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Employment effects of longer working hours : extending work hours may reduce employment in the short term but may increase it in the long term if hourly pay remains constant
Schank, Thorsten - 2015
standard work hours during the 1980s and 1990s, attempting to boost employment by splitting up a fixed number of worker … reduce their labor costs in the early 2000s. The employment effect of increased standard hours depends on the time horizon …
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Efficiency wages : variants and implications wages affect productivity and non-wage costs ; this carries important labor market and policy implications
Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2016
Higher wages increase labor costs but also improve the productivity of the labor force in several ways. If firms take this into account and set their wages accordingly, the resulting wages could fail to adjust demand and supply but may induce phenomena like over-education, discrimination,...
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Gender wage discrimination : does the extent of competition in labor markets explain why female workers are paid less than men?
Hirsch, Boris - 2016
There are pronounced and persistent wage differences between men and women in all parts of the world. A significant element of these wage disparities can be attributed to differences in worker and workplace characteristics, which are likely to mirror differences in worker productivity. However,...
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Measuring flows of international migration : consistent measures of migration are needed to understand patterns and impacts on labor market outcomes
Raymer, James - 2017
International migration alters the socio-economic conditions of the individuals and families migrating as well as the host and sending countries. The data to study and to track these movements, however, are largely inadequate or missing. Understanding the reasons for these data limitations and...
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Flat-rate tax systems and their effect on labor markets : despite their theoretical benefits, flat taxes have been tried only in a few formerly socialist countries
Peichl, Andreas - 2014
The potential economic outcomes resulting from a flat rate of income tax have been the subject of an ongoing academic and political debate. Many observers have suggested that the introduction of a flat tax would be beneficial for a country's economy, having a positive influence on the labor...
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Impacts of regulation on eco-innovation and job creation : do regulation-induced environmental innovations affect employment?
Horbach, Jens - 2016
positive growth and employment effects. Recent empirical analyses show that the introduction of cleaner process innovations …, rather than product-based ones, may also lead to higher employment. The rationale is that cleaner technologies lead to cost …
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Do product market reforms stimulate employment, investment, and innovation? : reducing entry barriers and increasing competition can be beneficial for the economy, under certain co...
Schiantarelli, Fabio - 2016
Most OECD countries have recently introduced product market reforms with the objective of lowering barriers to entry and increasing competition in many sectors, such as telecommunications, utilities, and transport. The timing and extent of regulatory reform have varied significantly, starting in...
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Impacts of regulation on eco-innovation and job creation : do regulation-induced environmental innovations affect employment?
Horbach, Jens - 2020
positive growth and employment effects. Recent empirical analyses show that the introduction of cleaner process innovations …, rather than product-based ones, may also lead to higher employment. The rationale is that cleaner technologies lead to cost …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013252938
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Employment protection legislation in transition and emerging markets : although market failures mean employment protection is necessary excessive protection can be counterproductiv...
Muravyev, Alexander - 2014
necessarily increasing general unemployment. However, recent evidence from transition and emerging economies shows that employment …Employment protection legislation aims to shield employees against unfair dismissal and earning reductions at the time … of job loss. Theory suggests that employment protection stabilizes employment over cyclical upturns and downturns without …
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