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Exports and Labor Demand : Evidence from Egyptian Firm-Level Data
Berg, Claudia N.; Robertson, Raymond; Lopez-Acevedo, Gladys - 2022
, Egypt requires deeper business environment reforms to incentivize large export, labor-intensive sector growth and integrate …Unlike many countries, Egypt did not experience significant labor market improvements following trade liberalization … present a simplified general equilibrium model inspired by Melitz (2003) with two sectors: one able to export and one "reserve …
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The Consequences of Being Different : Statistical Discrimination and the School-to-Work Transition
Mueller, Barbara - 2011
When information about the true abilities of job-seekers and applicants are hard to get, statistical discrimination by employers can be an efficient strategy in the hiring and wage setting process. But statistical discrimination can induce costs, if labor relations cannot be terminated in the...
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Accounting for Labor Demand Effects in Structural Labor Supply Models
Peichl, Andreas - 2010
When assessing the effects of policy reforms on the labor market, most studies only focus on labor supply. The interaction of supply and demand side is not explicitly modeled, which might lead to biased estimates of potential labor market outcomes. This paper proposes a straightforward method to...
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Extensive vs. Intensive Margin in Germany and the United States : Any Differences?
Merkl, Christian - 2010
This paper analyzes the role of the extensive vis-à-vis the intensive margin of labor adjustment in Germany and in the United States. The contribution is twofold. First, we provide an update of older U.S. studies and confirm the view that the extensive margin (i.e., the adjustment in the number...
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Domestic Multinationals, Foreign Affiliates, and Labour Demand Elasticities
Godart, Olivier - 2012
Using information on a panel of multinational firms operating in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2005, we find that labour demand in domestic multinationals is less sensitive to labour cost changes than in foreign multinationals. This difference in the wage elasticity of labour demand persists...
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Do Firms Demand Temporary Workers When They Face Workload Fluctuation? Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence on the Conditioning Effect of Employment Protection
Dräger, Vanessa - 2012
developed search-and-matching model. Our results are robust to subgroups, subsamples and alternative estimation strategies …
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Identifying Regional Labor Demand Shocks Using Sign Restrictions
Juessen, Falko - 2012
We propose using sign restrictions to identify regional labor demand shocks in a panel VAR of US federal states. Observed migration responds significantly, but less persistently than the residual-based migration measure constructed by Blanchard and Katz (1992)
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Temporary Employment, Job Flows and Productivity : A Tale of Two Reforms
Cappellari, Lorenzo - 2012
We investigate the effects of two reforms of temporary employment using panel data on Italian firms. We exploit variation in their implementation across regions and sectors for identification. Our results show that the reform of apprenticeship contracts increased job turnover and induced the...
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Estimating Employment Dynamics Across Occupations and Sectors of Industry
Cörvers, Frank - 2009
In this paper, we estimate the demand for workers by sector and occupation using system dynamic OLS techniques to account for the employment dynamics dependence across occupations and sectors of industry. The short run dynamics are decomposed into intra and intersectoral dynamics. We find that...
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Does Offshoring of Materials and Business Services Affect Employment? Evidence from a Small Open Economy
Michel, Bernhard - 2009
The fear of massive job losses has prompted a fast-growing literature on offshoring and its impact on employment in advanced economies. This paper examines the situation for Belgium. It improves the offshoring intensity measure by computing a volume measure of the share of imported intermediates...
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