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Do labour market institutions matter? Micro-level wage effects of international outsourcing in three European countries
Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger; Munch, Jakob Roland - 2007
labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265532
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The Impacts of Trade Liberalization on Employment and Wages in Tunisian Industries
Haouas, Ilham; Yagoubi, Mahmoud; Heshmati, Almas - 2003
This paper investigates short and long-run effects of trade liberalization on employment and wages. Employment and wage equations are estimated using data (1971?96) for importable and exportable sectors in Tunisia. Causality tests show that causality is unidirectional. Wages strongly causes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262111
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Meta-analysis of empirical evidence on the labour market impacts of immigration
Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2008
The increasing proportion of immigrants in the population of many countries has raised concerns about the 'absorption capacity' of the labour market, and fuelled extensive empirical research in countries that attract migrants. In previous papers we synthesized the conclusions of this empirical...
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Offshoring and job stability: Evidence from Italian manufacturing
Lo Turco, Alessia; Maggioni, Daniela; Picchio, Matteo - 2012
We study the relationship between offshoring and job stability in Italy in the period 1995-2001 by using an … stability. Service offshoring and material purchases from developed countries foster job-to-job transitions within manufacturing … material offshoring to low income countries which drives blue collar workers out of manufacturing. Therefore, policy …
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Offshoring, wages and job security of temporary workers
Görg, Holger; Görlich, Dennis - 2012
We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular …. Data are taken from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), linked with industry-level data on offshoring of materials and … significant reduction in wages as materials offshoring increases, while permanent workers' wages are unaffected or even tend to …
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Specialization, outsourcing and wages
Munch, Jakob Roland; Rose Skaksen, Jan - 2005
This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages. In contrast to the standard approach in the literature, we focus on domestic outsourcing as well as foreign outsourcing. By using a simple theoretical model, we argue that, if outsourcing is associated with specialization gains...
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Wage dispersion and decentralization of wage bargaining
Dahl, Christian M.; le Maire, Daniel; Munch, Jakob R. - 2011
This paper studies how decentralization of wage bargaining from sector to firm-level influences wage levels and wage dispersion. We use detailed panel data covering a period of decentralization in the Danish labor market. The decentralization process provides variation in the individual worker's...
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From Parent to Child: Early Labor Market Experiences of Second-Generation Immigrants in the Netherlands
van Ours, Jan C.; Veenman, Justus - 2002
This paper is on the early labor market experiences of second-generation immigrants in the Netherlands. We find that only for employment rates there are some differences a cross ethnic groups. Conditional on having a job there is hardly any difference in wages and other job characteristics...
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Dutch Migrants in New Zealand: Did they Fare Well?
Hartog, Joop; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2000
We analyse postwar Dutch migration to New Zealand. We document that history, reflect on analytical and econometric modelling and then combine a sample of Dutch migrants in New Zealand with a representative sample of Dutch in The Netherlands to estimate wage equations simultaneously with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262414
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Outsourcing of unionized firms and the impact of labor market policy reforms
Koskela, Erkki; Schöb, Ronnie - 2008
This paper shows that outsourcing of parts of workforce in unionized firms leads to wage moderation both in the case of strategic and flexible outsourcing and as long as the share of the outsourced workforce is not too large, this wage-moderation effect on domestic employment outweighs the...
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