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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001732880
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003910021
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009300802
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955497
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339688
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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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Cyclical skill-biased technological change
Balleer, Almut; Rens, Thijs van - 2009
Over the past two decades, technological progress has been biased towards making skilled labor more productive. What does skill-biased technological change imply for business cycles? To answer this question, we construct a quarterly series for the skill premium from the CPS and use it to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003863655
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Piece work pay and hourly pay over the cycle
Hart, Robert A. (contributor) - 2006
This paper investigates the relative cyclical behavior of the pay of piece workers and hourly paid workers. It uses a unique data set of blue-collar workers in British engineering between 1926 and 1966. The statistics are obtained from the payrolls of firms belonging to the Engineering Employers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003411751
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Measuring what employers really do about entry wages over the business cycle
Martins, Pedro S.; Solon, Gary; Thomas, Jonathan P. - 2010
In models recently published by several influential macroeconomic theorists, rigidity in the real wages that firms pay newly hired workers plays a crucial role in generating realistically large cyclical fluctuations in unemployment. There is remarkably little evidence, however, on whether...
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