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International trade and labour markets
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468108
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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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Organic traffic control
Prothmann, Holger - 2011
-levelled learning mechanism optimises signal plans on-line while a distributed coordination mechanism establishes green waves in the …
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Use of Coordination Fields in Food Economics
Toth, Jozsef - 2010
The coordination plays central role in the economics. The conventional economic theory looks at the market and … enterprise (or hierarchy) as two different, separated manner of coordination of economic goods and services. However the modern … several types of hybrid forms) of coordination (or governance structure) necessarily live together in the current economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442656
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UNDERSTANDING THE DEMAND SIDE AND COORDINATING THE SUPPLY SIDE FOR CONNECTED GOODS AND SERVICES
Ladegard, Gro; Romstad, Eirik - 2010
This paper addresses the coordination and innovation issues needed for promoting value added at the rural and regional … the supply side networks are important to solve the coordination issues, while networks for identifying and … that in addition to the time conflict, innovation and new information may make it more difficult to maintain coordination …
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GOVERNANÇA E CONVENÇÕES NO SISTEMA PRODUTIVO DO PEIXE NA REGIÃO DE DOURADOS E CAMPO GRANDE, MATO GROSSO DO SUL
Leao, Flavia Rover; Sproesser, Renato Luiz; Vilpoux, … - 2008
coordination. Conducting joint analysis of these theories set up new structures of minimized governing of the costs of transactions …
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