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The Institutional Adjustment Margin to Import Competition : Evidence from Italian Minimum Wages
Matano, Alessia - 2019
A growing body of research has contributed to understanding the labor market and political effects of globalization. This paper explores an overlooked aspect of trade-induced adjustments in the labor market: the institutional aspect. We take advantage of the two-tier collective bargaining...
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The Effect of Product Market Competition on Job Instability
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa - 2011
This paper assesses the impact of product market competition on job instability as proxied by the use of fixed-term labor contracts. Using both worker data from the Spanish Labor Force Survey and firm data from the Spanish Business Strategies Survey, I show that job instability rises with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125476
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The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Firms' Product and Labor Market Power
Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2020
This paper examines the impact of trade liberalization on firms' product and labor market power. We estimate the prevalence and intensity of firm-level price-cost markups and either wage markups or wage markdowns. We take the dependence between these model-consistent measures of product and...
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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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Performance Related Pay and Firm Productivity : New Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in Italy
Lucifora, Claudio - 2012
productivity, exploiting an exogenous variation in the institutional environment regulating collective bargaining. We find that the … introduction of collective performance related pay significantly increases productivity by around 3-5 per cent, but such effect … type of parameters used – is also relevant for firm productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107470
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The Impact of Part-Time Work on Firm Total Factor Productivity : Evidence from Italy
Devicienti, Francesco - 2015
In this paper, we explore the impact of part-time work on firm productivity. Using a large panel data set of Italian … corporations' balance sheets for the period 2000-2010, we first estimate the total factor productivity (TFP) of each firm for each …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012801
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An Evaluation of the Employment Effects of Barriers to Outsourcing
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2011
Barriers to outsourcing that are being currently implemented in the US effectively tax its companies who "export" jobs through outsourcing. The objective is to raise domestic employment. Given that many of the important international markets where the US has a comparative advantage feature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131419
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The Rise of the East and the Far East : German Labor Markets and Trade Integration
Dauth, Wolfgang - 2012
We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" – China and Eastern Europe – in the period 1988-2008 on German local labor markets. Using detailed administrative data, we exploit the cross-regional variation in initial industry structures and use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104067
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Capital Prices and Eurozone Competitiveness Differentials
Askenazy, Philippe - 2013
Competitiveness differentials are blamed for the instability of the Eurozone. Most of the analyses focus on labour costs or labour-market institutions. This paper explores an additional source of differentials in competitiveness: land and building prices. European countries, especially France,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086230
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The China Syndrome : Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States
Autor, David H. - 2013
We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on U.S. local labor markets, exploiting cross-market variation in import exposure stemming from initial differences in industry specialization and instrumenting for U.S. imports using changes in Chinese imports by...
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