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Does the welfare state make older workers unemployable?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
This paper discusses the specificities of the labor market for older workers. It discusses the implications of those specificities for the effect of labor market institutions on the employability of those workers. It shows that while unemployment benefits indexed backwards and hiring costs are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506842
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Chamberlinian Imperfect Competition Among Rational Firm-Workers Coalitions: Is Underbidding by Unemployed Workers Less Effective?
Curatolo, S. - Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Parma - 2001
Macroeconomic models with imperfect competition usually result in theoretical own-price elasticities of labour demand higher than one in absolute value. Yet often empirical studies find much lower estimated elasticities. A Chamberlinian two sectors model of imperfect competition with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005272736
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Implications of Technology and Imports for Employment and Wages in Canada
C. Lee, Frank - In: Journal of Economic Integration 14 (1999), pp. 296-325
This paper analyzes the net effects of technology and import competition on employment, wages and wage inequality in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010991728
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Skill Biased Technical Change: Wage Effects from a Panel of Occupational Task Measures
Ross, Matthew - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
change on wages. The narrative describes technological change as allowing for the increased codification of routine tasks … constant measures of occupational task requirements. That approach is unable to explore how wages respond to the time variant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011262871
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Early-Retirement Programs and Wage Restraint: Empirical Evidence from France.
Gray, D.M. - Département d'Économie / Department of Economics, … - 1999
reduced labour force renders wages more resilient. The basic objective of this paper is to examine that wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005368910
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The impact of segregation on wage inequality: a look at recruitment and pay policies at the firm level
Portela, Miguel - Núcleo de Investigação em Microeconomia Aplicada … - 2001
Wage dispersion within firms has increased, whilst segregation of workers according to their schooling level has also increased, as some firms "specialise" in workers with a high level of education and other "specialise" in workers with low level of education. This study analyses the interaction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005146507
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Does Privatization Hurt Workers? Lessons from Comprehensive Manufacturing Firm Panel Data in Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine
Brown, J. David; Earle, John; Telegdy, Almos - Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, School … - 2005
We analyze the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Contrary to … negative effect in Russia, and they provide some evidence of positive foreign effects on both wages and employment in all four …
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Ownership and Wages: Estimating Public-Private and Foreign-Domestic Differentials using LEED from Hungary, 1986-2003
Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Almos - Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, School … - 2007
unobserved firm characteristics affecting the average level and trend growth of wages. These controls have little effect on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005157528
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Wages and Employment in the Liberalised Regime: A Study of Indian Manufacturing Sector
Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
sector has seen the most sweeping changes. It is now being suggested that the current jobless growth is due to high wages … wages have stagnated. Though real wages in the factories have declined employment therein has not increased. Interestingly …, both wages and employment have increased in the mid-sized units. The relationship is therefore neither unidirectional nor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260234
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Insider Bargaining Power, Starting Wages, and Involuntary Unemployment
Gottfries, N.; Sjostrom, Y. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1998
Recent analyses of wage bargaining has emphasized the distinction between insiders and outsiders, yet one typically assumes that insiders and recently hired outsiders are paid the same wage. We consider a model where the starting wage for outsiders may be lower that the insider wage, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005669586