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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 the share of the outsourced workforce is not too large, this wage moderation effect on domestic employment outweighs the direct substitution effect so that domestic employment...

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What Do Labor Market Institutions Do?

Holmlund, Bertil - 2014

a fruitful interplay between search theory and empirical work. This research has established that UI matters for labor … employment and productivity …

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Productivity and the Decision to Import and Export : Theory and Evidence

Kasahara, Hiroyuki - 2008

aggregate productivity, resource allocation, and industry export activity along both the extensive and intensive margins. Using … productivity and shipping costs using Chilean plant-level data for a set of manufacturing industries. The estimated model is … consistent with the key features of the data regarding productivity, exporting, and importing. We perform a variety of …

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Labor Market Policies and European Crises

Bertola, Giuseppe - 2013

This paper studies theoretically and empirically why and how labor policies may reduce productivity and employment in …

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Flexicurity - Labour Market Performance in Denmark

Andersen, Torben M.; Svarer, Michael - 2021

Unemployment is at a low and stable level in Denmark. This achievement is often attributed to the so-called flexicurity model combining flexible hiring and firing rules for employers with income security for employees. Whatever virtues this model may have, a low and stable unemployment rate is...

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The Labor Market Impact of Undocumented Immigrants : Job Creation vs. Job Competition

Albert, Christoph - 2017

This paper studies the labor market impact of documented and undocumented immigration in a model with search frictions and non-random hiring. Since they accept lower wages, firms obtain a higher match surplus from hiring immigrants rather than natives. Therefore, immigration results in the...

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Growing Against the Background of Colonization? Chinese Labor Market and FDI in a Historical Perspective

Wang, Hao - 2018

This article investigates how the legacy of colonization shapes the impact of inward FDI on employment in the Chinese labor market. The analysis utilizes provincial panel on overall employment and employment in the service sector during 2006-15. We find that inward FDI significantly promotes...

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Emu Enlargement, Policy Uncertainty and Economic Reforms

Hefeker, Carsten - 2021

The paper analyzes the relation between monetary uncertainty and government incentives to implement economic reforms that reduce structural distortions and make economies more flexible. It is shown that uncertainty about the central bank's reaction function leads to more reforms. I relate this...

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Crisis

Fidrmuc, Jan - 2012

We investigate the effects of economic crises on the subsequent economic performance, economic reform, democratization and institutional change. Our analysis is based on a sample of post-communist countries, most of which experienced severe economic crises during the 1990s. We find that the...

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Quick Job Entry or Long-Term Human Capital Devlopment? The Dynamic Effects of Alternative Training Schemes

Osikominu, Aderonke - 2012

This paper investigates how precisely short-term, job-search oriented training programs as opposed to long-term, human capital intensive training programs work. We evaluate and compare their effects on time until job entry, stability of employment, and earnings. Further, we examine the...

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