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EU enlargement and (temporary) migration : effects on labour market outcomes in Germany
Hammer, Luisa; Hertweck, Matthias S. - 2022
distribution; and a permanent positive effect on full-time employment. …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467079
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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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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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The impact of weather shocks on employment outcomes : evidence from South Africa
Brookes Gray, Harriet; Taraz, Vis; Halliday, Simon D. - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012879896
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Working longer, working stronger? : the forward-looking effects of increasing the retirement age on (un)employment behaviour
Gohl, Niklas - 2023
increase in the working horizon on (un)employment behaviour for individuals with a long remaining statutory working life. Using … probability of employment, decreases the probability of unemployment, and increases the intensity of job search among the … unemployed. Heterogeneity analyses show that the demonstrated employment effects are strongest for women and in occupations with …
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The long-term earnings' effects of a credit market disruption
Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; De Philippis, Marta; Sette, Enrico - 2023
This paper studies the long-term consequences on firms and workers of the credit crunch triggered by the 2007-2008 global financial crisis. Relying on a unique matched bank-employer-employee administrative dataset, we construct a firm-specific credit supply shock and examine firms’ and...
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Wage-Employment Contracts : Global Results
Green, Jerry R. - 1981
This paper studies the efficient agreements about the dependence of workers' earnings on employment, when the … employment level is controlled by firms. The firms ' superior information about profitability conditions is responsible for this … form of contract governance. Under plausible assumptions, such agreements will cause employment to diverge from efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478446
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Heterogeneity in the effect of regulation on entrepreneurship and entry size
Ardagna, Silvia - 2009
to become an entrepreneur and the level of employment of newly created businesses. We focus on the interaction between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463139