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Unemployment in the European Union : institutions, prices, and growth : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Employment and Social Protection, June 2004
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector; Snower, Dennis J. - 2004
This paper presents a reappraisal of unemployment movements in the European Union. Our analysis is based on the chain reaction theory of unemployment, which focuses on (a) the interaction among labor market adjustment processes, (b) the interplay between these adjustment processes and the...
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The Same Yet Different : Worker Reports on Labour Practices and Outcomes in a Single Firm Across Countries
Freeman, Richard B. - 2007
This paper examines cross-country differences in labour policies and practices and employee performance and attitudes toward work from a sample of nearly 30,000 employees in a large multinational manufacturing firm. The analysis shows: 1) large establishment and country differences in work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465420
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The 2004 Global Labor Survey : Workplace Institutions and Practices Around the World
Chor, Davin - 2005
Although our pool of respondents differs greatly from the conservative foundations and business leaders who contribute respectively to the Fraser Institute and World Economic Forum reports, the GLS and the labor market components of the economic freedom and competitiveness measures give similar...
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Minimum Hours Constraints, Job Requirements and Retirement
Gustman, Alan L. - 2004
of policies firms might adopt to improve employment conditions for older workers and thereby encourage delayed retirement …, while reducing full time work and full retirement, resulting in only a small net increase in full-time equivalent employment …
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Observations on International Labor Standards and Trade
Krueger, Alan B. - 1996
This paper reviews the theoretical arguments for and against linking international labor standards to trade. Based on theory alone it is difficult to generalize about the effect of labor standards on efficiency and equity. Some economists have argued that international labor standards are merely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473213
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Preference for the Workplace, Human Capital, and Gender
Wiswall, Matthew - 2016
In this paper, we use a hypothetical choice methodology to robustly estimate preferences for workplace attributes and quantify how much these preferences influence pre-labor market human capital investments. Undergraduate students are presented with sets of job offers that vary in their...
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Measuring and Predicting "New Work" in the United States : The Role of Local Factors and Global Shocks
Kim, Gueyon; Merritt, Cassandra; Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
employment growth. Then, we analyze whether local factors associated in the previous literature with agglomeration economies and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014544803
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Global Value Chains and Labor Standards : The Race-to-the-Bottom Problem
Im, Hye-jun; McLaren, John - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We ask how globalization affects a government's incentives to set labor standards for its workers. In a stylized equilibrium model of global value chains, we find two contrasting results. First, each country chooses stricter labor standards with globalization than it would under autarky, because...
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National minimum wage and employment of young workers in the UK
Fidrmuc, Jan; Tena, J. D. - 2013
We analyze the impact of the UK national minimum wage (NMW) on the employment of young workers. The previous literature …, we find a significant and negative employment effect for male workers at 21, which we believe to be an anticipation … effect on employment of young workers, with this effect possibly occurring already well in advance of reaching the threshold …
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Employment and taxes
Nickell, Stephen J. - 2003
This paper considers the impact of taxation policy on market work. On the basis of the evidence, we find that a 10 percentage point rise in the tax wedge will reduce overall labour input provided via the market by around 2 per cent of the population of working age. The tax wedge is the sum of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404308