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Braun, Sebastian Till - 2010

Die vorliegende Dissertation besteht aus vier Aufsätzen, die sich mit Fragen des Außenhandels und der Arbeitsmarktökonomie auseinandersetzen. Der erste Aufsatz untersucht in einem internationalen Oligopol die Interaktion zwischen Handelsliberalisierung, Produkt- und Prozessinnovationen und...

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Aspects of Informalization and Income Distribution in Developing Countries: A Modified Specific Factors Approach

Razmi, Arslan - 2006

This paper explores aspects of increased informalization in developing countries with the help of a modified specific factors model with a fixed nominal wage in the formal sector, which is assumed to have a “lighthouse” effect on the informal sector wage. Both sectors produce a tradable good...

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Employment fluctuations with downward wage rigidity : the role of moral hazard

Costain, James S.; Jansen, Marcel - 2006

This paper considers a dynamic matching model with imperfectly observable worker effort. In equilibrium, the wage distribution is truncated from below by a no-shirking condition. This downward wage rigidity induces the same type of inefficient churning and "contractual fragility" as in Ramey and...

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The incidence of nominal and real wage rigidity : an individual-based sectoral approach

Messina, Julián; Izquierdo Peinado, Mario - 2010

This paper presents estimates based on individual data of downward nominal and real wage rigidities for thirteen sectors in Belgium, Denmark, Spain and Portugal. Our methodology follows the approach recently developed for the International Wage Flexibility Project, whereby resistance to nominal...

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Contract staggering and unemployment during the great recession : evidence from Spain

Díez-Catalán, Luis; Villanueva López, Ernesto - 2014

Una caída de la actividad agregada conlleva una reducción de la demanda de empleo, que es tanto mayor cuanto más rígidos sean los salarios. Este artículo examina el impacto de la rigidez salarial en España sobre la evolución del empleo entre 2009 y 2010. La extensión de los convenios...

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Staggered contracts and unemployment during recessions

Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Díez-Catalán, Luis; …

This paper studies the impact of downward wage rigidity on wage and employment dynamics after the outbreak of major recessions in Spain. Downward wage rigidity stems from collective agreements, which set province-sector-skill-specific minimum wage floors for all workers. By exploiting variation...

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A Dyad Model of Calling Behaviour with Tie Strength Dynamics

Shi, Mengze; Yang, Botao; Chiang, Jeongwen - University of Toronto; University of Southern California; … - 2009

This paper investigates the dynamic relation between callers' socialties and their wireless phone service consumption. We construct a largepair-level panel dataset with information on the number of each pair'scommon contacts, calling activities, prices, and each caller'scharacteristics over a...

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Wages and reciprocity in the workplace

Barr, Abigail; Serneels, Pieter - 2004

We explore the role of reciprocity in wage determination by combining experimentaland survey data. The experiment is … reciprocity and individual wages. However, the direction of causality is unclear. Various aspects of the distribution of … reciprocity have a positive effect on wages, while the spread in the distribution (standard deviation) has a strong significant …

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The Prophecies of the Naysayers - Assessing the Vision of the Protectionists in the U.S.-Canada Debate on Agricultural Reciprocity, 1846-1854

Kerr, William A.; Forgrave, Robert J. - 2003

the debate surrounding a proposed reciprocity agreement between the United States and British North America over the … the evidence from the subsequent period of reciprocity. A number of reasons for the inaccuracy of the projections are …

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Tit for Tat: Foundations of Preferences for Reciprocity in Strategic Settings

Segal, Uzi; Sobel, Joel - 1999

This paper assumes that in addition to the conventional (selfish) preferences over outcomes, players in a strategic environment have preferences over strategies. In the context of two-player games, it provides conditions under which a player's preferences over strategies can be represented as a...

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