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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...

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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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Matching labor’s share in a search and matching model

Reicher, Christopher - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

I evaluate the degree to which different wage-setting mechanisms in labor market search models can fit the aggregate facts on labor’s share. I find that staggered bargaining in nominal wages best allows the model to plausibly match the negative relationship between labor’s share and lagged...

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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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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....

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The BioRegio-contest: a new approach to technology policy and its regional consequences

Dohse, Dirk - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998

German technology policy has undergone a remarkable change during the last years. The first thing to mention is that … technology policy in Germany takes a broader view now, focussing not only on knowledge creation (i.e. the invention process per … of regions as reference units for technology policy initiatives. The most prominent example is the BioRegio …

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The diffusion of innovations in the world textile industry: does a country's level of economic development matter?

Lücke, Matthias - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1995

This paper provides empirical evidence on how the international diffusion of industrial process innovations is affected by a country's level of economic development. It analyses annual data on newly installed machinery in the spinning and weaving industries, where open-end rotors and shuttleless...

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Corporate Social Responsibility in Global Supply Chains of Multinational Companies

Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife; Seric, Adnan - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015

This paper looks at the importance of CSR considerations in the decision taken by a foreign affiliate of a multinational company about the choice of local suppliers. We investigate this empirically using unique firm level data for more than 2,000 foreign owned firms in 19 Sub-Saharan African...

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Foreign ownership structure, technology upgrading and exports: Evidence from Chinese firms

Girma, Surafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger; Lancheros, … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

We examine the role of foreign ownership structure in stimulating technology and skill upgrading, and exporting in … owners and Chinese firms can contribute positively to China’s “science and technology take-off” …

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Multinational Firms, Exclusivity, and the Degree of Backward Linkages

Lin, Ping; Saggi, Kamal - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2005

This paper develops a two-tier oligopoly model in which the entry of a multinational firm results in technology … under which the multinational transfer technology to its suppliers who in turn agree to serve the multinational exclusively …

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