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Effects of Innovation on Employment : A Dynamic Panel Analysis
Lachenmaier, Stefan; Rottmann, Horst - 2021
This paper estimates the effect of innovation on employment at the firm level. Our uniquely long innovation panel data set of German manufacturing firms covers more than 20 years and allows us to use various innovation measures. We can distinguish between product and process innovations as well...
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Softening the Blow : U.S. State-Level Banking Deregulation and Sectoral Reallocation after the China Trade Shock
Ruslanova, Lilia; Hoffmann, Mathias - 2021
U.S. state-level banking deregulation during the 1980’s mitigated the impact of the China trade shock (CTS) on local … integration on demand for housing and on housing prices: faced with an adverse shock to their region’s terms-of-trade (i.e. the …
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Trade with Nominal Rigidities : Understanding the Unemployment and Welfare Effects of the China Shock
Rodriguez-Clare, Andres; Ulate, Mauricio; Vasquez, Jose P. - 2022
empirical literature studying the “China shock.” We find that the China shock leads to average welfare increases in most U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014244023
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Cousins from Overseas : The Labour Market Impact of a Major Forced Return Migration Shock
Bohnet, Lara; Peralta, Susana; Pereira dos Santos, João - 2022
We study the labour market impact of a major shock of return migration, following the end of the Portuguese Colonial …
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Unwilling to Train? Firm Responses to the Colombian Apprenticeship Regulation
Caicedo, Santiago; Espinosa, Miguel; Seibold, Arthur - 2021
We study firm responses to a large-scale change in apprenticeship regulation in Colombia. The reform requires firms to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315237
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Structural Reforms and Income Inequality : Who Benefits from Market-Oriented Reforms?
Gründler, Klaus - 2020
We examine how structural reforms relate to income inequality. We employ many indicators of structural reforms and use data for market and net income inequality. The dataset includes up to 135 countries since 1960. The results do not suggest that market-oriented structural reforms were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843419
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Inequality in the Impact of the Coronavirus Shock : Evidence from Real Time Surveys
Adams-Prassl, Abi - 2020
We present real time survey evidence from the UK, US and Germany showing that the labor market impacts of COVID-19 differ considerably across countries. Employees in Germany, which has a well-established short-time work scheme, are substantially less likely to be affected by the crisis. Within...
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The Effect of Labor Market Shocks Across the Life Cycle
Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willage, Barton; Willén, Alexander - 2022
considerably depending on when the shock occurs. We conclude that effects of adverse labor shocks are both more varied and more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013309486
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The employment effects of labor and product markets deregulation and their implications for structural reform
Berger, Helge; Danninger, Stephan - 2006
This study explores the effects of labor and product market deregulation on employment growth. Our empirical results … framework for evaluating deregulation strategies in the presence of reform costs. Optimal deregulation takes various forms … depending on the deregulation costs and the strength of reform interactions. Compared to the first best, decentralized decision …
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Labour Market Institutions and the Employment Intensity of Output Growth - An International Comparison
Rottmann, Horst; Flaig, Gebhard - 2021
This paper deals with the effects of labour market institutions on labour market performance. We analyse as an indicator for the labour intensity of output growth the employment threshold (the minimum growth rate of output necessary to keep employment constant). We show for a sample of 17 OECD...
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