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Nonunion employee representation : theory and the German experience with mandated works councils
Jirjahn, Uwe; Smith, Stephen C. - 2017
externalities on labor and society are synthesized. Mandated works councils in Germany provide a particularly strong form of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011737498
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Do changes in regulation affect temporary agency workers' job satisfaction?
Busk, Henna; Jahn, Elke J.; Singer, Christine - 2015
regulations covering the temporary help service sector in Germany. We isolate the causal effect of this reform by combining a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498616
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Entry barriers and the labor market outcomes of incumbent workers : evidence from a deregulation reform in the German crafts sector
Lergetporer, Philipp; Ruhose, Jens; Simon, Lisa - 2018
We study the labor market outcomes of a deregulation reform in Germany that removed licensing requirements to become …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011916534
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Firm dynamics and residual inequality in open economies
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Impullitti, Giammario; Prat, Julien - 2014
Increasing wage inequality between similar workers plays an important role for overall inequality trends in industrialized societies. To analyze this pattern, we incorporate directed labor market search into a dynamic model of international trade with heterogeneous firms and homogeneous workers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246655
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Structural reform in Germany
Krebs, Tom; Scheffel, Martin - 2016
deregulation reform are relatively small due to the small size of the professional services in Germany. Policy reforms i) and ii … proposals for Germany: i) a reduction in the social security tax in the low-wage sector, ii) a publicly financed expansion of … full-day child care and full-day schooling, and iii) the further deregulation of the professional service sector. The …
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The value of sick pay
Adams, Abi; Boneva, Teodora; Golin, Marta; Rauh, Christopher - 2021
Not all countries provide universal access to publicly funded paid sick pay. Amongst countries that do, compensation rates can be low and coverage incomplete. This leaves a significant role for employer-provided paid sick pay in many countries. In this paper, we study who has access to...
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Smallholders, market failures, and agricultural production: evidence from India
Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2020
Market completeness has important implications for household behavior. I firmly reject complete markets for smallholders but am unable to do so for non-smallholders. This leads to important differences in production behavior: smallholders reallocate labor across activities less in response to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290639
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Macroeconomic policy lessons of labor market frictions
Yashiv, Eran - 2002
The paper explores the consequences of macroeconomic policy for labor market outcomes in the presence of frictions. It shows how policy may be useful in overriding frictions, as well as how it might generate adverse outcomes. The analysis looks at the main tools of macroeconomic policy and...
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Common ownership of competing firms: evidence from Australia
Leigh, Andrew; Triggs, Adam - 2021
We provide the first estimates of the extent of common ownership of competing firms in Australia. Combining data on market shares and substantial shareholdings, we calculate the impact of common ownership on effective market concentration. Among firms where we can identify at least one owner, 31...
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Distributional effects of competition: a simulation approach
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Araar, Abdelkrim; … - 2021
Understanding the economic and social effects of the recent global trends of rising market concentration and market power has become a policy priority. To fill this knowledge gap, this paper introduces a simple simulation method, the Welfare and Competition tool (WELCOM), to estimate with...
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