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What have we learned about the employment effects of severance pay? : Further iterations of Lazear et al.

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2003

In this study we examine the contribution of severance pay to employment and unemployment development using data on …-varying labor market institutions. While the positive effect of severance pay on unemployment garners some support, there is no real …

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Disaggregate Matching Functions

Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001

This paper deals with empirical matching functions. The paper is innovative in several ways. First, unlike in most of the existing literature, matching functions are estimated not only on aggregate, but also on disaggregate levels which is unusual due to the scarcity of appropriate data....

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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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Atypical work: who gets it, and where does it lead? ; some U.S. evidence using the NLSY79

Addison, John T.; Cotti, Chad D.; Surfield, Christopher J. - 2009

Atypical work arrangements have long been criticized as offering more precarious and lower paid work than regular open-ended employment. In an important paper, Booth et al. (2002) were among the first to recognize that notwithstanding their potential deficiencies, such jobs also functioned as a...

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Human Capital Accumulation, Education and Earnings Inequality

Sunde, Uwe - 2001

This paper attempts to add to the understanding of the causes for the differing recent developments in inequality in OECD countries. The similarity of shocks and technological changes affecting these countries suggests that interactions of these shocks and countryspecific institutions are...

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Collective Bargaining Systems and Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Flexibility: The Quest for Appropriate Institutional Forms in Advanced Economies

Addison, John T. - 2015

This paper addresses the design of the machinery of collective bargaining from the perspective of the needs of microeconomic and macroeconomic flexibility. In the former context, greater attention is given over to enterprise flexibility than external adjustment. In the latter context, close...

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Does the quality of industrial relations matter for the macro economy? A cross-country analysis using strikes data

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2006

indicator - and our macro performance outcome is the unemployment rate. Independent of the role of other institutions, good … industrial relations do seem to matter: greater strike volume is associated with higher unemployment. Holding country effects …

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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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Real and nominal wage rigidities and the rate of inflation : evidence from West German micro data

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bonin, Holger; Sunde, Uwe - 2003

due to nominal, but mostly real wage rigidity is substantial. The extent of real rigidity rises with inflation, whereas … the opposite holds for nominal rigidity. Overall, the incidence of wage rigidity, which accelerates unemployment growth …, is most likely minimized in an environment with moderate inflation. …

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The role of salience in performance schemes: Evidence from a field experiment

Englmaier, Florian; Roider, Andreas; Sunde, Uwe - 2012

Incentive schemes affect performance and priorities of agents but, in reality, they can be complicated even for simple tasks. We analyze the effects of the salience of incentives in a team production setting where the principal has an interest in quantity and quality of output. We use data from...

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