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Liberalized Trade and Worker-Firm Matching

Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

matching between workers and firms in export-oriented industries. Changes that reduce the cost of imports have an ambiguous …

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Cost and Productivity Effects of Firm Financed Training.

Ottersten, E.K.; Lindh, T.; Mellander, E. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1996

A Quality-adjusted specification of labor is suggested which allow firms training to effect labor efficiency. To assess the cost and productivity effects, this specification is integrated into a flexible neoclassical cost function.

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Cost and Productivity Effects of Firm Financed Training

Kazamaki Ottersten, Eugenia; Lindh, Thomas; Mellander, Erik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1996

A quality-adjusted specification of labor is suggested which allows firm training to affect labor efficiency. To assess the cost and productivity effects, this specification is integrated into a flexible neoclassical cost function. The empirical analysis uses panel data for eight plants in the...

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Globalization and Imperfect Labor Market Sorting

Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010

This paper focuses on the ability of the labor market to correctly match heterogeneous workers to jobs within a given … evidence that openness improves the matching between workers and firms in export-oriented industries. This suggests that there …

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