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Offshoring and firm performance: self-selection, effects on performance, or both?

Wagner, Joachim - 2009

performance. Enterprises that relocated activities abroad in the period 2001-03 for the first time are compared to firms that did … performance, six different variants of a matching approach of firms that did and did not start to relocate abroad in 2001-03 were … performed based on a propensity score estimated using firm characteristics in 2000 and the change in the performance variable …

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Rational expectations and the puzzling no-effect of the minimum wage

Pinoli, Sara - 2010

This paper argues that expectations are an important element that needs to be included into the analysis of the effects of the minimum wage on employment. We show in a standard matching model that the observed employment effect is higher the lower is the likelihood associated with the minimum...

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Employment, exchange rates and labour market rigidity

Alexandre, Fernando; Bação, Pedro; Cerejeira, João; … - 2010

There is increasing evidence that the interaction between shocks and labour market institutions is crucial to understanding the dynamics of employment. In this paper, we show that the inclusion of labour adjustment costs in a trade model affects the impact of exchange rate movements on...

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Employment Effects of Payroll Taxes - An Empirical Test for Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Bauer, Thomas K. - 1998

This study tests to what degree the incidence of payroll taxes in Germany is on employment and whether in consequence payroll taxes, in particular social insurance contributions, are the culprit behind the growing unemployment problem. Using industry level data for 18 years (1977-1994) we...

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The Exhaustion of Unemployment Benefits in Belgium : Does it Enhance the Probability of Employment?

Cockx, Bart Leo Wim; Ries, Jean - 2004

In Belgium unemployment insurance benefits can only exhaust for one category of workers: partners of workers with (replacement) labour income (mostly women) may loose their entitlement after an unemployment duration ranging from two to eight years, depending on individual characteristics. We...

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Reducing Hours of Work: Act as a Brake Upon Employment Growth? An Analysis by Gender for the Case of Italy

Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Braschi, Cristina - 2002

In recent years the question of overtime work has become increasingly relevant as part of the wider issue of the reduction in the working day. A direct relation between policies aiming at reducing working hours, and increases in overtime work neutralising their beneficial effects on employment,...

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Fighting "low equilibria" by doubling the minimum wage? : Hungary's experiment

Kertesi, Gábor; Köllîo, János - 2003

In January 2001 the Hungarian government increased the minimum wage from Ft 25,500 to Ft 40,000. One year later the wage floor rose further to Ft 50,000. The paper looks at the short-run impact of the first hike on small-firm employment and flows between employment and unemployment. It finds...

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Job Creation, Job Destruction and Employment Growth in Transition Countries in the 90's

Faggio, Giulia; Konings, Jozef - 2001

In this paper we document and analyse gross job flows in five transition countries, Poland, Estonia, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Romania. Using comparable firm level data over the years 1993- 1997, we find that in early transition job destruction dominates job creation, while the latter is picking up...

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The Labor Market Effects of Payroll Taxes in a Middle-Income Country: Evidence from Colombia

Kugler, Adriana D.; Kugler, Maurice - 2003

demand of low-skill workers by reducing social security taxes on those with low earnings may be effective in a country like …

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Effects of employment protection and product market regulations on the Italian labor market

Kugler, Adriana D.; Pica, Giovanni - 2003

Labor market regulations have often been blamed for high and persistent unemployment in Europe, but evidence on their impact remains mixed. More recently, attention has turned to the impact of product market regulations on employment growth. This paper analyzes how labor and product market...

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