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Labour Market Institutions and Their Effect on Labour Market Performance in the New EU Member Countries
Fialová, Kamila - 2008
This article focuses on the role of labour market institutions in explaining different labour market developments in European countries, with a special attention to the new European Union member countries. This may allow us to analyse effects of various institutional setups and of their changes...
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On the Political Economy of Complexity
Nitzan, Shmuel; Procaccia, Uriel; Tzur, Joseph - CESifo - 2013
Article underscores the dark side of both phenomena by focusing on the anti-competitive features of regulation and reform and …
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Outsourcing of Unionized Firms and the Impacts of Labour Market Policy Reforms
Koskela, Erkki - 2008
This paper shows that outsourcing of parts of the workforce in unionized firms leads to wage moderation and as long as … direct substitution effect so that domestic employment increases in unionized firms as outsourcing costs fall. This does not … exemption and the unemployment benefit payments affect domestic wage setting in the same way as in the absence of outsourcing …
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Regulation, Institutions and Aggregate Investment : New Evidence from OECD Countries
Egert, Balazs - 2017
and labour market regulation on the capital stock. Several alternative testing methods show that the negative influence of … product and labour market regulation is considerably stronger at higher levels. The paper uncovers important policy …
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Language Rights -- A Welfare-Economics Approach
Wickström, Bengt-Arne - 2021
Distributions of language rights in multilingual settings are analyzed from a normative viewpoint in this chapter. If the cost structure of providing rights is concave in the number of beneficiaries, then a critical-mass criterion for the determination of an optimal rights structure results. It...
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'Take it or Go to Court' - The Impact of Sec. 1a of the German Protection Against Dismissal Act on Severance Payments
Goerke, Laszlo - 2010
In 2004, a section was added to the German Protection against Dismissal Act, establishing a new procedure to dismiss an employee, given a predetermined severance payment. Most legal scholars presume the change to be without impact, while a minority of experts claims it to be either beneficial or...
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Politics, Unemployment, and the Enforcement of Immigration Law
Makowsky, Michael D. - 2012
Immigration control-related audits and their resulting sanctions are not solely determined by impartial enforcement of laws and regulations. They are also determined by the incentives faced by vote-maximizing congressmen, agents acting on their behalf, and workers likely to compete with...
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Labor Market Regulation and the Legal System
Hefeker, Carsten - 2007
When enacting labor market regulation governments face courts that interpret and implement the legal code. We show that …
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Labor Courts, Nomination Bias, and Unemployment in Germany
Berger, Helge - 2006
Labor courts play an important role in determining the effective level of labor market regulation in Germany, but their …
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Voting in the European Union - Central Europe's Lost Voice
Schneider, Ondrej - 2008
Ten Central European countries became members of the European Union in the years 2004-2007. They constitute 20% of the EU's total population; and even though their economic output is much lower, it rises dynamically. New members' impact on the EU policies has nevertheless been limited. This is...
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