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Environmental policy and industrial competitiveness: The pollution haven hypothesis reconsidered
Bommer, Rolf - 1995
The Pollution-Haven Hypothesis suggests that tight environmental standards reduce domestic producers' competitiveness and give rise to their relocating to countries with more lenient standards. This paper questions that relocation is always caused by reduced competitiveness at home. By using a...
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International trade, technological shocks and spillovers in the labour market: A GVAR analysis of the US manufacturing sector
Hiebert, Paul; Vansteenkiste, Isabel - 2007
We empirically analyse the response of US manufacturing labour market variables to various shocks, notably to trade openness and technology. The econometric approach involves an application of the recently developed global VAR (GVAR) methodology of D¶ees, DiMauro, Pesaran, and Smith (2005) to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604777
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Desempleo, desajuste en el mercado laboral („mismatch“) e inflación: un modelo integrativo
Sell, Friedrich L. - 2010
Primero enseñaremos que la (nueva) curva de Phillips diseñada por la escuela del «Nuevo Keynesianismo» se puede transformar fácilmente en una curva de Phillips «clásica». Teniendo en cuenta el «mismatch» en los mercados laborales, como lo describe la curva de Beveridge y combinando...
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Bürgerversicherung: Die Wirkung von Kopfprämien auf den Arbeitsmarkt
Farhauer, Oliver; Borchardt, Katja; Stargardt, Tom - 2004
Arbeitsmarkt aufzeigen. Des weiteren werden mögliche Konzepte für die Behandlung der bisher mitversicherten Kinder, sowie eine … citizens. It analyses the impact of a change in financing health care on the labour market. Therefore microeconomic theory and …
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In the shadow of the labour market
Ognedal, Tone - 2012
Why do not people evade more taxes when their gain from evasion is higher than the expected penalties? Why does only a small minority evade when a large majority is willing to? These tax evasion puzzles are explained in a labour market framework where employees may combine reported work in firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330237
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Adaptive Economizing, Technological Change, and the Demand for Labor in Disequilibrium
Day, Richard H.; Hanson, Kenneth A. - 1985
An adaptive economizing framework is proposed for analyzing labor market aspects of long-term industrial development using a dynamic, disaggregate economic model based upon principles of bounded rationality and markets in disequilibrium. The approach is applied to a firm's investment-production...
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Inflation dynamics with labour market matching: assessing alternative specifications
Christoffel, Kai; Costain, James; de Walque, Gregory; … - 2009
This paper reviews recent approaches to modeling the labour market and assesses their implications for inflation dynamics through both their effect on marginal cost and on price-setting behaviour. In a search and matching environment, we consider the following modeling setups: right-to-manage...
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A Theory of Social Forces and Immigrant Second Language Acquisition
DeVoretz, Don J.; Werner, Christiane - 2000
The preponderance of minimal second language acquisition by immigrants worldwide is striking. This paper proposes a theoretical model, which analyzes the underlying forces that contribute to this outcome of minimal secondary language acquisition by immigrants in such diverse immigrant-receiving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272933
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Anmerkungen zum Monopson am Arbeitsmarkt: Der Zeithorizont macht den Unterschied
Sell, Friedrich L.; Reinisch, David C. - 2012
Ob die Marktform des Monopsons am Arbeitsmarkt vorliegt, ist fur die Frage des Für oder Wider des Mindestlohns von … Strukturen am Arbeitsmarkt nachgewiesen werden, die Einführung eines Mindestlohns nicht nur zu einer exogenen Lohnerhöhung für … gilt fur den Unternehmer mit Marktmacht am Arbeitsmarkt genau dasselbe, was auch fur alle anderen Unternehmer ohne …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010310937
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Migration Dynamics
Vergalli, Sergio; Moretto, Michele - 2005
This paper tries to explain why most migration flows show some observable jumps in their processes, a phenomenon that seems to be sympathetic with the characteristic of irreversibility of migration. We present a real option model where the choice to migrate depends on both the differential wage...
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