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Portability of Social Benefits International Trade in Services : Some Reflections
Valdes-Prieto, Salvador - 2014
In this fascinating new field, this paper offers some reflections on portability of social benefits, and tries to identify promising research topics. These reflections are organized in three sections. The first analyzes the channels that underpin the positive value of portability of social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064652
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An Empirical Analysis of the Dynamics of the Welfare State : The Case of Benefit Morale
Halla, Martin - 2009
public social expenditures and a high unemployment rate are associated with a small positive (or no) immediate impact on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013160043
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Income Support, (Un-)Employment and Well-Being
Hetschko, Clemens - 2016
analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984507
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Outsourcing, Unemployment and Welfare Policy
Keuschnigg, Christian; Ribi, Evelyn - 2021
challenges the two basic functions of the welfare state, redistribution and social insurance when private unemployment insurance … markets are missing. The main results are: (i) outsourcing raises unemployment and labor income risk of unskilled workers; (ii … welfare optimal redistribution and unemployment insurance policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316451
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Wage and Employment Effects of Non-Binding Minimum Wages
Dittrich, Marcus - 2010
Common wisdom holds that the introduction of a non-binding minimum wage is irrelevant for actual wages and employment. Empirical and experimental research, however, has shown that the introduction of a minimum wage can raise even those wages that were already above the new minimum wage. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139416
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'Unwarranted' Wage Changes and the Return on Capital
Katsimi, Margarita - 2009
Casual empiricism suggests that “unwarranted” wage changes, defined as the part of wage growth that is not explained by changes in labour productivity, are negatively associated with the return on capital. The main point of this paper is to show that “unwarranted” wage changes have no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013156013
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Margins of Multinational Labor Substitution
Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2008
Multinational labor demand responds to wage differentials at the extensive margin, when a multinational enterprise (MNE) expands into foreign locations, and at the intensive margin, when an MNE operates existing affiliates across locations. We derive conditions for parametric and nonparametric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012774187
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The Role of Trade and Offshoring in the Determination of Relative Wages and Child Labour
Cigno, Alessandro - 2017
Incorporating family decisions in a two-period.model of the world economy, we predict that trade liberalization raises the skill premium and reduces child labour in developing countries where the adult labour force is sufficiently well educated to attract production activities from abroad that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012951557
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Wages, Human Capital, and Structural Transformation
Herrendorf, Berthold - 2017
Average wages are considerably lower in agriculture than in the other sectors. We document this fact for thirteen countries ranging from rich (Canada, U.S.) to poor (India, Indonesia). We develop a measure of human capital that accounts for the selection of workers with different unobserved...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956718
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Outsourcing of Unionized Firms and the Impacts of Labour Market Policy Reforms
Koskela, Erkki - 2008
exemption and the unemployment benefit payments affect domestic wage setting in the same way as in the absence of outsourcing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012770785