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Matching labor’s share in a search and matching model
Reicher, Christopher - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011
negative relationship between labor’s share and lagged productivity growth and inflation. I also evaluate the role of labor …
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Wie privatisieren und wer privatisiert? Zur Erklärung der Wahl der Privatisierungsmethode und -organisation
Siegmund, Uwe - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1997
With this theoretical survey the thesis is put forward that the method of privatization as well as the structure of the … privatization agency is choosen by the politicians for politico-economic reasons, and not for reasons of saving transaction costs or … for reasons of ideological preferences. The method of privatization (auction, bargaining, giveaway) is the one that is …
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Offshoring and Labour Market Inequalities
Schwörer, Tillmann - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on labour market inequalities between skill groups based on German industry level data from 1995 to 2007. Our main findings are the following: First, offshoring is on average biased in favour of high-skilled employees and in disfavour of low-skilled...
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Sticky wages in search and matching models in the short and long run
Reicher, Christopher - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011
This paper documents the short run and long run behavior of the search and matching model with staggered Nash wage bargaining. It turns out that there is a strong tradeoff inherent in assuming that previously bargained sticky wages apply to new hires. If sticky wages apply to new hires, then the...
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Evaluating the performance of the search and matching model with sticky wages
Reicher, Christopher - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010
Several authors have proposed staggered wage bargaining as a way to introduce sticky wages into search and matching models while preserving individual rationality. I evaluate the quantitative implications of such an approach. I feed through a series of estimated shocks from US data into a search...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021626
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Can insider power affect employment?
Díaz-Vázquez, Pilar; Snower, Dennis J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2003
Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional answer in the theoretical literature is that insider power has no influence on employment, provided that the newly hired employees (entrants) receive their reservation wages....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010983128
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The wage premium of globalization: Evidence from European mergers and acquisitions
Oberhofer, Harald; Stöckl, Matthias; Winner, Hannes - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
We provide evidence on the impact of globalization on labor market outcomes analyzing pay differences between foreign-acquired and domestically-owned firms. For this purpose, we use firm level data from 16 European countries over the time period 1999-2006. Applying propensity score matching...
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FTA effects on agricultural trade with matching approaches
Lee, GaSeul; Lim, Song Soo - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015
While the trade effect of free trade agreements (FTAs) is a global issue, little research has examined the economic effects of trade liberalization on agricultural products with robust empirical methods. In this study, propensity score matching for controlling selection bias is used to examine...
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World Market Access of Emerging-Market Firms: the Role of Foreign Ownership and Access to External Finance
Raff, Horst; Trofimenko, Natalia - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
. Applying propensity score matching to control for differences across firms in terms of labor productivity, size, etc., we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886876
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Foreign Ownership and the Extensive Margins of Exports: Evidence for Manufacturing Enterprises in Germany
Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
, productivity and industry affiliation. These differences between foreign-owned firms and domestically controlled firms are highly …
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