Germany exhibits a strong reduction in domestic manufacturing production depth (bazaareffect). I argue that this reflects an unbundling of comparative advantage. Using a modelwhere Ricardian plus Heckscher-Ohlin-type comparative advantage relates to fragments ofproduction, I compare a trading...

We estimate the effects of labor market entry conditions on wages for male individuals firstentering the Austrian labor market between 1978 and 2000. We find a large negative effect ofunfavorable entry conditions on starting wages as well as a sizeable negative long-run effect.Specifically, we...

We exploit the exogenous change in marginal tax rates created by the Russian flat tax reformof 2001 to identify the effect of taxes on labor supply of males and females. We apply theweighted difference-in-difference regression approach and instrumental variables to the laborsupply function...

Whereas the number of paid overtime hours declined over the last decade, a different trend can be observed for unpaid overtime work in Germany. We look at the future consequences for overtime workers, and therefore investigate the investment character of working time. We examine whether unpaid...

With the beginnings of a worldwide burgeoning development of matched firm-employee data,it is worthwhile to examine the possibilities for using these data...

International comparisons of minimum-wage levels have largely focused on the gross valueof minimum wages, ignoring the effects of taxation on both labour costs and the net incomeof employees. This paper presents estimates of the tax burdens facing minimum-wageworkers. These are used as a basis...

We introduce search unemployment à la Pissarides into Melitz’ (2003) model of trade with heterogeneous firms. We allow wages to be individually or collectively bargained and analytically solve for the equilibrium. We find that the selection effect of trade influences labor market outcomes....

The interaction between trade liberalisation, product and process innovation, and relative skill demand is analysed in a model of international oligopoly. Lower trading barriers increase the degree of foreign competition. The competing enterprises respond by investing more aggressively in...

This paper investigates the impacts of progressive trade openness, technological externalities,and heterogeneity of individuals on the formation of entrepreneurship in a two-countryoccupation choice model. We show that trade opening gives rise to a non-monotonic processof international...

In dem vorliegenden Beitrag werden aus der Transaktionskostentheorie, der "Resource-basedTheory" und der "Power Theory" Determinanten des Outsourcing der IV abgeleitet und zueinem theoretischen Bezugsrahmen zusammengefasst. Dieser wird anhand von 34 mittelständischenUnternehmen einem Test...