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Wage divergence and unemployment : the impact of insider power and training costs
Muysken, Joan - 2000
general equilibrium model, this paper shows that skilled insiders in the USA enjoy higher rents and increase the skilled wage … outsiders in the USA do not possess a powerful credible threat to improve their position. This is a consequence from higher … training and education costs in the USA for unskilled employees and unemployed. In Germany, the lower skill wage mark-up leads …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428334
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The impact of the diffusion of a financial innovation on company performance : an analysis of SWIFT adoption
Scott, Susan V.; Van Reenen, John; Zachariadis, Markos - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003990925
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Conscious parallelism and predatory pricing in a contestable market
MacLeod, W. Bentley - 1983
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Examining contestability within the APS : initial information ; concepts, case studies and lessons learned
Hepner, Allen - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000948916
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Why not a contestable market for the Reserve Bank?
Toma, Mark - 1992
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000914891
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Talking less and moving the market more : is this the recipe for monetary policy effectiveness? ; evidence from the ECB and the Fed
Rosa, Carlo (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003649884
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Can family-support policies help explain differences in working hours across countries?
Sila, Urban - 2009
It has been suggested in the literature that taxes and subsidies play an important role in explaining the differences in working hours across countries. In this paper I test whether public programmes for family support play a role in explaining this variation. I analyse two types of policies:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003894448
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The distinct effects of information technology and communication technology on firm organization
Bloom, Nicholas; Garicano, Luis; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2009
Empirical studies on information communication technologies (ICT) typically aggregate the informationʺ and communicationʺ components together. We show theoretically and empirically that these have very different effects on the empowerment of employees, and by extension on wage inequality. If...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003868135
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Americans do I. T. better : US multinationals and the productivity miracle
Bloom, Nicholas (contributor); Sadun, Raffaella (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003455361
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Has ICT polarized skill demand? : evidence from eleven countries over 25 years
Michaels, Guy; Natraj, Ashwini; Van Reenen, John - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003973888