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Local human capital externalities and wages at the firm level : the case of Italian manufacturing
Bratti, Massimiliano; Leombruni, Roberto - 2009
show that in Italy, like in the US, firms located in geographical areas with a higher stock of human capital pay higher … system and the lagged demographic structure. -- Firm ; local human capital externalities ; Italy ; manufacturing ; wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003925289
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Wage equalization and regional misallocation : evidence from Italian and German provinces
Boeri, Tito; Ichino, Andrea; Moretti, Enrico; Posch, Johanna - 2019
reduce inequality. We study the local and aggregate effects of collective bargaining in Italy and Germany. The two countries … have similar geographical differences in firm productivity - with the North more productive than the South in Italy and the … West more productive than the East in Germany - but have adopted different models of wage bargaining. Italy sets wages …
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Labor market imperfections and the firm's wage setting policy
Félix, Sónia; Portugal, Pedro - 2016
We use matched employer-employee data and firm balance sheet data to investigate the importance of firm productivity and firm labor market power in explaining firm heterogeneity in wage formation. We use a linear regression model with one interacted high dimensional fixed effect to estimate...
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Market externalities of large unemployment insurance extension programs
Lalive, Rafael; Landais, Camille; Zweimüller, Josef - 2013
This paper offers quasi experimental evidence of the existence of spillover effects of UI extensions using a unique program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in selected regions of Austria. We use non-eligible unemployed in treated regions, and a...
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A new model of wage determination and wage inequality
Jasso, Guillermina (contributor) - 2008
This paper proposes a new model of wage determination and wage inequality. In this model, wage-setters set workers' wages; they do so either directly, as when individuals vote in a salary committee, or indirectly, as when political parties, via the myriad of social, economic, fiscal, and other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003778992
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Search and offshoring in the presence of "animal spirits"
Mitra, Devashish; Ranjan, Priya - 2009
In this paper, we introduce two sources of unemployment in a two-factor general equilibrium model: search frictions and fairness considerations. We find that a binding fair-wage constraint increases the unskilled unemployment rate and can at the same time lead to a higher unemployment rate for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831919
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Wage structure and labor mobility in the Netherlands 1999 - 2003
Borghans, Lex (contributor); Kriechel, Ben (contributor) - 2007
In this paper we document the wage structure and labor mobility in the Netherlands in the period 1999-2003. We explain the importance of wage-setting institutions in the Netherlands and the main actors. The analyses are based on administrative sources allowing for comparisons between and within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003608327
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Unions, wage gaps, and wage dispersion : new evidence from the Americas
Rios-Avila, Fernando; Hirsch, Barry T. - 2012
Using a common methodology, the effects of unions on wage levels and wage dispersion are estimated for two neighboring countries, Bolivia and Chile, and for the U.S. The analysis shows that unions have broadly similar effects on the wage distribution within these three economies. The findings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009575337
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What are over-the-road truckers paid for? : evidence from an exogenous regulatory change on the role of social comparisons and work organization in wage determination
Burks, Stephen V.; Guy, Frederick - 2012
Using evidence from recent work on truckers and disaggregated older data prior researchers did not have, we revisit a classic topic and find some new answers. We focus on differentials in average annual earnings at the firm level among mileage-paid over-the-road tractor-trailer drivers ("road...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009532078
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Wage adjustment and productivity shocks
Carlsson, Mikael; Messina, Julián; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2011
We study how workers' wages respond to TFP-driven innovations in firms' labor productivity. Using unique data with highly reliable firm-level output prices and quantities in the manufacturing sector in Sweden, we are able to derive measures of physical (as opposed to revenue) TFP to instrument...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009306828