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Flexible Workplace Practices and Labor Productivity

Bauer, Thomas K. - 2003

Using a German employer-employee matched panel data set this paper examines the effects of High Performance Workplace Systems (HPWSs) on labor productivity (defined as sales per worker) and labor efficiency (defined as the inverse of unit labor costs). The estimation results indicate that simple...

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In-work benefits and the Nordic model

Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Tonin, Mirco - 2012

Welfare benefits in the Nordic countries are often tied to employment. We argue that this is one of the factors behind the success of the Nordic model, where a comprehensive welfare state is associated with high employment. In a general equilibrium setting, the underlining mechanism works...

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Offshoring, Endogenous Skill Decision, and Labor Market Outcomes

Agnese, Pablo; Hromcová, Jana - 2016

addition to this, we also consider labor flexibility as an effective policy to deal with the adverse welfare effects of …

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Why Are European Countries Diverging in Their Unemployment Experience?

2004

During the nineties, unemployment has fallen in a number of European countries while it has remained high in others. The paper discusses potential causes for that evolution in light of recent economic research, emphasizing obstacles to reform due to political constraints, the prevalence of...

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IAB Employment Subsample 1975-1995 Opportunities for Analysis Provided by the Anonymised Subsample

Klose, Christoph; Haas, Anette; Bender, Stefan - 2000

The IAB employment subsample is now available for researchers in a third, anonymised version. Following the so-called basic file and the regional file from the IAB employment subsample, which encompassed the years 1975 to 1990, the actualized version of the basic file covers now the years 1975...

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Flexibility vs. Rigidity: Does Spain have the worst of both Worlds?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2000

In this paper we study the structure of labor market flows in Spain and compare them with France and the US. We characterize a number of empirical regularities and stylized facts. One striking result is that the job finding rate is slightly higher than in France, while the job loss rate is much...

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Institutional arrangements, employment performance and the quality of work

Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul; Tobsch, Verena - 2009

of labor market adaptability. The paper presents a quantitative indicator that tries to avoid a simplified flexibility …-rigidity dichotomy and provides a detailed picture of the varying institutional configurations by which flexibility is achieved. In order … to capture different patterns of flexibility, we differentiate between five types of flexibility which can be combined …

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Enforcement of regulation, informal labor and firm performance

Almeida, Rita K.; Carneiro, Pedro - 2005

This paper investigates how enforcement of labor regulation affects the firm's use of informal employment and its impact on firm performance. Using firm level data on informal employment and firm performance, and administrative data on enforcement of regulation at the city level, we show that in...

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The employment of temporary agency workers in the UK: with or against the trade unions?

Böheim, René; Zweimüller, Martina - 2009

A firm's decision to employ agency workers may be perceived as a replacement of directly employed workers or as way to curb union power, which trade unions would oppose. Alternatively, trade unions may encourage the (temporary) employment of agency workers in a firm, if they manage to bargain...

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Non-standard employment and labour force participation: A comparative view of the recent development in Europe

Schmid, Günther - 2010

This paper presents - in a new way of examination and portrayal - the extent and changes of nonstandard employment relationships (part-time work, fixed-term contracts, and selfemployment) in 24 EU member states at two points of time, in 1998 and 2008, on the basis of the European Labour Force...

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