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distinct phenotypes: Caucasian, mestizo and indigenous. We also randomly vary marital status across gender and phenotype. Hence …
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In this paper we empirically examine the impact of labor market flexibility on FDI flows to oil-rich GCC and compare it to middle income countries in 2006-2011. We account for potential endogeneity and nonstationarity and adopt system GMM and IV estimation methodologies. Our findings show that...
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law that may have influenced the bargaining power of health care unions. …
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Evidence from a survey of 1800 small and medium sized businesses is assembled to provide estimates of the effect on employment of unfair dismissal laws. The report also provides a discussion of the evidence on the welfare effects of unfair dismissal laws.
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This paper develops a theoretical wage bargaining model, which yields a non-linear wage equation with a positive long term impact of taxes on wages as a special case. The elasticity of the replacement rate depends on the unemploy¬ment rate. The wage equation is estimated on time series data of...
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In most traditional macro-economic models of the Netherlands the wage equation is specified by a Phillips curve, in which wage growth is negatively related to the unemployment rate. This paper shows, however, that wage formation can better be described by the so-called wage curve, in which the...
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This paper presents the first joint evaluation of the two major labour market reforms implemented in Spain to foster permanent employment in 1994 and 1997. The 1994 reform restored the principle of causality in the application of temporary contracts and the 1997 reform introduced a new permanent...
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and show the impact of increases in health costs, as well as of changes in tax benefits of health insurance expenses, on …In this paper, we present a less-explored channel through which health insurance impacts productivity: by offering … health insurance, employers reduce the expected time workers spend out of work in sick days. Using data from the Medical …
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We study gender discrimination in hiring markets by sending 19,130 fictitious matched resumes in response to … discrimination. On the other hand, this evidence is consistent with statistics that describe discrimination based on gender … respect to regional income disparity, we find that the differences in gender discrimination between first- and second …
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mitigating discrimination in employment. However, accounting for sub-national regional gender heterogeneity reveals that the …
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