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Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Sectoral and Macroeconomic Perspectives for Germany, the EU and the US

Irawan, Tony; Welfens, Paul J. J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

The EU and the US have started negotiations on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement (TTIP) which could bring a considerable increase of exports and output as well as changes in the composition of output and employment. Thus export simulation studies in combination with...

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Becker Meets Ricardo: Multisector Matching with Social and Cognitive Skills

McCann, Robert J.; Shi, Xianwen; Siow, Aloysius; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

communicate and coordinate at lower resource cost. The theory delivers full task specialization in the labor and education markets …

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Unemployment in East and West Europe

Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

In this paper, we use 1991-2005 panel data on the unemployed, vacancies, inflow into unemployment, and outflow from unemployment in five former communist economies and in the western part of Germany (a benchmark western economy) to examine the evolution of unemployment together with that of...

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Returns to Human Capital under the Communist Wage Grid and During the Transition to a Market Economy

Munich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new micro data on men to estimate returns to human capital under the communist wage grid and during the transition to a market economy. We use data from the Czech Republic because it...

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Immigrants and Unemployment in the European Community: From the Eyes of Natives

Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-Su - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

labor markets among citizens of the European Community. It provides the results of probit equations estimating the … labor markets. The estimates show a statistically significant, but weak, negative connection between the concentration of … foreigners in a local labor market and the likelihood of employment among European citizens residing in that labor market. The …

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Labor Market Effects of Intrauterine Exposure to Nutritional Deficiency: Evidence from Administrative Data on Muslim Immigrants in Denmark

Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise; Tekin, Erdal; Greve, Jane - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

individual's labor market productivity later in life. We consider intrauterine exposure to the month of Ramadan as a natural … administrative data from Denmark to investigate the impact of exposure to Ramadan in utero on labor market outcomes of adult Muslim … poor labor market outcomes later in life. Specifically, exposure to Ramadan in the 7th month of gestation results in a …

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