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Interacting product and labor market regulation and the impact of immigration on native wages

Prantl, Susanne; Spitz-Oener, Alexandra - 2014

Does interacting product and labor market regulation alter the impact of immigration on wages of competing native … labor market: one segment without product and labor market regulation, to which standard immigration models best apply, one … segment in which product and labor market regulation interact, and one segment covering intermediate groups of workers. We …

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Young, single, but not free : the EU market for financial services

Booth, P. - In: Breaking up is hard to do ... : Britain and Europe's …, (pp. 253-273). 2016

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Rent building, rent sharing : a panel country-industry empirical analysis

Askenazy, Philippe; Cette, Gilbert; Maarek, Paul - 2012

, decrease with anti-competitive regulation in upstream sectors and increase with the industry specific output gap; ii) decrease … with the national output gap, increase with the national employment rate and decrease with employment protection regulation …

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The effect of statutory sick pay regulations on workers' health

Halla, Martin; Pech, Susanne; Zweimüller, Martina - 2015

Social insurance programs typically comprise sick leave insurance. An important policy parameter is how the cost of sick leave are shared between workers, firms, and the social security system. We show that this sharing rule affects not only absence behavior, but also workers' subsequent health....

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Regulation and UK retailing productivity : evidence from micro data

Haskel, Jonathan; Sadun, Raffaella - 2009

We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and … productivity works out at about £80,000 per small chain supermarket store. -- Productivity ; retail ; regulation …

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Emigration, remittances and corruption experience of those staying behind

Ivlevs, Artjoms; King, Roswitha M. - 2014

We examine the effects of emigration and remittances on the corruption experience of migrant household members staying in the countries of origin. We hypothesize that the effects of emigration on corruption can be both positive (via migrant value transfer) and negative (via misuse of monetary...

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The impact of employment protection on the industrial wage structure

Heywood, John S.; O'Mahony, Mary; Siebert, William S.; … - 2018

This paper tests whether the job security offered by stricter employment protection legislation (EPL) undermines positive compensating wage differentials that would otherwise be paid. Specifically, we ask whether industries with relatively more need for layoffs and labour flexibility have lower...

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Imports as product and labor market discipline

Boulhol, Hervé (contributor); … - 2006

This paper tests the pro-competitive effect of trade in the product and labor markets of UK manufacturing sectors between 1988 and 2003 using a two-stage estimation procedure. In the first stage, we use data on 9820 firms from twenty manufacturing sectors to simultaneously estimate mark-up and...

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Temporary contracts and monopsony power in the UK labour market

Tabasso, Domenico - 2011

This paper addresses the applicability of the theory of equalizing differences (Rosen, 1987) in a market in which temporary and permanent workers co-exist. The assumption of perfect competition in the labour market is directly questioned and a model is developed in which the labour market is...

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Does immigration improve quality of care in nursing homes?

Furtado, Delia; Ortega, Francesc - 2020

The growing healthcare needs of baby boomers require significant increases in the number or productivity of healthcare workers. This paper explores how immigrants may fill these gaps in nursing homes. First, we show that immigrant inflows are associated with reduced wages of lower skilled nurses...

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