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Individual vs. Collective Bargaining in the Large Firm Search Model

Bauer, Christian; Lingens, Jörg - 2010

We analyze the welfare and employment effects of different wage bargaining regimes. Within the large firm search model, we show that collective bargaining affects employment via two channels. Collective bargaining exerts opposing effects on job creation and wage setting. Firms have a stronger...

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What is global excess liquidity, and does it matter?

Rüffer, Rasmus; Stracca, Livio - 2006

This paper endeavours to provide a comprehensive analysis of the nature and the possible importance of “global excess liquidity”, a concept which has attracted considerable attention in recent years. The contribution of this paper is threefold. First, we present some conceptual discussion on...

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Welfare Policies, Labour Taxation and International Integration

Andersen, Torben M. - 2001

How will international integration affect welfare policies? This paper considers the possibilities of financing public sector activities (public consumption and social security expenses) by general (wage) taxation in an economy which becomes more integrated in international product markets. Even...

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Openness, financial markets, and policies: Cross-country and dynamic patterns

Bertola, Giuseppe; Lo Prete, Anna - 2008

globalization trends where financial market development can more easily substitute for it. …

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Globalization and Human Capital Formation

Andersson, Fredrik; Konrad, Kai A. - 2001

This paper compares education investment in closed and open economies without government and with a benevolent government. The fact that the time consistency problem in taxation can make labor mobility beneficial even if governments are fully benevolent – which is known from other contexts –...

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Exports, unemployment and the welfare state

Janeba, Eckhard - 2007

The paper analyzes the labor market effects of globalization when foreign market entry is costly and risky. With … cannot easily switch industries and wages are inflexible in the short run, globalization tends to increase unemployment. In … popular views about the globalization effects in the U.S. and continental Europe. The results also suggest that the welfare …

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Causes and consequences of merger waves

Kleinert, Jörn; Klodt, Henning - 2002

that sectoral shocks are at the root of merger waves. Deregulation and globalization are identified as the shocks …

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Kuka pelkää globalisaatiota? Suomalaisten pelot ja toiveet sekä toteutuneet vaikutukset

Kotiranta, Annu - 2008

According to EVA's annual attitude and value survey, two out of three Finns believe that globalization means loosing … indicates that the employment effects of globalization are rather modest, who is afraid of globalization and why? In this … analysis it is found that highly educated, service sector, and male employees are the least afraid of globalization …

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Globalization and Employment: The Impact of Trade on Employment Level and Structure in the Philippines

Orbeta, Aniceto C. - 2002

This paper presents one of the few empirical estimates of the impact of globalization, here represented by trade flows …

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Skill-biased labor market reforms and international competitiveness

Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 6 (2012) 2012-37, pp. 1-39

This paper proposes a multi-industry trade model with integrated capital and goods markets. Labor market imperfections in line with Mortensen and Pissarides (Job Creation and Job Destruction in the Theory of Unemployment, 1994) give rise to unemployment and a channel for the government to...

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