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Is China's FDI Coming at the Expense of Other Countries?

Eichengreen, Barry - 2005

We analyze how China's emergence as a destination for foreign direct investment is affecting the ability of other countries to attract FDI. We do so using an approach that accounts for the endogeneity of China's FDI. The impact turns out to vary by region. China's rapid growth and attractions as...

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Employee Satisfaction, Labor Market Flexibility, and Stock Returns Around The World

Edmans, Alex - 2014

We study the relationship between employee satisfaction and abnormal stock returns around the world, using lists of the "Best Companies to Work For" in 14 countries. We show that employee satisfaction is associated with positive abnormal returns in countries with high labor market flexibility,...

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Labour Market Regulations and Capital Intensity

Cette, Gilbert - 2016

On the basis of a country*industry unbalanced panel data sample for 14 OECD countries and 18 industries covering the years 1988 to 2007, this study proposes an econometric investigation of the effects of the OECD Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) indicator on capital intensity for four...

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Economic Reforms and Labor Markets : Policy Issues and Lessons from Chile

Edwards, Sebastian - 2000

This paper deals with the reform to labor market regulation implemented by Chile during the last twenty years. We … concentrate on the reform to job security, on the decentralization of the wage bargaining process, and on the reduction in payroll …' to U.S' levels. We argue that the reduction of payroll taxes (within the context of the social security reform), and the …

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Technology and Labor Regulations

Alesina, Alberto - 2006

Many low skilled jobs have been substituted away for machines in Europe, or eliminated, much more so than in the US, while technological progress at the "top", i.e. at the high-tech sector, is faster in the US than in Europe. This paper suggests that the main difference between Europe and the US...

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The Effect of Job Security Regulations on Labor Market Flexibility : Evidence from the Colombian Labor Market Reform

Kugler, Adriana - 2004

Reform of 1990. A theoretical model illustrates the effect of dismissal costs when there is a noncompliant sector. The model … informal workers (who are not covered and were, thus, not directly affected by the reform). The differences …-in-differences results indicate increased separations and accessions for formal workers relative to informal workers after the reform …

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The Regulation of Labor

Djankov, Simeon - 2003

We investigate the regulation of labor markets through employment laws, collective bargaining laws, and social security laws in 85 countries. We find that richer countries regulate labor less than poorer countries do, although they have more generous social security systems. The political power...

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Observations and Conjectures on the U.S. Employment Miracle

Krueger, Alan B. - 1997

This paper has three goals; first, to place U.S. job growth in international perspective by exploring cross-country differences in employment and population growth. This section finds that the U.S. has managed to absorb added workers -- especially female workers -- into employment at a greater...

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Technology and Labor Regulations : Theory and Evidence

Alesina, Alberto - 2015

This paper shows that different labor market policies can lead to differences in technology across sectors in a model of labor saving technologies. Labor market regulations reduce the skill premium and as a result, if technologies are labor saving, countries with more stringent labor regulation,...

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Disability policies : Reform strategies in a comparative perspective

Böheim, René - 2016

We analyze different disability policy strategies using policy scores developed by the OECD for the period 1990 to 2007. Applying model-based and hierarchical agglomerative clustering, we investigate the existence of distinct country clusters, characterized by particular policy combinations. In...

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