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Labour market adjustments in Europe and the US: How different?

Beyer, Robert C. M.; Smets, Frank - 2015

We compare the labour market response to region-specific shocks in Europe and the US and to national shocks in Europe and investigate changes over time. We employ a multi-level factor model to decompose regional labour market variables and then estimate the dynamic response of the employment...

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Temporary work visas as US-Haiti development cooperation: a preliminary impact evaluation

Clemens, Michael A.; Postel, Hannah - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 6 (2017) 4, pp. 1-18

agricultural workers. This work occurs in the USA in the context of a pilot program designed as a form of post-disaster development … assistance to Haiti. We find that the effects of matching new seasonal agricultural jobs in the USA with Haitian workers differs … roughly equally between Haiti and the USA; these benefits are very large, including raising the value of Haitian workers …

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Choice of pension scheme and job mobility in Britain

Disney, Richard; Emmerson, Carl - 2002

This paper examines the choice of pension scheme and job mobility in Britain. Workers in Britain can choose to belong wholly to the social security (public pension) programme, or to a company-provided plan (occupational pension), or to purchase their own individual pension. We use household...

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Labour mobility - an adjustment mechanism in Euroland? Empirical evidence for Western Germany, France and Italy

Puhani, Patrick A. - 1999

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate whether labour mobility is likely to act as a sufficient adjustment mechanism in the face of asymmetric shocks in Euroland. To this end, we estimate the elasticity of migration with respect to changes in unemployment and income on the basis of regional...

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Taxation and unemployment: an applied general equilibrium approach for Germany

Boeters, Stefan; Böhringer, Christoph; Feil, Michael - 2002

This paper presents an applied general equilibrium model for Germany. The model integrates specific labour market institutions in an otherwise standard general equilibrium framework. There are sectoral wage negotiations for two skill types of workers between firms and trade unions. The...

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Tax Progressivity and the Trade Union's Fallback-Option

Boeters, Stefan - 2002

When we analyse the labour market consequences of labour tax reforms in a model of firm-union wage bargaining, minor changes in the formulation of the union`s fallback option can have drastic effects. This paper compares two variants of the model in which either workers have no reemployment...

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Why Are East Germans Not More Mobile? Analyzing the Impact of Local Networks on Migration Intentions

Boenisch, Peter; Schneider, Lutz - 2010

Despite poor regional labour market conditions East Germans exhibit a rather limited willing-ness of leaving their home region. Applying an IV ordered probit approach and using the German Socio Economic Panel (SOEP), we test a local network explanation of lower spatial mobility. Firstly, we find...

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Globalisation and trade: A "New Economic Geography" perspective

Surico, Paolo - 2001

This paper presents a survey of the so-called 'New Economic Geography' (NEG) approach to International Trade, giving particular emphasis to the impact of labour mobility on the spatial distribution of economic activities across integrated countries. The liberalisation of international trade...

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Innovator Mobility in Finland and Denmark

Bagger, Jesper; Maliranta, Mika; Määttänen, Niku; … - 2016

Workers have different abilities in research, development and innovation (R&D&I) activities. Firms have different “prospects for innovation”. Innovation is facilitated by matching innovators, i.e. workers that are specialized in R&D&I to firms with good prospects for innovation. Aggregate...

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Earnings and Employment in Foreign-owned Firms

Mare, David C; Sanderson, Lynda; Fabling, Richard - 2014

This paper examines remuneration and labour mobility patterns among workers in foreign-owned firms operating in New Zealand. By tracking workers as they move across jobs in different types of firms, we document the extent of the "foreign wage premium" distinguishing between compositional factors...

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