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The energy-bias of North-South technology spillovers: A global, bilateral, bisectoral trade analysis

Hübler, Michael; Glas, Alexander - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

We examine variations in the South-North ratios (emerging vs. industrialized countries) of energy and labor intensities driven by imports. We use the novel World Input-Output Database (WIOD) that provides bilateral and bisectoral data for 40 countries and 35 sectors for 1995-2009. We find...

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Which indicators of absorptive capacity enhance import-induced South-North convergence in labor intensities?

Hübler, Michael; Glas, Alexander - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

We hypothesize that North-South trade is associated with knowledge spillovers that create labor productivity gains depending on various determinants of Southern absorptive capacity. We use the novel World Input-Output Database (WIOD) that provides bilateral and bisectoral panel data for 39...

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Regional Labor Market Disparities in Belgium

Estevão, Marcello M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002

particular demographic groups. These developments can largely be accounted for by worse matching of people to jobs in the high-unemployment …

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Wage Moderation in France

Estevão, Marcello M.; Nargis, Nigar - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002

Using household level data for France from 1990 to 2000, we estimate a relationship between wages and unemployment …

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Optimal tax progressivity in unionised labour markets: what are the driving forces?

Boeters, Stefan - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

the one hand, wages are lowered and unemployment decreases, on the other hand, the individual labour supply decision is … progressivity is below the actual level. A decomposition approach shows that the optimal level is increased by high unemployment and …

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Tax Progressivity and the Trade Union's Fallback-Option

Boeters, Stefan - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002

determined by the overall unemployment rate. It is argued both on analytical and numerical grounds that the second alternative is …

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Green tax reform and employment: the interaction of profit and factor taxes

Boeters, Stefan - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001

the level of the profit tax. The question of wheather there is unemployment or not turns out to be less important. …

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Are the French Happy with the 35-Hour Workweek?

Estevão, Marcello M.; Sa, Filipa - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

Legally mandated reductions in the workweek can be either a constraint on individuals' choice or a tool to coordinate individuals' preferences for lower work hours. We confront these two hypotheses by studying the consequences of the workweek reduction in France from 39 to 35 hours, which was...

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Do Active Labor Market Policies Increase Employment?

Estevão, Marcello M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

by reducing real wages below levels allowed by technological growth, changes in the unemployment rate, and institutional …

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Product Market Regulation and the Benefits of Wage Moderation

Estevão, Marcello M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

unemployment or faster growth. Weak output growth after such a cost shock is somewhat puzzling and has led some to question the … structurally slower real wage growth, that is, "wage moderation," does raise output growth and lower unemployment rates. However, I …

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