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Financing constraints, employment, and labor compensation: evidence from the subprime mortgage crisis
Popov, Alexander; Rocholl, Jörg - 2015
credit relationships with affected banks experienced a significant decline in employment and in labor compensation relative … to firms whose credit relationships were with healthy banks. We also find that the employment effect increases, and the … wage effect decreases with firm size. The decline in employment at firms attached to affected banks appears to be more long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605866
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Financing Constraints, Employment, and Labor Compensation : Evidence from the Subprime Mortgage Crisis
Popov, Alexander A. - 2015
credit relationships with affected banks experienced a significant decline in employment and in labor compensation relative … to firms whose credit relationships were with healthy banks. We also find that the employment effect increases, and the … wage effect decreases with firm size. The decline in employment at firms attached to affected banks appears to be more long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019626
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Job flow dynamics and firing restrictions: evidence from Europe
Messina, Julián; Vallanti, Giovanna - 2006
We exploit homogeneous firm level data of manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors to study the impact of firing restrictions on job flow dynamics across 14 European countries. We find that more stringent firing laws dampen the response of job destruction to the cycle, thus making job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604648
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What are the main obstacles to hiringafter recessions in Europe?
Savšek, Simon - 2018
evidence on the impacts of labour market reforms, which seem to have a potential to address impediments towards employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011916857
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Inter-industry Wage Differentials : How Much Does Rent Sharing Matter?
Du Caju, Philip - 2009
This paper investigates inter-industry wage differentials in Belgium, taking advantage of access to a unique matched employer-employee data set covering all the years from 1999 to 2005. Findings show the existence of large wage differentials among workers with the same observed characteristics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155793
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Trade with central and eastern Europe: Is it really a threat to wages in the west?
Polgár, Éva Katalin; Wörz, Julia - 2010
This paper analyses the relationship between openness to trade and wages at the industry level (15 manufacturing industries) in 25 EU countries over the period from 1995 to 2005. By applying a cross-country and industry-specific approach, it is possible to control for unobserved heterogeneity at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605290
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Wage structure effects of international trade: evidence from a small open economy
Du Caju, Philip; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan - 2011
In the last decades, international trade has increased between industrialised countries and between high- and low-wage countries. This important change has raised questions on how international trade affects the labour market. In this spirit, this paper aims to investigate the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605371
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Managers’ mobility, trade performance, and wages
Mion, Giordano; Opromolla, Luca David - 2013
Knowledge is key to the success of a firm. Firms and their managers acquire knowledge via channels which are often difficult to track down and quantify. By matching employer-employee data with trade data at the firm level we show that the export experience acquired by managers in previous firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605641
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Trade with Central and Eastern Europe : Is it Really a Threat to Wages in the West?
Polgar, Eva Katalin - 2010
This paper analyses the relationship between openness to trade and wages at the industry level (15 manufacturing industries) in 25 EU countries over the period from 1995 to 2005. By applying a cross-country and industry-specific approach, it is possible to control for unobserved heterogeneity at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138239
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Managers’ Mobility, Trade Performance, and Wages
Mion, Giordano - 2013
Knowledge is key to the success of a firm. Firms and their managers acquire knowledge via channels which are often difficult to track down and quantify. By matching employer-employee data with trade data at the firm level we show that the export experience acquired by managers in previous firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074756