Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 2,443
Cover Image
Contingent convergence : a comparative analysis of activation policies
Eichhorst, Werner (contributor);  … - 2008
principles, instruments, target groups and governance in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793501
Cover Image
Does the welfare state make older workers unemployable?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009
States and France. It discusses how the welfare state can be reformed in order to improve outcomes for older workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003900521
Cover Image
On the role of sectoral and national components in the wage bargaining process
Dreger, Christian; Reimers, Hans-Eggert - 2010
This paper provides an empirical analysis on the determination of wages at the sectoral level in main industrial economies. Nominal wages are bargained between labour unions and employers in imperfect competitive markets, where spillovers across sectors might occur. Using a principal component...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003959628
Cover Image
The firm as the locus of social comparisons : internal labor markets versus up-or-out
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Friebel, Guido; Lammers, Frauke - 2012
We suggest a parsimonious dynamic agency model in which workers have status concerns. A firm is a promotion hierarchy in which a worker's status depends on past performance. We investigate the optimality of two types of promotion hierarchies: (i) internal labor markets, in which agents have a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530691
Cover Image
The returns to seniority in France (and why are they lower than in the United States?)
Beffy, Magali; Buchinsky, Moshe; Fougère, Denis; … - 2006
We estimate a model of the joint participation and mobility along with the individuals' wage formation in France. Our … using state of the art Bayesian methods employing a long panel (1976-1995) for France. Our results clearly show that returns … rationale for this phenomenon. Specifically, in a low-mobility country such as France, there is little gain in compensating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003274184
Cover Image
Unemployment insurance generosity : a trans-atlantic comparison
Pallage, Stéphane J. (contributor);  … - 2008
United States, and by how much. We take the examples of France and one particular American state, Ohio, and use the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003782515
Cover Image
Time allocation between work and family over the life-cycle : a comparative gender analysis of Italy, France, Sweden and the United States
Anxo, Dominique (contributor) - 2007
division of labour. It identifies and analyses cross-country disparities between France, Italy, Sweden and United States, using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003586577
Cover Image
The tail of two countries : minimum wages and employment in France and the United States
Abowd, John M.; Kramarz, Francis; Margolis, David N.; … - 2000
We use longitudinal individual wage and employment data in France and the United States to investigate the effect of … to the minimum in a reference year as to be illegal in an adjacent comparison year as a result of movements in the real …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339095
Cover Image
Between-group competition in the labor market and the rising returns to skill : US and France 1964-2000
Wasmer, Etienne - 2001
: the elasticity of substitution between experience and education, which is found to be less than half. In France, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401268
Cover Image
Global sourcing of complex production processes
Schwarz, Christian; Südekum, Jens - 2010
We develop a theory of a firm in an environment with incomplete contracts. The firm's headquarter decides on the complexity, the organization, and the global scale of its production process. Specifically, it decides: i) on the mass of symmetric intermediate inputs that are part of the value...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009300131