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Value of work : bargaining, job-satisfaction, and taxation in a simple GE model
FitzRoy, Felix R. (contributor);  … - 2005
Job-satisfaction as a component of workers' utility has been strangely neglected, with work usually regarded as reducing utility and the benefits of leisure. This is contradicted by many empirical studies showing that unemployment is a major cause of unhappiness, even when income is controlled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003115146
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The choice of the agenda in labor negotiations : efficiency and behavioral considerations
Königstein, Manfred (contributor);  … - 2005
The labor economics literature has shown that the "efficient bargaining" model, in which wage and employment are negotiated simultaneously, is less frequently used on unionized markets than the less efficient "right-to-manage" model, in which wage is determined via bargaining and employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003115148
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A reevaluation of the role of family in immigrants' labor market activity : evidence from a comparison of single and married immigrants
Cohen-Goldner, Sarit; Gotlibovski, Chemi; Kahana, Nava - 2009
Previous papers tested the validity of the Family Investment Hypothesis (FIH) among immigrants by comparing the labor … credit constraints are binding, then only married immigrants can cross-finance their investment within the family. In order … to a rejection of the FIH in both countries. -- Family investment model ; labor supply …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003847131
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Technology and the demand for skill : an analysis of within and between firm differences
Abowd, John M.; Haltiwanger, John C.; Lane, Julia; … - 2007
We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated employer-employee data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Program infrastructure files spanning two Economic Censuses (1992 and 1997). We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003578359
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Frictions and the joint behavior of hiring and investment
Yashiv, Eran - 2012
The decisions of firms on investment and hiring play a crucial role in business cycle fluctuations. This paper explores … investment costs. It is significant and negatively signed, implying complementarity between investment and hiring. There is a … the investment part of the model is poor if hiring is left out completely or is introduced without the interaction between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548650
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Partial insurance and investments in children
Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - 2015
This paper studies the impact of permanent and transitory shocks to income on parental investments in children. We use panel data on family income, and an index of investments in children in time and goods, from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Consistent with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510508
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Distributional consequences of capital accumulation, globalisation and financialisation in the US
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2013
In this paper we examine the dynamic contributions of capital accumulation, globalisation, and financialisation to the functional-personal income distribution nexus. We analyse the labour share under the prism of monopoly and frictional growth, and disclose the dramatic upward trend in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009717716
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Investment crowding-out and labor market effects of financialization in the US
González, Ignacio; Sala, Hector - 2013
financial markets work, and stress the vital need of preventing financial devices that result in productive investment crowding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009721371
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The productivity impact of R&D investment : a comparison between the EU and the US
Castellani, Davide; Piva, Mariacristina; Schubert, Torben; … - 2016
Using data on the US and EU top R&D spenders from 2004 until 2012, this paper investigates the sources of the US/EU productivity gap. We find robust evidence that US firms have a higher capacity to translate R&D into productivity gains (especially in the high-tech industries), and this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476418
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What do unions do for economic performance?
Hirsch, Barry T. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001799708