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Micro-evidence on product and labor market regime differences between Chile and France
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Lauterbach, Rodolfo; Mairesse, Jacques - 2015
simultaneously product and labor market imperfections, this paper quantifies industry differences in both types of imperfections … Hall's econometric framework for estimating price-cost margins by nesting three labor market settings (perfect competition … market imperfections. Consistent with differences in institutions and in the industrial relations system in the two countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283103
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Is there convergence of Russia's regions? : exploring the empirical evidence ; 1995 - 2010
Lehmann, Hartmut; Silvagni, Maria Giulia - 2013
This paper analyzes convergence in per capita gross regional product of Russia's regions during the period 1995 … Russia, the social services sector of the public administration, education and health still do not have the expected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010127808
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Past dominations, current institutions and the Italian regional economic performance
Di Liberto, Adriana; Sideri, Marco - 2015
We study the connection between economic performance and the quality of government institutions for the sample of 103 Italian NUTS3 regions, including new measures of institutional performance calculated using data on the provision of different areas of public services. In order to address...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010469675
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Inconsistencies in reported employment characteristics among employed stayers
Bassi, Francesca (contributor);  … - 2008
The paper deals with measurement error, and its potentially distorting role, in information on industry and professional status collected by labour force surveys. The focus of our analyses is on inconsistent information on these employment characteristics resulting from yearly transition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793541
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Labor market discrimination and capital investment : the effects of fan discrimination on stadium investment
Bodvarsson, Örn B.; Humphreys, Brad R. - 2009
We investigate the possibility that labor market discrimination affects economic outcomes in the complementary capital … market. Previous research contains ample theoretical justification, and empirical evidence, that discrimination affects wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003910317
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Wages, employment and tenure of temporarily subsidized workers ; does the industry matter?
Stephan, Gesine - 2010
short-run wages, but fared significantly better in the longer run. Second, we compare labor market outcomes of subsidized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008778683
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Minimum wages in Kenya
Andalón, Mabel (contributor); Pagés, Carmen (contributor) - 2008
This paper examines the performance of minimum wage legislation in Kenya, both in terms of its coverage and enforcement as well as in terms of their implications for wages and employment. Our findings based on the 1998/99 labor force data - the last labor force survey available - indicate that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003666473
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Macroeconomic policy and unemployment by economic activity : evidence from Turkey
Berument, Hakan (contributor); Dogan, Nukhet (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper investigates how macroeconomic policy shocks in Turkey affect the total unemployment and provides evidence on the differential responses of the unemployment by sectors of economic activity. Our paper extends the previous work in two respects. First, we consider not only the response...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003688806
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Revisiting inter-industry wage differentials and the gender wage gap : an identification problem
Yun, Myeong-Su (contributor) - 2006
We propose a measure of the industrial gender wage gap which is free from an identification problem by using inter-industry wage differentials, or industrial wage premia. We draw on a recent literature showing that a normalized regression equation can be used to resolve the identification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003497939
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Decomposing the sources of earnings inequality : assessing the role of reallocation
Andersson, Fredrik; Davis, Elizabeth E.; Freedman, Matthew - 2011
This paper exploits longitudinal employer-employee matched data from the U.S. Census Bureau to investigate the contribution of worker and firm reallocation to changes in earnings inequality within and across industries between 1992 and 2003. We find that factors that cannot be measured using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523529