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Globalization and Labor Market Institutions: International Empirical Evidence
Potrafke, Niklas - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der … - 2013
A widespread concern is that labor market institutions erode in the course of globalization, which, in turn, decreases … employment and wages. By using panel data and crosssectional data, I investigate the influence of globalization on labor market … regulation. I use the indicators of labor market institutions by Gwartney et al. (2012) and the KOF indices of globalization. To …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010627552
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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), 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...
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Reconciling the Relevance of Labor Market Institutions in Search and Matching Models with International Evidence
Hirata, Wataru - Bank of Japan - 2012
This paper examines whether search and matching frictions in labor markets can account for cross-country differences in business cycle properties. The particular interest is the joint effect of two institutional variables, employment protection and the replacement income of unemployed workers. I...
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Political Instability and Labor Market Institutions
Lucifora, Claudio; Moriconi, Simone - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper investigates the relationship between political instability and labor market institutions. We develop a theoretical model in which some features of the political process, by reducing the future yields of policy interventions, induce an incumbent government to choose labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010541269
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Crisis, What Crisis? Patterns of Adaptation in European Labor Markets
Eichhorst, Werner; Feil, Michael; Marx, Paul - In: Applied Economics Quarterly (formerly: Konjunkturpolitik) 61 (2010) Supplement, pp. 29-64
The current crisis, while of a global nature, has affected national labor markets to a varying extent. While some countries have experienced a steep increase in unemployment, employment in other developed economies has not fallen in parallel with a significant decline in GDP. Our analysis shows...
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The Gradual Transformation of Continental European Labor Markets: France and Germany Compared
Eichhorst, Werner - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Germany and France are both Continental European welfare states with severe labor market problems such as low employment and high and persistent unemployment which can be explained by labor market institutions that inhibit labor market adaptability. This paper analyzes recent reforms in core...
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WHY THERE IS DEBATE OVER LABOR MARKET INSTITUTIONS: A PERSPECTIVE ON LONG-TERM UNEMPLOYMENT RATE
DING, Hong - In: Applied Econometrics and International Development 8 (2008) 2, pp. 37-54
This paper tests economic impacts of labor market institutions on employment of OECD nations from the perspective of long-term unemployment rate (LUR) in order to alleviate endogeneity bias existed in the current literature on this topic, which is the root of the long-lasting debate over...
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Labor market institutions, firm-specific skills, and trade patterns
Tang, Heiwai - In: Journal of International Economics 87 (2012) 2, pp. 337-351
This paper studies how a country's labor market institutions, by affecting workers' skill acquisition, can shape its export patterns. I develop an open-economy model in which workers undertake non-contractible activities to acquire firm-specific skills on the job. In the model, labor market...
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Making Sense of Bolkestein-Bashing: Trade Liberalization under Segmented Labor Markets
Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Trade liberalization is often met with sharp opposition. Recent examples include the so-called "Bolkestein" directive, which allows service providers from a given EU member to temporarily work in another member country. One way to view such a reform is that it simply widens the range of goods...
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Changes in Collective Bargaining in the U.K.
Addison, John T.; Siebert, W. Stanley - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Perhaps no other country in recent years has witnessed greater change in its collective bargaining framework than the UK. This paper describes the dramatic developments and their consequences. Like Gaul, it is in three parts. The first part charts the six major pieces of legislation -...
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