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Employment and Wage Effects of Privatization : Evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Almos - 2021
We use longitudinal methods and universal panel data on 30,000 initially state-owned manufacturing firms in four transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries consistently reject job losses and they never imply large wage...
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Labor Market Adjustments after a Large Import Shock : Evidence from the German Clothing Industry and the Multi-Fibre Arrangement
Braakmann, Nils - 2009
This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by the phasing out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement. Using the German shoe industry as a control group and administrative data, we study adjustments on the individual and firm level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153171
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Does Local Business Ownership Insulate Cities from Economic Shocks?
Kolko, Jed - 2009
We assess a prominent argument for local economic policies that favor locally-owned businesses ﾖ namely, that locally-owned firms are more likely to internalize the costs to the community of decisions to reduce employment and hence help to insulate cities from adverse economic shocks. We test...
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Employment, Inequality and the UK National Minimum Wage Over the Medium-Term
Dolton, Peter - 2010
This paper assesses the impact of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) on employment and inequality in the UK over the decade since its introduction in 1999. Identification is facilitated by using variation in the bite of the NMW across local labour markets and the different sized year on year up...
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The Causal Effect of Deficiency at English on Female Immigrants' Labor Market Outcomes in the UK
Miranda, Alfonso - 2013
We investigate the extent to which deficiency at English as measured by English as Additional Language (EAL), contribute to the immigrant-native wage gap for female employees in the UK, controlling for covariates. To deal with the endogeneity of EAL and a substantial problem of self-selection...
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Immigrant Labour Market Assimilation and Arrival Effects : Evidence from the UK Labour Force Survey
Clark, Kenneth - 2006
We estimate models of earnings and employment outcomes for a sample of white and nonwhite male immigrants drawn from the Labour Force Survey between 1993 and 2002. Immigrants who arrived to enter the labour market are distinguished from those who arrived to complete their education. Diverse...
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Scaring or Scarring? Labour Market Effects of Criminal Victimisation
Bindler, Anna - 2019
Little is known about the costs of crime to victims and their families. In this paper, we use unique and detailed register data on victimisations and labour market outcomes from the Netherlands to overcome data restrictions previously met in the literature and estimate event-study designs to...
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Trade and Worker Deskilling
Dhingra, Swati - 2019
This paper presents new evidence on international trade and worker outcomes. It examines a big world event that … occurred in any of the world's four major currencies since the collapse of Bretton Woods. Exploiting this variation, the paper … intermediate imports. This provides new direct evidence that, in the modern world of global value chains, it is changes in the cost …
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What Do We Really Know About the Employment Effects of the Uk's National Minimum Wage?
Brewer, Mike - 2019
A substantial body of research on the UK's National Minimum Wage (NMW) has concluded that the the NMW has not had a detrimental effect on employment. This research has directly influenced, through the Low Pay Commission, the conduct of policy, including the subsequent introduction of the...
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Targeting Tax Relief at Youth Employment
Webb, Matthew D - 2016
Canada's Youth Hires program was a targeted employment subsidy that rebated employment insurance premiums to employers with net increases in insurable earnings for youth aged 18-24. Using a difference-in-differences approach, in each of two datasets statistically and economically significant...
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