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Do works councils raise or lower firm productivity? : works councils can have a positive impact on firm productivity, but only when specific conditions are in place
Hübler, Olaf - 2015
The German model of co-determination (Mitbestimmung) with works councils, in which workers are involved in the management of a company, was a role model for other countries for many years. However, since the 1990s the appeal of works councils has been declining, to the extent that now even...
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The importance of measuring dispersion in firm-level outcomes : ignoring the large variation in firm-level outcomes can create misunderstandings about the consequences of many poli...
Syverson, Chad - 2014
Recent research has revealed enormous variation in performance and growth among firms, which both drives and is driven by large reallocations of inputs and outputs across firms (churning) within industries and markets. These differences in firm-level outcomes and the associated turnover of firms...
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Hours vs employment in response to demand shocks : evaluating the labor market effects of temporary aggregate demand shocks requires analyzing both employment and hours of work
Hart, Robert A. - 2017
employment and unemployment. However, it can be seriously misleading to ignore the interrelated behavior of hours worked ….Work hours can be altered relatively speedily and flexibly, and this strongly relates to employment, labor productivity, and … unemployment outcomes. The hours–employment distinction is especially important in the evaluation of the performances of European …
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The boom in university graduates and the risk of underemployment : better information on university quality may reduce underemployment and overeducation in developing countries
Yamada, Gustavo - 2015
As the number of secondary school graduates rises, many developing countries expand the supply of public and private universities or face pressure to do so. However, several factors point to the need for caution, including weak job markets, low-quality university programs, and job-education...
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Crime and immigration : do poor labor market opportunities lead to migrant crime?
Bell, Brian - 2014
Immigration is one of the most important policy debates in Western countries. However, one aspect of the debate is often mischaracterized by accusations that higher levels of immigration lead to higher levels of crime. The evidence, based on empirical studies of many countries, indicates that...
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The effect of overtime regulations on employment : there is no evidence that being strict with overtime hours and pay boosts employment - it could even lower it
Oaxaca, Ronald L. - 2014
standard hourly wage of some workers and encourage work sharing that increases employment, with particular advantages for … female workers. However, regulation of overtime raises employment costs, setting in motion economic forces that can limit …, neutralize, or even reduce employment. And increasing the coverage of overtime pay regulations has little effect on the share of …
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The labor market in India since the 1990s : productivity growth and low unemployment have not been matched by comparable rises in wages
Dasgupta, Indraneel; Kar, Saibal - 2018
The Indian economy entered an ongoing process of trade liberalization, domestic deregulation, and privatization of public sector units in 1991. Since then, per capita output has increased significantly, while the overall unemployment rate has remained low. However, labor force participation...
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Crime and immigration : do poor labor market opportunities lead to migrant crime?
Bell, Brian - 2019
Immigration is one of the most important policy debates in Western countries. However, one aspect of the debate is often mischaracterized by accusations that higher levels of immigration lead to higher levels of crime. The evidence, based on empirical studies of many countries, indicates that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011960237
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Unemployment benefits and job match quality : do unemployment benefits help those seeking work to obtain better jobs?
Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2014
Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and reducing their incentive to look for work. This trade-off between benefits and incentives is central to the public debate about extending benefit periods during the recent...
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Do immigrant workers depress the wages of native workers? : short-term wage effects of immigrants are close to zero : and in the long term immigrants can boost productivity and wag...
Peri, Giovanni - 2014
Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that immigrants depress wages by competing with native workers, but 30 years of empirical research provide little supporting evidence to this claim. Most studies for industrialized countries have found no effect on wages, on average, and...
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