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The Consequences of Being Different - Statistical Discrimination and the School-to-Work Transition
Mueller, Barbara - 2011
When information about the true abilities of job-seekers and applicants are hard to get, statistical discrimination by employers can be an efficient strategy in the hiring and wage setting process. But statistical discrimination can induce costs, if labor relations cannot be terminated in the...
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Temporary Employment, Job Flows and Productivity : A Tale of Two Reforms
Cappellari, Lorenzo - 2011
We investigate the effects of two reforms of temporary employment using panel data on Italian firms. We exploit variation in their implementation across regions and sectors for identification. We find that the reform of apprenticeship contracts increased job turnover and induced the substitution...
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Slow to Hire, Quick to Fire : Employment Dynamics with Asymmetric Responses to News
Ilut, Cosmin L. - 2017
Concave hiring rules imply that firms respond more to bad shocks than to good shocks. They provide a unified explanation for several seemingly unrelated facts about employment growth in macro and micro data. In particular, they generate countercyclical movement in both aggregate conditional...
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Industry-Level Labour Demand Elasticities Across the Eurozone : Will There Be Any Gain after the Pain of Internal Devaluation?
Adam, Antonis - 2014
In this paper we estimate disaggregated labour demand equations using panel data involving observations across time (1970-2007) for twenty-three industries across eleven Euro area countries. By using the EU KLEMS database, which provides data across countries, we provide industry-by-industry...
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Labor Reallocation in Response to Trade Reform
Menezes-Filho, Naercio A.; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2021
comparative-advantage industries and at exporters. These findings are robust to instrumenting trade barriers and export status … with product demand at Brazil's export destinations and real exchange rate components. Worker effects are important …
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Exporting and Labor Demand : Micro-Level Evidence from Germany
Lichter, Andreas - 2014
It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms' exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich, German administrative linked employer-employee panel...
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Firm Export Survival : Micro-Evidence from the Philippines
Pelkmans-Balaoing, Annette O. - 2017
This paper explores firms' export dynamics in emerging economies where local firms face stiff foreign competition, both … at home and abroad, and thus compelled to choose the level of quality in which to export. We develop and test a model of … vertical product differentiation where the link between export performance and product quality is central. The impact of other …
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Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns
Kerr, William - 2019
. The instrumented elasticity of export growth on the intensive margin with respect to the exporter's productivity growth is …
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Explaining the Size Differences of Exporter Productivity Premia : Theory and Evidence
Geishecker, Ingo - 2014
Why is it that exporter productivity premia (EPP) differ so widely in size? We take this question to the theory and to the data. We derive the sectoral EPP in a standard heterogeneous firms trade model and apply the insights from the model to 13 years of data for all Danish manufacturing firms....
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Agricultural Exports, Tariffs and Growth
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2014
This article presents a Ricardian model of trade with learning-by-doing to study the effect of barriers to trade in products with low growth potential on the long-run economic growth. The model shows that, when elasticity of demand for the product with a lower learning potential is lower than...
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