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heterogeneous labour and full information. -- Minimum wages ; unemployment ; hidden information ; labour market regulation …
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We apply a monopoly trade union model and analyze employment, wage and budgetary effects of (i) an inflow of migrant workers and (ii) an increase in the labor market participation rate of migrants. Per assumption, natives and migrants solely differ with respect to the level of benefit claims in...
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relative to their productivity and the effective cost of capital in low-complexity tasks. Minimum wages and other sources of … capital or one of a continuum of labor skills. We characterize conditions for interior automation, whereby tasks of … advantage in the most complex tasks relative to capital, and because the wages of the least skilled workers are sufficiently low …
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We investigate the impact of product market competition on firms’ automation investments. We use a rich combination of micro-data on Portuguese exporters and exploit a novel source of variation in the degree of competition they face – a tariff liberalization between the European Union and...
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Minimum wages generate an asymmetric pass-through of rm shocks across workers. We establish this result leveraging … response to negative rm productivity shocks, workers close to the wage oors experience higher job separations but no wage loss …. However, the wage of high-paid workers decreases, and more so in rms with higher incidence of minimum wages. A neoclassical …
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