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Foreign Ownership and Employment Growth in Indonesian Manufacturing
Sjöholm, Fredrik; Lipsey, Robert E.; Sun, Jing - 2010
Many developing countries would like to increase the share of modern or formal sectors in their employment. One way to …, previous research on the issue has been limited by the paucity of long data sets for firm operations. We examine employment … from domestic ones. Employment growth is relatively high in foreign-owned establishments, although foreign firms own …
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Private Equity and Employees
Olsson, Martin; Tåg, Joacim - 2012
a private equity buyout. Unemployment risk declines despite lower employment growth for continuing establishments … - attributable to hiring freezes rather than to layoffs - and a lack of change in firm level employment growth. A plausible …
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The European Size Distribution of Firms and Employment
Stenkula, Mikael - 2006
employment. It is often claimed that we are approaching a new economic era where large enterprises have lost their importance in … conclusions? Examining the availability and quality of data on European firm size and employment, we find that the existing data …
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Unemployment in the European Union: Institutions, prices, and growth
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Héctor; Snower, Dennis J. - 2004
This paper presents a reappraisal of unemployment movements in the European Union. Our analysis is based on the chain reaction theory of unemployment, which focuses on (a) the interaction among labor market adjustment processes, (b) the interplay between these adjustment processes and the...
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EU banks rating assignments: Is there heterogeneity between new and old member countries?
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Matousek, Roman; Stewart, Chris - 2010
We model EU countries' bank ratings using financial variables and allowing for intercept and slope heterogeneity. Our aim is to assess whether 'old' and 'new' EU countries are rated differently and to determine whether 'new' ones are assigned lower ratings, ceteris paribus, than 'old' ones. We...
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How Much Do Workers Actually Value Working from Home?
Nagler, Markus; Rincke, Johannes; Winkler, Erwin - 2022
Working from home (WFH) has become ubiquitous around the world. We ask how much workers actually value this job attribute. Using a stated-preference experiment, we show that German employees are willing to give up 7.7% of their earnings for WFH, but they value other job attributes more. For...
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High-Pressure, High-Paying Jobs?
Nagler, Markus; Rincke, Johannes; Winkler, Erwin - 2022
Work-related stress has reportedly increased over time. Using worker-level survey data, we build a measure of work pressure strongly associated with adverse health outcomes. In line with theories of compensating differentials, work pressure comes with a sizable earnings premium, even within...
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Picture This: Social Distance and the Mistreatment of Migrant Workers
Barsbai, Toman; Bartoš, Vojtĕch; Licuanan, Victoria; … - 2022
employers. Encouraging DWs to show their employers a family photo while providing a small gift when starting employment reduced …
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Labor market policy: A comparative view on the costs and benefits of labor market flexibility
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2010
collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection laws, unemployment insurance (UI), mandated parental leave, and …
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Labor market institutions, wages, and investment
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2004
Labor market institutions, via their effect on the wage structure, affect the investment decisions of firms in labor markets with frictions. This observation helps explain rising wage inequality in the US, but a relatively stable wage structure in Europe in the 1980s. These different trends are...
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