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changes in heterogeneity, e.g. increased demand for skilled labor, are also analyzed. In the most reasonable setup, a change …
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labor markets among citizens of the European Community. It provides the results of probit equations estimating the … labor markets. The estimates show a statistically significant, but weak, negative connection between the concentration of … foreigners in a local labor market and the likelihood of employment among European citizens residing in that labor market. The …
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developing economies. I present a dynamic general equilibrium model with informality in both labor and goods markets and where … impact on labor allocation between formal and informal jobs. These results point to the importance of accounting for …
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Unlike previous empirical studies that focus on barriers to entry in international trade, we focus on barriers to exit as measured by passport costs for a crosssection of countries. We test four common theories on the determinants of such exit barriers and find that macroeconomic and brain-drain...
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This paper takes advantage of a recent large firm-level dataset to compare labor indicators of privatized, private, and … public firms around the world, particularly wages, benefits, labor composition, education and training, unionization, and … quality of management. While labor productivity increases after privatization, the ratio of permanent workers to temporary …
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Theoretical and empirical research points to potentially different patterns of labor recruitment and importance of …
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corporate tax borne by capital and labor and the efficiency effects of corporate income tax. The data for the study is compiled … period 2000-15. Our empirical estimates suggest that in India capital bears more of the burden of corporate taxes than labor …. Though it is contrary to the Harberger (1962) hypothesis that the burden of corporate tax is shifted to labor rather than …
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Croatian manufacturing firm exhibits large variation in participation in innovative work practices(IWPs) notably online teams, offline teams, employee ownership, and incentive pay. Amongst IWPs,probit estimates reveal that membership in offline teams most often yields favorable outcomes...
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We estimate the returns to seniority (the wage-tenure profile) for university faculty, and the degree to which these returns respond to entry-level salaries (or opportunity wages) a relationship unexplored in work to date. Using data on faculty at a Big Ten university (ours), we estimate...
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tight labor markets of the 1990s. Based on case study evidence from the hospital and auto supply industries, we evaluate …
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