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Exports and property prices in France : are they connected?
Égert, Balázs; Kierzenkowski, Rafał - 2010
France has seen a marked deterioration in its export performance in the last 10 years or so. Previous empirical … construction sector triggered by fast rising property prices hindered France to meet world export demand vis-à-vis its products … experienced a marked decline in their export performance and sustained real-estate boom after 2000. -- OECD ; France …
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The positive economics of labor market rigidities and investor protection
Fehn, Rainer; Meier, Carsten-Patrick - 2001
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On the determinants of labour market institutions : rent-sharing vs. social insurance
Agell, Jonas - 2000
What determines the structure of labour market institutions? This paper argues that common explanations based on rent sharing are incomplete; unions, job protection, and egalitarian pay structures may have as much to do with social insurance of otherwise uninsurable risks as with rent sharing and...
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Wage determination in the shadow of the law : the case of works councilors in Germany
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2021
The German law on co-determination at the plant level (Betriebsverfassungsgesetz) stipulates that works councilors are neither to be financially rewarded nor penalized for their activities. This regulation contrasts with publicized instances of excessive payments. The divergence has sparked a...
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Minimum wage non-compliance : the role of co-determination
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2023
We analyse in what way co-determination affects non-compliance with the German minimum wage, which was introduced in 2015. The Works Constitution Act (WCA), the law regulating co-determination at the plant level, provides works councils with indirect means to ensure compliance with the statutory...
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When protection becomes exploitation : the impact of firing costs on present-biased employees
Englmaier, Florian; Fahn, Matthias; Glogowsky, Ulrich; … - 2023
Employment protection harms early-career employees without benefitting them in later career stages (Leonardi and Pica, 2013). We demonstrate that this pattern can result from employers exploiting naïve present-biased employees. Employers offer a dynamic contract with low early-career wages, an...
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Enterprise formation and labor market institutions
Kanniainen, Vesa; Vesala, Timo - 2000
The paper introduces a model of enterprise formation in a unionized economy with labor protection and wage bargaining. Enterprise formation is subject to future market risk and is shaped by labor market institutions in the post-entry stage. The predictions of the model are tested in...
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Work organization, wage pressure in the secondary labor market, and the green card
Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2001
Two trends have marked the politico-economic discussion in many industrialized countries in recent years. On the one hand, international production, workplace decentralization, shareholder orientation and generous manager remuneration have changed the face of firms in the primary economy. On the...
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Capital accumulation and unemployment : a tale of two continents
Malley, James R.; Moutos, Thomas - 2000
In contrast to much recent work regarding the causes of European unemployment, in this paper, we emphasise the importance of capital accumulation. But unlike the few previous studies which have examined the relationship between capital accumulation and unemployment, we argue that what matters...
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Intellectual property rights, technology transfer and exports in developing countries
Yang, Lei (contributor); Maskus, Keith E. (contributor) - 2008
We develop a model to analyze one mechanism under which stronger intellectual property rights (IPR) protection may improve the ability of firms in developing countries to break into export markets. A Northern firm with a superior process technology chooses either exports or technology transfer...
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