciano, Emilie; Nitta, Michio - HAL - 2010

Steel industry has been engaged for a very long time in a downsizing process which has deeply transformed social and industrial relations, work and employment management. Once, these industry was owned and managed by big national groups (sometimes public) and employed a lot of workers at...

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The Outcome of NGOs' Activism in Developing Countries under Visibility Constraint

Fontagné, Lionel; Limardi, Michela - HAL - 2011

Many Developing Countries ratified ILO Fundamental Conventions and authorized local labour unions. Multinational companies producing in these countries pay more when NGOs campaigns take place and reputation counts. However, whether this external pressure from NGOs benefit local workers outside...

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Home Sweet Home? Macroeconomic Conditions in Home Countries and the Well-Being of Migrants

Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - HAL - 2014

-being responds negatively (positively) to an increase in the GDP (unemployment rate) of their home country. That is, we originally …

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The Local Determinants of Victimization

Hémet, Camille - HAL - 2013

neighborhood characteristics explain victimization better than individual characteristics. Second, I find that local unemployment … the precise localization of the data to adopt a spatial approach, comparing the effect of unemployment rate in the …

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Unemployment and finance: how do financial and labour market factors interact?

Gatti, Donatella; Vaubourg, Anne-Gaël - HAL - 2009

determine unemployment. We show that the impact of financial variables depends strongly on the labour market context. Increased … market capitalization as well as decreased banking concentration reduce unemployment if the level of labour market regulation … intermediated credit worsens unemployment when the labour market is weakly regulated and coordinated, whereas it reduces …

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The political economy of job protection and income redistribution

Amable, Bruno; Gatti, Donatella - HAL - 2005

This paper presents a model allowing to analyze voting, welfare institutions and economic performance. We consider a political economy framework with three classes of agents: entrepreneurs, employed workers and unemployed workers. Agents vote on alternative institutional options: the degree of...

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Initial reforms and dynamics of transition

Miniscloux, Ariane Tichit; Tanguy, Solenne - HAL - 2012

with a small one. Surprisingly, the end of transition is also characterized by lower unemployment when there are massive … layoffs - because in the short run, the high unemployment implied by the massive decrease makes job creation in the …

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