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FDI, skill-specific unemployment, and institutional spillover effects
Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
effects at the intensive industry margin via trade and FDI. Moreover, the distinction between high- and low-skill workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416986
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Skill-biased labor market reforms and international competitiveness
Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 6 (2012) 2012-37, pp. 1-39
This paper proposes a multi-industry trade model with integrated capital and goods markets. Labor market imperfections in line with Mortensen and Pissarides (Job Creation and Job Destruction in the Theory of Unemployment, 1994) give rise to unemployment and a channel for the government to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010310506
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Foreign direct investment and search unemployment theory and evidence
Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - 2012
margin. Whether a country benefits from FDI in terms of unemployment depends on the respective country's net-FDI, measured as … the difference between in- and outward FDI. The derived FDI and unemployment nexus is tested employing macroeconomic data … for 19 OECD countries on unemployment, FDI, and labor market institutions. Results support the model in that net-FDI is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323793
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Skill-biased labor market reforms and international competitiveness
Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - 2012
This paper proposes a multi-industry trade model with integrated capital and goods markets. Labor market imperfections in line with Mortensen and Pissarides (1994) give rise to unemployment and a channel for the government to influence markets through institutional changes. Labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323800
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Skill-biased labor market reforms and international competitiveness
Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - 2012
-reforming countries may react to this loss in competitiveness by initiating cooperative labor market reforms instead. -- FDI … ; globalization ; search unemployment ; labor market institutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009628611
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Foreign direct investment and search unemployment theory and evidence
Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - 2012
margin. Whether a country benefits from FDI in terms of unemployment depends on the respective country's net-FDI, measured as … the difference between in- and outward FDI. The derived FDI and unemployment nexus is tested employing macroeconomic data … for 19 OECD countries on unemployment, FDI, and labor market institutions. Results support the model in that net-FDI is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009529635
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Skill-biased labor market reforms and international competitiveness
Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - 2012
cooperative labor market reforms instead. -- FDI ; search unemployment ; labor market institutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009632671
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FDI, skill-specific unemployment, and institutional spillover effects
Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - 2012
at home and abroad irrespective of their level of skill. -- FDI ; globalization ; search unemployment ; labor market … effects at the intensive industry margin via trade and FDI. Moreover, the distinction between high- and low-skill workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009409344
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FDI, Skill-Specific Unemployment, and Institutional Spillover Effects
Schmerer, Hans‐Jörg - 2012
effects at the intensive industry margin via trade and FDI. Moreover, the distinction between high- and low-skill workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112207
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Toward a theory of labor market institutions
Paul, Gilles Saint - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1999
Standard economic analysis holds that labor market rigidities are harmful for job creation and typically increase unemployment. But many orthodox reforms of the labor market have proved difficult to implement because of political opposition. For these reasons it is important to explain why we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772279