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Migration and cultural change
Rapoport, Hillel; Sardoschau, Sulin; Silve, Arthur - 2020
We examine both theoretically and empirically how migration affects cultural change in home and host countries. Our theoretical model integrates various compositional and cultural transmission mechanisms of migration-based cultural change for which it delivers distinctive testable predictions on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270567
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Changing tides for the welfare state : an essay
Lindbeck, Assar - 2002
It has turned out to be difficult to adjust welfare-state arrangements to new circumstances. This paper emphasizes developments in the labor market and changes in the structure and preferences of the family. The former include changes in demography, productivity growth and international linkages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408910
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Identity, beliefs, and political conflict
Gennaioli, Nicola; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2019 - This version: July 2019
globalization or cultural changes may induce voters to switch identities, dampening their demand for redistribution and exacerbating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029139
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Globalisation and the decoupling of inflation from domestic labour costs
Kohlscheen, Emanuel; Moessner, Richhild - 2021
We provide novel systematic cross-country evidence that the link between domestic labour markets and CPI inflation has weakened considerably in advanced economies during recent decades. The central estimate is that the short-run pass-through from domestic labour cost changes to core CPI...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012612957
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Low skill but high volatility?
Buch, Claudia M.; Pierdzioch, Christian - 2009
Globalization may impose a double-burden on low-skilled workers. On the one hand, the relative supply of low … test the predictions of the model. Our results show that greater financial globalization and development increases the … dampening impact. -- labor-market volatility ; skill levels ; financial globalization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850520
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Exports, unemployment and the welfare state
Janeba, Eckhard (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003497526
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Capacity constraining labor market frictions in a global economy
Holzner, Christian; Larch, Mario - 2011
Convex vacancy creation costs shape firms' responses to trade liberalization. They induce capacity constraints by increasing firms' cost of production, leading a profit maximizing firm not to fully meet the increased foreign demand. Hence, firms will only serve a few export markets. More...
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International fragmentation : boon or bane for domestic employment?
Egger, Hartmut (contributor); Kreickemeier, Udo (contributor) - 2005
In this paper, we introduce the fairness approach to efficiency wages into a standard model of international fragmentation. This gives us a theoretical framework in which wage inequality and unemployment rates are co-determined and therefore the public concern can be addressed that international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003204008
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Disentangling the sources of pro-social behavior in the workplace : a field experiment
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2009
This paper presents evidence from a field experiment, which aims to identify the two sources of worker's pro-social motivation that have been considered in the literature: action-oriented altruism and output-oriented altruism. To this end we employ an experimental design that first measures the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872816
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The past and future of work : how history can inform the age of automation
Schneider, Benjamin; Vipond, Hillary - 2023
Debates about the future of work frequently reference past instances of transformative innovation to preface analysis of how automation and artificial intelligence could reshape society and the economy. However, technological shifts in history are rarely considered in depth or used to improve...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014430719