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Trade and Labor Reallocation with Heterogeneous Enforcement of Labor Regulations
Almeida, Rita K.; Poole, Jennifer P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
. We explore the fact that plants face varying degrees of exposure to global markets and to the enforcement of labor market … administrative data on employers matched to their employees and on the enforcement of labor regulations at the city level over Brazil … regulations, that after a trade shock, plants facing stricter enforcement of the labor law decrease job creation and increase job …
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Family Ties
Alesina, Alberto; Giuliano, Paola - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We study the role of the most primitive institution in society: the family. Its organization and relationship between generations shape values formation, economic outcomes and influences national institutions. We use a measure of family ties, constructed from the World Values Survey, to review...
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The Economics of Labor Market Intermediation: An Analytic Framework
Autor, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Labor Market Intermediaries (LMIs) are entities or institutions that interpose themselves between workers and firms to facilitate, inform, or regulate how workers are matched to firms, how work is accomplished, and how conflicts are resolved. This paper offers a conceptual foundation for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822049
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Trade and Unemployment: What Do the Data Say?
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Prat, Julien; Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper documents a robust empirical regularity: in the long-run, higher trade openness is causally associated to a lower structural rate of unemployment. We establish this fact using: (i) panel data from 20 OECD countries, (ii) cross-sectional data on a larger set of countries. The time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005030877
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The Brain Drain: Curse or Boon?
Commander, Simon; Kangasniemi, Mari; Winters, L. Alan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
The migration of skilled individuals from developing countries has typically been considered to be costly for the sending country, due to lost investments in education, high fiscal costs and labour market distortions. Economic theory, however, raises the possibility of a beneficial brain drain...
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Why Ex(Im)porters Pay More: Evidence from Matched Firm-Worker Panels
Martins, Pedro S.; Opromolla, Luca David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We investigate the relationship between exporting, importing, and wage premia using a rich matched employer-employee data set. We improve on the previous literature (i) by using a new methodology to quantify the contribution of an extensive set of worker- and firm-level observable and...
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The Impact of Globalization and Technology Transfer on Manufacturing Employment and Skills in Ethiopia
Haile, Getinet Astatike; Srour, Ilina; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
countries (LDCs) embarking on globalization, which enhances the prospect of direct technological imports or embodied … played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010723562
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Globalization and Income Inequality
Vivarelli, Marco; Meschi, Elena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper discusses the distributive consequences of trade flows in developing countries (DCs). On the theoretical side, we argue that the interplays between international openness and technology adoption may constitute an important mechanism leading to a possible increase of income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822668
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Labor Market and Globalization: A Comparison of the Latin American and the East Asian Experiences in the 1980s and 1990s
Bruno, Randolph Luca - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
In this paper we analyse the labor market and its relationship with globalization in two groups of countries similar in …. It is argued that the Latin American group adopted pro-globalization policies too quickly and without an adequate social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008557219
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Gender Differences in Shirking: Monitoring or Social Preferences? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Johansson, Per; Karimi, Arizo; Nilsson, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper studies gender differences in the extent to which social preferences affect workers' shirking decisions. Using exogenous variation in work absence induced by a randomized field experiment that increased treated workers' absence, we find that also non-treated workers increased their...
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