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Stuck between Surplus and Shortage : Demand for Skills in the Russian Industry
Gimpelson, Vladimir - 2011
In order to remain competitive, firms need to keep the quantity and composition of jobs close to the optimal for their given output. Since the beginning of the transition period, Russian industrial firms have been widely reporting that the quantity and composition of hired labor is far from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012756317
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The Role of Institutions and Firm Heterogeneity for Labour Market Adjustment : Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence
Gal, Peter N. - 2013
This paper investigates the role of policies and institutions for aggregate labour market dynamics during the recent financial crisis using firm-level data. First, it provides comparable estimates on firm-level labor adjustment by country, industry and firm size. Second, using variance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081802
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Labor Market Pooling, Outsourcing and Labor Contracts
Picard, Pierre M. - 2009
Economic regions, such as urban agglomerations, face external demand and price shocks that produce income risk. Workers in large and diversified agglomerations may benefit from reduced wage volatility, while firms may outsource the production of intermediate goods and realize benefits from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157029
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The Wage-Productivity Gap Revisited : Is the Labour Share Neutral to Employment?
Karanassou, Marika - 2010
with respect to productivity, we demonstrate that productivity growth affects the labour share in the long run due to … frictional growth (that is, the interplay of wage dynamics and productivity growth). In the light of this result, we consider a … (or, equivalently, the wage-productivity gap) deserves the attention of policy makers …
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Temporary Employment, Job Flows and Productivity : A Tale of Two Reforms
Cappellari, Lorenzo - 2012
overall productivity-enhancing effect. The reform of fixed-term contracts instead did not produce the intended results: it … productivity losses. We estimate substitution elasticities across various types of temporary contracts that are consistent with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106655
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Information and Communication Technologies and Skill Upgrading : The Role of Internal vs. External Labour Markets
Behaghel, Luc - 2011
Following the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT), firms are likely to face increasing skill requirements. They may react either by training or hiring the new skills, or by a combination of both. We first show that ICT are indeed skill biased and we then assess the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129927
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Social Interactions in the Labor Market
Grodner, Andrew - 2011
We examine theoretically and empirically social interactions in labor markets and how policy prescriptions can change dramatically when there are social interactions present. Spillover effects increase labor supply and conformity effects make labor supply perfectly inelastic at a reference group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120834
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One Way the Demand for Labor May Adapt to the Availability of Labor
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2012
This paper presents and tests a model that may partially explain why the demand for labor adapts to the availability of labor. In particular, I postulate that the cost of hiring declines with increases in the amount of labor available. The cost of hiring would decrease with a growth in available...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104064
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Labor Market Transparency
Wadensjo, Eskil - 2013
The labor market differs from other markets in many respects. Most important is that those who supply labor also have to deliver it in person. It means firstly that the work environment and organization of work are important for those who deliver labor, since they are in the work place....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074198
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Value Added, Wages, and Labor Market Flows at the Establishment Level
Merkl, Christian - 2018
In this paper, we analyze the connection between value added, wages, and labor market flows at the establishment level. We develop a simple model to illustrate the expected comovement of these variables. For the empirical analysis, we link the new German Administrative Wage and Labor Market Flow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926732