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Sind Nominallöhne starr? Neuere Evidenz und wirtschaftspolitische Implikationen
Beissinger, Thomas; Knoppik, Christoph - 2003
In the presence of downwardly rigid nominal wages, low inflation may lead to higher equilibrium unemployment by …Bei Vorliegen nach unten starrer Nominallöhne erschwert niedrige Inflation Reallohnanpassungen und führt so … möglicherweise zu erhöhter gleichgewichtiger Arbeitslosigkeit. Dieser Aufsatz analysiert die wachsende Evidenz zu nach unten starren …
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The Economics of Employment Protection
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2001
mainly on dismissals protection, distinguishing between the themes of employment and unemployment development and labor … market dynamics proper. Our discussion of employment and unemployment largely deals with the effect of employment protection …
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The great recession of 2008 - 2009: Causes, consequences and policy responses
Verick, Sher; Islam, Iyanatul - 2010
collapse and rising unemployment, this paper stresses that the impact of the crisis is rather diverse, reflecting differences …
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Wages and International Rent Sharing in Multinational Firms
Budd, John W.; Konings, Jozef; Slaughter, Matthew J. - 2002
We use a unique firm-level panel data set of multinational parents and their foreign affiliates to analyze whether profits are shared across borders within multinational firms. Using both fixed-effects and generalized method-of-moments estimators, affiliate wage levels are estimated to respond...
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What determines the share of labour in national income? A cross-country analysis
Guerriero, Marta; Sen, Kunal - 2012
Recent evidence on functional income distribution suggests that the shares of capital and labour in national income vary considerably both over time and across countries. Specifically, there seems to be a general reduction in the labour share around the world, in particular from the mid-1980s...
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Human capital and growth: Specification matters
Sunde, Uwe; Vischer, Thomas - 2011
This paper suggests that the weak empirical effect of human capital on growth in existing cross-country studies is partly the result of an inappropriate specification that does not account for the different channels through which human capital affects growth. A systematic replication of earlier...
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Fewer jobs or smaller paychecks? Aggregate crisis impacts in selected middle-income countries
Khanna, Gaurav; Newhouse, David; Paci, Pierella - 2011
This paper reviews evidence from 44 middle income countries on how the recent financial crisis affected jobs and workers' income. In addition to providing a rare assessment of the magnitude of the impact across several middle-income countries, the paper describes how labor markets adjusted and...
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Gender gaps across countries and skills: Supply, demand and the industry structure
Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2011
The gender wage gap varies widely across countries and across skill groups within countries. Interestingly, there is a positive cross-country correlation between the unskilled-to-skilled gender wage gap and the corresponding gap in hours worked. Based on a canonical supply and demand framework,...
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The wage curve reloaded
Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2005
pay and the local unemployment rate - in modern U.S. data. Consistent with recent evidence from more than 40 other …'s theoretical framework: (i) wages are higher in states with more generous unemployment benefits, (ii) the perceived probability of … job-finding is lower in states with higher unemployment, and (iii) employees are less happy in states that have higher …
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The Size of the Shadow Economies of 145 Countries all over the World : First Results over the Period 1999 to 2003
Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2004
Pacific islands 33.4% and 4 remaining Communist countries 21.8%. An increasing burden of taxation, high unemployment and low …
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