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with theory, overtime plants showed a significant positive employment response, whilst for standard-time plants there is no … substitution of workers by hours, there may also be a positive employment effect due to reduced costs. Moreover, the response of … analyse the effect of increased standard hours on employment. Using difference-in-difference methods we find that, consistent …
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To account for employment evolutions at the macro-economic level, we propose a modelling where employment is explained … by added value, working time and real labour cost. Estimations using quarterly French macro-economic data are carried out … in a multivariate framework for three sets of sectors. We get a relationship in which employment rises with growth and …
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-2010. Those with higher levels of creatine (proxied by urine creatinine) prior to labour market entry spend more time in the …
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including who should choose the number of temporary immigrants and under what employment conditions. This paper offers an …
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suggest that immigration exhibits negative effects on native employment and wages, and has no effects on total employment …. Imports affect employment negatively and exports have a positive effect on wages. The German results indicate that immigration … and trade is not harming employment and wages. Natives seem to be complements to migrants, at least to those from East …
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France has experienced massive changes in its regulation of working time during the last decade. These changes generate …
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with particular emphasis on industrial relations, wage setting, unemployment benefits, employment protection and vocational … standard vs. non-standard contracts. Whereas internal flexibility via shorter working time was a dominant mode of adjustment …
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working hours. When effortbased career opportunities are effective, they raise working time and output per worker reducing … promotion increases with working time and that this result is robust to various econometric specifications. …
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Based largely on industry-level aggregate statistics, the prevailing view, and one that has strongly influenced macroeconomic thought, is that real wages during the cycle containing the Great Depression are either acyclical or countercyclical. Does this finding hold-up when more micro data are...
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underemployment on transitions from employment and self-employment into other labour market states. It confirms that overemployment is …
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