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Job changes and hours changes: Understanding the path of labour supply adjustment

Blundell, Richard W.; Brewer, Mike; Francesconi, Marco - 2007

This paper uses British panel data to investigate single women’s labour supply changes in response to three tax and benefit policy reforms that occurred in the 1990s. These reforms changed individuals' work incentives and we use them to identify changes in labour supply. We find evidence of...

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Job Changes and Hours Changes: Understanding the Path of Labour Supply Adjustment

Francesconi, Marco; Blundell, Richard; Brewer, Mike - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper uses British panel data to investigate single women’s labour supply changes in response to three tax and benefit policy reforms that occurred in the 1990s. These reforms changed individuals’ work incentives and we use them to identify changes in labour supply. We find evidence of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763898

Convergence in institutions and market outcomes: cross-country and time-series evidence from the BEEPS surveys in transition economies

Mitra, Pradeep; Muravyev, Alexander; Schaffer, Mark E. - 2008

sources of finance. The scale of restructuring and innovation activity is as high or higher in transition economies as in …

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Did British women achieve long-term economic benefits from working in essential WWII industries?

Hart, Robert A. - 2009

Between mid-1939 and mid-1943 almost 2.2 million additional women were recruited into Britain's essential war industries. These consisted, predominantly, of young women recruited into metal and chemical industries. Much of the increased labour supply was achieved through government directed...

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Product market deregulation and labor market outcomes

Ebell, Monique; Haefke, Christian - 2003

Recently, the interactions between product market structure and labor market outcomes have come under increased scrutiny. This paper considers the dynamic relationship between product market entry regulation and equilibrium unemployment and wages, both theoretically and quantitatively. The main...

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Product market deregulation and the US employment miracle

Ebell, Monique; Haefke, Christian - 2006

We consider the dynamic relationship between product market entry regulation and equilibrium unemployment. The main theoretical contribution is combining a job matching model with monopolistic competition in the goods market and individual wage bargaining. Product market competition affects...

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Market characteristics, intra-firm coordination, and the choice of human resource management systems: Evidence from new Japanese data

Kato, Takao; Owan, Hideo - 2007

This paper explores theoretically and empirically potentially important yet often-neglected linkage between task coordination within the organization and the structure of organization and bundling of HRMPs (Human Resource Management Practices). In so doing, we also provide fresh insights on the...

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Productivity, welfare and reallocation: theory and firm-level evidence

Basu, Susanto; Pascali, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; … - 2009

We prove that the change in welfare of a representative consumer is summarized by the current and expected future values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility while taking prices parametrically. This result justifies...

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Innovations, Wages and Demand for Heterogeneous Labour: New Evidence from a Matched Employer-Employee Data-Set

Bellmann, Lutz; Schank, Thorsten - 2000

This paper examines the impact of innovations and wages on the demand for heterogeneous labour. Based on matched data from the IAB-establishment panel survey and the files of the employment statistics register for the year 1995, input shares derived from a generalised Leontief cost function are...

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Banks and innovation: microeconometric evidence on Italian firms

Benfratello, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; Sembenelli, … - 2006

set on innovation for a large number of Italian firms over the 1990's. There is evidence that banking development affects … the probability of process innovation, particularly for small firms and for firms in high(er) tech sectors and in sectors … more dependent upon external finance. The evidence for product innovation is weaker. There is also some evidence that …

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