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Venezuelan migration in Peru : short-term adjustments in the labor market
Morales, Fernando; Pierola, Martha Denisse - 2020
The Venezuelan migration to Peru has been growing at fast speed since 2016 reaching a peak in 2018. Using a panel that allows us to control for individual effects, we study the heterogeneous short-term responses to the inflow of Venezuelan migrants in terms of employment, informality and...
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Human Capital and Wages in Exporting Firms
Munch, Jakob Roland; Rose Skaksen, Jan - 2009
This paper studies the link between a firms education level, export performance and wages of its workers. We argue that … that firms with high export intensities pay higher wages. However, an interaction term between export intensity and skill … intensity has a positive impact on wages and it absorbs the direct effect of the export intensity. That is, we find an export …
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The labor market worsening effects of a resource bust : evidence from the crude oil price shock in Ecuador
Parra-Cely, Sergio; Zanoni López, Wladimir - 2022
form results suggest a moderate oil price pass-through channel on wages and nonlabor earnings but not on labor supply and …
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The impact of immigration on wage dynamics : evidence from the Algerian independence war
Edo, Anthony - 2017
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On the effects of reducing the government's role in the labour market: a stylished model for Egypt with some numerical policy examples
Risager, Ole; Yang, Chang-Po - 1999
Egypt. On the basis of a fairly stylized model we find that a reduction of the Government’s involvement in the economy along … and to an improvement in Egypt’s trade balance vis-à-vis the rest of the world. …
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High-tech clusters, technology spillovers, and trade secret laws
Fosfuri, Andrea; Rønde, Thomas - 2002
We analyze firms’ incentives to cluster in an industrial district to benefit from reciprocal technology spillovers. A simple model of cumulative innovation is presented where technology spillovers arise endogenously through labor mobility. It is shown that firms’ incentives to cluster are...
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Trade secret laws, labor mobility, and innovations
Motta, Massimo; Rønde, Thomas - 2002
We show that when the researcher’s (observable but not contractible) contribution to innovation is crucial, a covenant not to compete (CNC) reduces e.ort and profits under both spot and relational contracts. Having no CNC allows the researcher to leave for a rival. This alleviates a commitment...
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Product Market Integration, Comparative Advantages and Labour Market Performance
Andersen, Torben M.; Skaksen, Jan Rose - 2006
. Wages, employment and welfare increase as a result of further product market integration. It is interesting to note that the …
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Politics in the family : nepotism and the hiring decisions of Italian firms
Gagliarducci, Stefano; Manacorda, Marco - 2016
In this paper we investigate the effect of family connections to politicians on individuals' labor market outcomes. We combine data for Italy over almost three decades from longitudinal social security records on a random sample of around 1 million private sector employees with the universe of...
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Dynamic multilateral markets
Polanski, Arnold; Lazarova, Emiliya A. - 2011
We study dynamic multilateral markets, in which players' payoffs result from coalitional bargaining. In this setting, we establish payoff uniqueness of the stationary equilibria when players exhibit some degree of impatience. We focus on market games with different player types, and derive under...
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