18 studies using data from 20 highly developed, developing, and less developed countries document that average wages in …

the interaction between firms and trade union in determining wages and employment. The focus is on analyzing the effects … wages and capital stock, conditional on which the firm decides on production factors of employment, working hours and …This study is concerned with the development of a theoretical model and its empirical application to the estimation of …

While it is a stylized fact that exporting firms pay higher wages than non-exporting firms, the direction of the link … between exporting and wages is less clear. Using a rich set of German linked employer-employee panel data we follow over time … export, and that it does not increase in the following years. Higher wages in exporting firms are thus due to self …

This paper investigates short and long-run effects of trade liberalization on employment and wages. Employment and wage … causality is unidirectional. Wages strongly causes employment but employment does not cause wages. There is significant … sectors. We find the differences in the short and long-run wage and employment responses to changes in export to be explained …

This paper investigates the effects of trade liberalization on labor demand elasticities. Employment demand equation is …

to the legacy of communism where over-manning levels of employment were the norm. This paper sheds light on whether the … further use the Olley-Pakes methodology to estimate total factor productivity (TFP) and show that TFP has increased in most …

transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude … the negligible consequences of domestic privatization result from effects on scale, productivity, and costs that are large …

Differences in wages, employment, and capital between worker-owned and capitalist enterprises are computed from a …. Co-op wages are about 14 percent lower on average and they are more volatile (and employment less volatile) than those in …, employment, and capital equations largely corroborate the implications of the behavioral models of the two types of enterprise …

There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change on employment in the context of least developed … Method of Moments (GMM-SYS), this paper attempts to establish the nature of manufacturing employment in Ethiopia and the role … played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a …

greatest to value-added, followed by capital stock changes, and least by wages. The speed of adjustment in employment and the …This paper investigates the process of adjustment in employment. A dynamic model is applied to a panel of six Tunisian … variables and is used to model the desired level of labour-use. The labour requirement is specified to be function of wages …