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Reforming German Labor Market Institutions : A Dual Path to Flexibility
Eichhorst, Werner - 2009
Germany has always been one of the prime examples of institutional complementarities between social insurance, a rather …
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Trade and Informality in the Presence of Labor Market Frictions and Regulations
Dix-Carneiro, Rafael; Goldberg, Pinelopi; Meghir, Costas; … - 2021
We build an equilibrium model of a small open economy with labor market frictions and imperfectly enforced regulations. Heterogeneous firms sort into the formal or informal sector. We estimate the model using data from Brazil, and use counterfactual simulations to understand how trade affects...
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'Marginal Employment' : Stepping Stone or Dead End? Evaluating the German Experience
Freier, Ronny; Steiner, Viktor - 2021
with a small negative cumulative earnings effect for older workers in west Germany …
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On the Potential Interaction between Labour Market Institutions and Immigration Policies
Cigagna, Claudia - 2015
Using data on migration flows for a sample of 15 OECD countries over the period 1980-2006, we analyse the effect of unemployment and labour institutions such as employment protection legislation, coverage of unemployment benefits, minimum wages, union power and tax wedge on migration flows. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023016
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Contingent Employment and Labour Market Pathways : Bridge or Trap?
McVicar, Duncan - 2017
The debate over whether contingent (and typically more precarious) employment acts as a bridge to permanent employment, or as a trap, has tended to focus on transitions rather than longer-run pathways. This approach cannot accurately identify indirect pathways from contingent to permanent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956012
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The Unequal Incidence of Non-Standard Employment Across Occupational Groups : An Empirical Analysis of Post-Industrial Labour Markets in Germany and Europe
Marx, Paul - 2011
The paper addresses an often neglected question in labour market research: to which extent do outcomes aggregated on the national level disguise occupational diversity in employment conditions? In particular, how and why do occupational groups differ with regard to the incidence of non-standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129099
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Job Loss and Immigrant Labor Market Performance
Bratsberg, Bernt - 2016
While integration policies typically focus on labor market entry, we present evidence showing that immigrants from low‐income countries tend to have more precarious jobs, and face more severe consequences of job loss, than natives. For immigrant workers in the Norwegian private sector, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999010
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Explaining the Unexplained : Residual Wage Inequality, Manufacturing Decline, and Low-Skilled Immigration
Gould, Eric D. - 2015
This paper investigates whether the increasing "residual wage inequality" trend is related to manufacturing decline and the influx of low-skilled immigrants. There is a vast literature arguing that technological change, international trade, and institutional factors have played a significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016387
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How Do Native and Migrant Workers Contribute to Innovation? A Study on France, Germany and the UK
Fassio, Claudio - 2015
migrants we implement instrumental variable strategies using both two-stage least squares with external instruments and GMM … accordingly. Our results show that highly-educated migrants have a positive effect on innovation even if the effect is smaller …-tech sectors and among highly-educated migrants from other European countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021957
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Immigration, Integration and the Labour Market : Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands
Euwals, Rob; Dagevos, Jaco; Gijsberts, Mérove; … - 2007
Germany and the Netherlands. We compare labour market outcomes of Turkish immigrants, including both the first and second … large for Germany. Differences in past immigration policies between Germany and the Netherlands are likely to be important …
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