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This paper presents a new data set collected on representative samples across 6 countries: China, South Korea, Japan …
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management practices in Germany, we calculate management scores for firms as in Bloom et al. (2013). These indicate how …
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For more than 80 years, many macroeconomic analyses have been premised on the assumption that workers' nominal wage rates cannot be cut. Contrary evidence from household surveys reasonably has been discounted on the ground that the measurement of frequent wage cuts might be an artifact of...
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Census data from international sources covering 77% of the world's migrant population indicate that the skill …
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All industrialized countries have Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) for permanent workers and Restrictions on the use of Temporary Employment (RTE). The (ambiguous) effects of these on the levels of employment and unemployment have been extensively studied, but nothing is known empirically...
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France, Germany, the UK and Ireland, and the contribution of tax and benefit policy changes. The period examined, 2008 to … France. Relative poverty and, notably, child poverty, have increased in Germany due to policy responses combined with the …
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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...
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first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading … actor on the world market for manufactured goods. It documents that firms that export to countries inside the euro-zone are … more productive than firms that sell their products in Germany only, but less productive than firms that export to …
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We describe the nature, scope and effects of various non-mandated participatory work practices in Japan, the U.S. and … seemingly disparate forms of work practices in different parts of the world, we shed light on how participatory work practices …
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demonstrate the application of these new measures to analyze the development of poverty and richness over time in Germany, to … compare Germany to many other European countries and to investigate the impact of tax reforms on poverty and richness. Using …
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