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Labor market policy : a comparative view on the costs and benefits of labor market flexibility

Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2010

I review theories and evidence on labor market policies and institutions in an international context. These include collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection laws, unemployment insurance (UI), mandated parental leave, and active labor market policies. Scandinavia and Central...

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The positive economics of labor market rigidities and investor protection

Fehn, Rainer; Meier, Carsten-Patrick - 2001

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International comparisons and transfer of labour market institutions

Ochel, Wolfgang - 2002

International comparisons of labour market institutions and their transfer across boundaries have gained in importance. The paper deals with the question of the best way to proceed in making such comparisons. At the same time the question of the possibilities and limits to institutional transfer...

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Offshoring and volatility of demand

Benz, Sebastian; Kohler, Wilhelm; Yalçin, Erdal - 2016

In this paper we explore the role that demand uncertainty plays for the offshoring decision, and the role that offshoring plays for domestic volatility of employment. Offshoring is modeled as in Antràs & Helpman (2004), but we assume complete contracts. Firms are heterogeneous as in Melitz...

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Learning and the value of relationships in international trade

Monarch, Ryan; Schmidt-Eisenlohr, Tim - 2016

How valuable are long-term supplier relationships? To address this question, this paper explores relationships between U.S. importers and their suppliers abroad. We first establish several facts: almost half of U.S. imports are in relationships three years or older, relationship survival and...

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Do markets care about central bank governor changes? : evidence from emerging markets

Moser, Christoph (contributor); Dreher, Axel (contributor) - 2007

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Does high inflation cause central bankers to lose their job? : evidence based on a new data set

Dreher, Axel (contributor); Sturm, Jan-Egbert (contributor); … - 2007

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Global talent flows

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Özden, Çağlar; … - 2016

The global distribution of talent is highly skewed and the resources available to countries to develop and utilize their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further. Using newly available data, we first review the landscape...

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Portability of pension, health, and other social benefits : facts, concepts, and issues

Holzmann, Robert; Koettl, Johannes - 2012

Portability of social benefits across professions and countries is an increasing concern for individuals and policy makers. Lacking or incomplete transfers of acquired social rights are feared to negatively impact individual labor market decisions as well as capacity to address social risks with...

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The great divergence : a network approach

Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - 2015

knowledge throughout the world explains a period of increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the … industrial revolution, followed by decreasing relative inequality. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network explains the … individual countries in the course of world development. …

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