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methods for sectors belonging to a 'control group' and sectors belonging to an 'experimental group' forItalian manufacturing …
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Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining coverage is much higher than union density; and not all employees in a covered firm are necessarily covered. This institutional setup suggests to distinguish explicitly union...
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This paper examines changes in the Greek wage distribution over 1995-2002 and the role of skill in these changes. The methodology adopted is the Machado-Mata counterfactual decomposition, which separates the part of wage changes that is due to job and workers' characteristics (composition...
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This paper examines changes in the Greek wage distribution over 1995-2002 and the role of skill in these changes. The methodology adopted is the Machado-Mata counterfactual decomposition, which separates the part of wage changes that is due to job and workers' characteristics (composition...
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Recent theoretical and empirical work has demonstrated a clear negative link between macroeconomic and political uncertainty and levels of private investment across countries. This result raises the question what institutions might help reduce this uncertainty, in particular by allowing host...
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investigate who the winners of this "green race" might be. The analysis covers 110 manufacturing sectors in eight countries (China …
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patterns of job loss in U.S. manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2007. Motivated by intuitions from factor … increases the likelihood of job loss among manufacturing workers with less than a high school degree; it is not significantly …
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We use a representative and cross-country comparable sample of manufacturing firms (EFIGE) to document patterns of … interaction among firm-level internationalization, innovation and productivity across seven European countries (Austria, France … survives after controlling for productivity, with some evidence of causality running from the latter to the former. Our …
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We estimate the impact of a carbon tax on manufacturing plants using panel data from the UK production census. Our …
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