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Skill upgrading and rigid relative wages : the case of Danish manufactruing

Skaksen, Jan Rose; Sørensen, Anders - 2002

employment of skilled labor and changes in the unemployment rate. Furthermore, we show that international outsourcing has played … cycle ; outsourcing ; skill biased technological changes …

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Analysis of labor tax progression under heterogeneous domestic labor markets and flexible outsourcing

Koskela, Erkki - 2010

-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled labor in the presence of outsourcing? A higher degree of tax progression by …. -- heterogeneous domestic labor markets ; wage bargaining ; impacts of labor taxation ; outsourcing …

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The role of profit sharing in dual labour markets with flexible outsourcing

Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - 2011

We combine profit sharing for high-skilled workers and outsourcing of low-skilled tasks in partly imperfect dual … of profit sharing influence flexible outsourcing and low-skilled labour market outcome. Profit sharing has a positive … effect on the low-skilled wage and thus an outsourcing enhancing character. Profit sharing for high-skilled workers increases …

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Impacts of labor taxation with perfectly and imperfectly competitive domestic labor markets under flexible outsourcing

Koskela, Erkki - 2009

-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled labor in the presence of outsourcing? A higher degree of tax progression by … function so this will have no total employment effects. -- Flexible outsourcing ; dual labor market ; impacts of labour …

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Wage differentials by bargaining regime in Spain (2002-2014) : an analysis using matched employer-employee data

Ramos, Raúl; Sanromá, Esteban; Simón, Hipólito - 2018

This research examines wage differentials associated to different collective bargaining regimes in Spain and their evolution over time based on matched employer-employee microdata. The primary objective is to analyse the wage differentials associated to the presence of a firm-level agreement and...

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Unions, increasing returns and endogenous fluctuations

Modesto, Leonor; Lloyd-Braga, Teresa; Coimbra, Rui - 2000

We analyse the implications of unions (efficient bargaining) for multiplicity of stationary states and welfare, local indeterminacy, bifurcations and endogenous fluctuations (deterministic and stochastic). We use an overlapping generations model with external increasing returns to scale, where...

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Caught in the cycle: economic conditions at enrollment and labor market outcomes of college graduates

Bičáková, Alena; Cortes, Guido Matias; Mazza, Jacopo - 2020

We find robust evidence that cohorts of male graduates who start college during worse economic times earn higher average wages than those who start during better times. This gap is not explained by differences in selection into employment, in economic conditions at the time of college...

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Make your own luck : the wage gains from starting college in a bad economy

Bičáková, Alena; Cortes, Guido Matias; Mazza, Jacopo - 2023

Using data for nearly 40 cohorts of American college graduates and exploiting regional variation in economic conditions, we show robust evidence of a positive relationship between the unemployment rate at the time of college enrollment and subsequent annual earnings, particularly for women. This...

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Real wages, working time, and the great depression : what does micro evidence tell us?

Hart, Robert A.; Roberts, J. Elizabeth - 2010

Based largely on industry-level aggregate statistics, the prevailing view, and one that has strongly influenced macroeconomic thought, is that real wages during the cycle containing the Great Depression are either acyclical or countercyclical. Does this finding hold-up when more micro data are...

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Job re-grading, real wages, and the cycle

Hart, Robert A.; Roberts, J. Elizabeth - 2011

This paper makes use of the British New Earnings Survey Panel Dataset between 1976 and 2010. It consists of individual-level payroll data and comprises a random sample of 1% of the entire male and female labor force. About two-thirds of within- and between-company moves involve job re-grading...

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