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Product Market Deregulation and the U.S. Employment Miracle
Ebell, Monique - 2006
theoretical contribution is combining a job matching model with monopolistic competition in the goods market and individual wage … bargaining. Product market competition affects unemployment by two channels: the output expansion effect and a countervailing … effect due to a hiring externality. Competition is then linked to barriers to entry. We calibrate the model to US data and …
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Employment Effects of Privatisation and Foreign Acquisition of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises
Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger; Maioli, Sara - 2021
This paper investigates the effects of domestic privatisation or foreign acquisition of Chinese State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) on employment growth, using firm level data for China and a combination of propensity score matching and difference-in-differences in order to identify the causal...
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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
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 cuts from privatization to either foreign or domestic owners. The … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude …
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Household Labor Supply and Home Services in a General-Equilibrium Model with Heterogeneous Agents
Bredemeier, Christian - 2009
We propose a new explanation for differences and changes in labor supply by gender and marital status, and in particular for the increase in married women's labor supply over time. We argue that this increase as well as the relative constancy of other groups' hours are optimal reactions to...
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Is There Scope for Gains from Revenue-Neutral Labor Tax Reforms with Flexible Outsourcing?
Koskela, Erkki - 2009
We study the effects of revenue-neutral labor tax reforms in an imperfectly competitive domestic labor market under Nash wage bargaining and flexible outsourcing. A revenue-neutral increase in the wage tax progression will decrease the negotiated wage rate, increase domestic labor demand and...
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The Economic Impact of Non-Communicable Disease in China and India : Estimates, Projections, and Comparisons
Bloom, David E. - 2013
This paper provides estimates of the economic impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in China and India for the period 2012-2030. Our estimates are derived using WHO's EPIC model of economic growth, which focuses on the negative effects of NCDs on labor supply and capital accumulation. We...
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Why are Married Men Working so Much? The Macroeconomics of Bargaining between Spouses
Knowles, John - 2021
The rise in per-capita labor over the last 30 years is difficult to explain in a standard macroeconomic model because rising wages of women should have lead to a large rise in husband's leisure. This paper argues that home production and bargaining are both essential for understanding these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316932
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Employment Outcomes and the Interaction between Product and Labor Market Deregulation : Are They Substitutes or Complements?
Fiori, Giuseppe - 2007
countries over the period 1980-2002, we present evidence that product market deregulation is more effective at the margin when … labor market regulation is high. Moreover, there is evidence in our sample that product market deregulation promotes labor … market deregulation. We show that these results are mostly consistent with the basic predictions of a standard bargaining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777020
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A Bitter Medicine? Short-Term Employment Impact of Deregulation in Network Industries
Bassanini, Andrea - 2015
deregulation in retail distribution has no (or even positive) short-term employment effects. This discrepancy is likely driven by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016301
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A Positive Analysis of Targeted Employment Protection Legislation
Dolado, Juan Jose; Jansen, Marcel; Jimeno, Juan F. - 2007
In many countries, Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) establishes less strict dismissal procedures for specific groups of workers. This paper builds a simple matching model with heterogeneous workers in order to analyze this feature of EPL. We use the model to analyze the effects of reforms...
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