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Is Portugal really so arteriosclerotic? : results from a cross-country analysis of labor adjustment

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 1999

Reputation indexes of employment protection have proven popular constructs in studies of the covariation of labor market institutions and macroeconomic outcomes. Portugal occupies an unenviable rank order in such measures of the stringency of employment protection. We critique this reputation in...

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Do Reservation Wages Really Decline? Some International Evidence on the Determinants of Reservation Wages

Addison, John T.; Centeno, Mário; Portugal, Pedro - 2021

Using cross-country data, we investigate the determinants of reservation wages and their course over the jobless spell. Higher unemployment benefits lead to higher reservation wages. Further, again consistent with the basic search model, repeated observations on the same individual provide scant...

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Collective Bargaining and Innovation in Germany : Cooperative Industrial Relations?

Addison, John T. - 2014

The effect of collective bargaining on innovation has long been in dispute. At the level of theory, the hold-up problem … representative data for Germany – for many observers the exemplar of a cooperative industrial relations regime – to investigate the … impact of collective bargaining on (several measures of) process innovation and product innovation. Our cross section and …

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The Determinants of Performance Appraisal Systems : A Note (Do Brown and Heywood's Results for Australia Hold Up for Britain?)

Addison, John T.; Belfield, Clive R. - 2021

This paper offers a replication for Britain of Brown and Heywood's analysis of the determinants of performance appraisal in Australia. Although there are some important limiting differences between our two datasets - the AWIRS and the WERS - we reach one central point of agreement and one...

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Job search methods and outcomes

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro - 1998

In this paper we investigate the process of job search, using a unique, large-scale data set for Portugal that allows us to assess the effect of job search methods on escape rates from unemployment and, in a new departure, the impact of job-finding methods used by the unemployed on earnings. In...

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The Reservation Wage Unemployment Duration Nexus

Addison, John T. - 2010

A thorny problem in identifying the determinants of reservation wages and particularly the role of continued joblessness in their evolution is the simultaneity issue. We deploy a natural control function approach to the problem that involves conditioning elapsed duration on completed...

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The Sources of Wage Variation : A Three-Way High-Dimensional Fixed Effects Regression Model

Torres, Sónia Manuela - 2013

This paper estimates a wage equation with three high-dimensional fixed effects, using a longitudinal matched employer-employee dataset covering virtually all Portuguese wage earners over a little more than two decades. The variation in log real hourly wages is decomposed into different...

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Does the Quality of Industrial Relations Matter for the Macro Economy? A Cross-Country Analysis Using Strikes Data

Addison, John T. - 2006

Using international data, we investigate whether the quality of industrial relations matters for the macro economy. We measure industrial relations inversely by strikes - which proxy we cross-check with an industrial relations reputation indicator - and our macro performance outcome is the...

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Does Atypical Work Help the Jobless? Evidence from a Caeas/Cps Cohort Analysis

Addison, John T.; Surfield, Christopher J. - 2021

Atypical employment, such as temporary, on-call, and contract work, has been found disproportionately to attract the jobless. But there is no consensus in the literature as to the labour market consequences of such job choice by unemployed individuals. Using data from the Current Population...

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Works councils and the anatomy of wages

Addison, John T. (contributor); … - 2006

This paper provides the first full examination of the effect of German works councils on wages using matched employer-employee data (specifically, the LIAB for 2001). We find that works councils are associated with higher earnings. The wage premium is around 11 percent (and is higher under...

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