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Offshoring and Job Stability: Evidence from Italian Manufacturing
Lo Turco, Alessia; Maggioni, Daniela; Picchio, Matteo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We study the relationship between offshoring and job stability in Italy in the period 1995–2001 by using an … stability. Service offshoring and material purchases from developed countries foster job-to-job transitions within manufacturing … material offshoring to low income countries which drives blue collar workers out of manufacturing. Therefore, policy …
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Offshoring, Wages and Job Security of Temporary Workers
Görg, Holger; Görlich, Dennis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular …. Data are taken from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), linked with industry-level data on offshoring of materials and … significant reduction in wages as materials offshoring increases, while permanent workers' wages are unaffected or even tend to …
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Incentive Pay and Performance: Insider Econometrics in a Multi-Unit Firm
Bogaard, Hein; Svejnar, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We exploit organizational reforms in a foreign-owned bank in Central-East Europe to study the implementation of modern HRM policies in an emerging market context. We have branch-level data and use our knowledge of the process that led to the adoption of the reforms to implement two estimators...
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Returns to Skills and the Speed of Reforms: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe, China, and Russia
Fleisher, Belton M.; Sabirianova, Klara; Wang, Xiaojun - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
We explore the pace of increase in returns to schooling during the transition from planning to market over time across a number of Central and Eastern European countries, Russia, and China. We use metadata from 33 studies of 10 transition economies covering a period from 1975 through 2002. Our...
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Gender Equality in Educational Achievement: An East-West Comparison
Viola, SchnepfSylke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Data on educational access show gender parity of pupils attending primary and secondary schools in transition countries. The first aim of this analysis is to examine whether the gender balance in educational access translates also into gender equality in educational achievement. There are...
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Corruption, Networking and Foreign Ownership: Recent Evidence from CEE Countries
Pal, Sarmistha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The present paper argues that the effect of corruption on foreign ownership is not necessarily linear and depends on the level of host corruption. So long as the expected returns from foreign investments exceed its expected costs, higher host corruption will be associated with higher foreign...
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Mind the Gap: Unemployment in the New EU Regions
Ferragina, Anna Maria; Pastore, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
The paper surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on regional unemployment during transition in Central and Eastern Europe. The focus is on Optimal Speed of Transition (OST) models and on comparison of them with the neoclassical tradition. In the typical neoclassical models, spatial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761820
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Exchange Rate Volatility and Employment Growth: Empirical Evidence from the CEE Economies
Belke, Ansgar; Setzer, Ralph - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
According to the traditional 'optimum currency area' approach, not much will be lost from a very hard peg to a currency union if there has been little reason for variations in the exchange rate. This paper takes a different approach and highlights the fact that high exchange rate volatility may...
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New Labour? The Impact of Migration from Central and Eastern European Countries on the UK Labour Market
Lemos, Sara; Portes, Jonathan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
The UK was one of only three countries that granted free movement of workers to accession nationals following the enlargement of the European Union in May 2004. The resulting large, rapid and concentrated migration inflow can be seen as a natural experiment that arguably corresponds closely to...
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Ethnic Discrimination in China's Internet Job Board Labor Market
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We conduct a large‐scale field experiment to investigate how Chinese firms respond to job applications from ethnic minority and Han applicants for jobs posted on a large Chinese Internet job board. We denote ethnicity by means of names that are typically Han Chinese and distinctively...
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