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Two-level negotiations in a fragmented system: Saudi Arabia's WTO accession

Hertog, Steffen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

Based on a case study of Saudi Arabia's WTO accession, the article offers a critique of conventional factor- and sector-based models of trade policy, proposing instead a two-level institutional account that is likely to be relevant for non-democratic states in general. Historically grown...

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Petromin: the slow death of statist oil development in Saudi Arabia

Hertog, Steffen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

The paper recounts the history of Saudi Arabia's first national oil company, Petromin, which was originally supposed to take the place of foreign-owned Aramco. As a result of Petromin's inefficiency and personal rivalries among the Saudi elite, however, Petromin was progressively relegated to...

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Arab Gulf states: an assessment of nationalisation policies

Hertog, Steffen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Gaps in labour rights and labour prices between nationals and migrant workers are the main causes explaining the low participation of GCC citizens in the region’s private labour markets. Past policies of “Gulfization” have not directly addressed these structural constraints but have rather...

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Gender segregation in employment contracts

Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This paper presents evidence on gender segregation in employment contracts in 15 EU countries, using micro data from …

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Employment patterns in OECD countries

Nickell, Stephen; Nunziata, Luca - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

This paper studies the dynamics of labour demand and the determinants of employment rates across the OECD. We find: (i …) labour demand adjusts less rapidly when employment protection is more strict and union density is higher; (ii) there is no … evidence that overall job turnover is influenced by employment protection; (iii) union density and coverage are negatively …

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Patterns of work across the OECD

Faggio, Giulia; Nickell, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

Market work per person of working age differs widely across the OECD countries and there have been some significant changes in the last forty years. How to explain this pattern? Taxes are part of the story but much remains to be explained. If we include all the elements of the social security...

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Productivity growth and employment: theory and panel estimates

Pissarides, Christopher; Vallanti, Giovanna - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

Theoretical predictions of the effect of TFP growth on employment are ambiguous, and depend on the extent to which new … technology is embodied in new jobs. We estimate a model for employment, wages and investment with an annual panel for the United … States, Japan and Europe and find that TFP growth increases employment. For the United States TFP growth explains the trend …

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WAGE FORMATION IN THE NORDIC COUNTRIES VIEWED FROM AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE

JACKMAN, R. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1989

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STYLISED FACTS AND THE LABOUR DEMAND CURVE

NEWELL, A.; SYMONS, J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1988

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UNIONIZATION AND EMPLOYMENT BEHAVIOUR

BLANCHFLOWER, D.; MILLWARD, N.; OSWALD, A. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1989

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