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Wage setting and wage flexibility in Ireland - Results from a firm-level survey
Keeney, Mary; Lawless, Martina - 2010
This paper investigates the wage-setting behaviour of Irish firms. We place particular emphasis on the use of flexible pay components and examine how these allow firms to deal with shocks requiring a reduction in costs without having to cut base wages. The results presented in this paper are...
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Benchmarking, social partnership and higher remuneration: Wage settling institutions and the public-private sector wage gap in Ireland
Kelly, Elish; McGuinness, Seamus; O'Connell, Philip - 2008
in Ireland. In particular, we investigate the impact of awards implemented under a number of wage setting institutions on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277648
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Zur Entwicklung von Vergütungssystemen in deutschen Großsportvereinen
Thieme, Lutz; Falk, Rüdiger - 2021
Im organisierten Sport, insbesondere in den Großvereinen des Freiburger Kreises, gibt es eine zunehmende Professionalisierung. Dieses hauptamtliche Personal muss vergütet werden. Zu den Vergütungsstrukturen, Vergütungsniveaus und Vergütungssystemen gibt es, wie in großen Teilen der...
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Outward FDI and the investment development path of a late-industrialising economy: Evidence from Ireland
Barry, Frank; Görg, Holger; MacDowell, Andrew - 2001
systematically related to its level of economic development. Ireland is an interesting test case because of the importance of inward … important differences between Ireland's outward FDI and the bulk of FDI occurring in the world economy however. Ireland …
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Fertility in South Dublin a century ago: A first look
Guinnane, Timothy W.; Moehling, Carolyn M.; Ó Gráda, … - 2001
Ireland’s relatively late and feeble fertility transition remains poorly-understood. The leading explanations stress … Ireland to study fertility in Dublin and Belfast. Our larger project aims to use the extensive literature on the fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293779
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Coagglomeration and Growth
Bertinelli, Luisito; Barrios Cobos, Salvador; Strobl, Eric - 2003
We study the coagglomeration of domestic plants and foreign multinationals and the impact of this on domestic plant growth using data for Irish manufacturing. To this end we make use of the index developed by Ellison and Glaeser (1997) and find coagglomeration to be important for a number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297290
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Job loss by wage level: Lessons from the Great Recession in Ireland
Nolan, Brian; Voitchovsky, Sarah - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 5 (2016) 7, pp. 1-25
This paper explores the incidence of job loss by wage level during the Great Recession, using data for Ireland. Ireland …
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Earnings Inequality, Returns to Education and Immigration into Ireland
Barrett, Alan; FitzGerald, John; Nolan, Brian - 2000
paper we examine what has happened to earnings inequality and the returns to education in Ireland between 1987 and 1997. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262376
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The determinants of firm start-up size: a comparison of Ireland and Portugal
Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric; Ruane, Frances P. - 2000
sector in Ireland, and compare our results with recent findings for Portuguese manufacturing industries (Mata and Machado …
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Using a census to assess the reliability of a national household survey for migration research: the case of Ireland
Barrett, Alan; Kelly, Elish - 2008
Much research has been conducted on immigration into Ireland in recent years using data from the Quarterly National … Household Survey (QNHS), the official source for labour market data in Ireland. As it is known that the QNHS undercounts … immigrants in Ireland, a concern exists over whether the profile of immigrants being provided is accurate. For example, QNHS …
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