-term consequences of doing so. The second essay, “The Role of Reservation Wages in Youth Unemployment in South Africa: A Structural … that inclusion of reservation wage data implies a labor market in which job offers are relatively frequent but at wages … Mexican labor force share on labor marketoutcomes, we find that a higher Mexican share of the labor force leads to lower wages …

, executive strengths, Mexico and business strategy, and the premium on concentration. …

public investment partly account for Mexico’s lackluster growth and productivity performance in the context of intensified …Social programs can reduce productivity and growth as they inadvertently generate perverse incentives for workers and … aggregate labor productivity. In turn, differences in the cost of labor produce differences in returns to capital across firms …

between infrastructure and private productivity. The second subject is the determinants of regional infrastructure investment … infrastructure to private production; the essays three to five study besides the productivity effects also the determinants of …

Beschäftigungsverhältnissen in der verarbeitenden Industrie nicht beeinflusst, geht es einher mit einer Zunahme der Beschäftigungsstabilität im … rigidity. The third essay analyses how different unionisation structures affect firm productivity and firm performance in a … among heterogeneous producers and increases average productivity and profit levels, firm-level bargaining allows less …

on productivity growth, and additionally export behavior has to be persistent over time. Both conditions are empirically …

-, consultation-, and co-determination rights. The effects works councils have on productivity and profits are estimated for medium …-sized manufacturing firms using information from the IAB establishment panel. The results indicate a positive effect on productivity of 6 …

Request increase in miners' wages. - No attention, up to the present, has been paid by mine managers of big companies …