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Domestic R&D employment effects of offshoring R&D tasks: Some empirical evidence from Finland
Ali-Yrkkö, Jyrki; Deschryvere, Matthias - 2008
This study empirically explores whether R&D offshoring affects the domestic R&D employment at the firm level. Overall … of internationalization (in-house offshoring vs. offshore outsourcing vs. in-house expansion of R&D abroad). Moreover … effects. In the manufacturing sector, especially in-house offshoring of R&D has a significant negative impact on the plan to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273043
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Migrating workers and jobs: a challenge to the European social model?
Commander, Simon; Heitmüller, Axel; Tyson, Laura - 2006
immigration of individuals. The second is that the emigration of jobs from Europe to other regions of the world through offshoring … from immigration and offshoring on a firmer empirical foundation; and second, to explore changes in the European social … increased global competition from emerging market economies. Both immigration and offshoring confront European policy makers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274236
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Aggregate Real Wages: Macro Fluctuations and Micro Drivers
Daly, Mary C.; Hobijn, Bart; Wiles, Theodore S. - 2011
Using data from the Current Population Survey from 1980 through 2010 we examine what drives variation andcyclicality in the growth rate of real wages over time. We employ a novel decomposition technique that allowsus to divide the time series for median weekly earnings growth into the part...
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Raising Job Quality and Worker Skills in the US: Creating More Effective Education and Workforce Development Systems in States
Holzer, Harry J. - 2012
To improve the employment rates and earnings of Americans workers, we need to create more coherent and effective education and workforce development systems, focusing primarily (though not exclusively) on disadvantaged youth and adults, and with education and training more clearly targeted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331396
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Price and quantity adjustments in the Austrian labour market
Hofer, Helmut; Pichelmann, Karl; Schuh, Andreas-Ulrich - 1998
Austria is among the very few countries in the European Union which have managed to maintain comparatively low unemployment rates and high employment rates. In international comparison Austrian unemployment is very stable over the business cycle. This is mainly due to the high sensitivity of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291921
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Great Expectations: Past Wages and Unemployment Durations
Böheim, René; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2010
Decomposing wages into worker and firm wage components, we find that firm-fixed components (firm rents) are sizeable parts of workers' wages. If workers can only imperfectly observe the extent of firm rents in their wages, they might be mislead about the overall wage distribution. Such...
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Still searching for the wage curve: evidence from Germany and Italy
Ammermüller, Andreas; Lucifora, Claudio; Origo, Federica; … - 2007
This paper investigates the functioning of regional labour markets in Italy and Germany for different employee groups. In the light of high and persistent differences in unemployment and wage rates between the North and South of Italy and the West and East of Germany, we first derive theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297874
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Employed and unemployed search: The marginal willingness to pay for attributes in Lithuania, the US and the Netherlands
van Ommeren, Jos; Hazans, Mihails - 2003
This paper introduces a method for estimating workers' marginal willingness to pay for job attributes employing data on job search activity. Worker's willingness to pay to avoid a temporary contract, which increases the risk of becoming unemployed, is derived for Lithuania. The empirical...
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The implications of wage structure rigidity on human capital accumulation, economic growth and unemployment: A Schumpeterian approach to endogenous growth theory
Nusser, Michael - 1999
The approach put forward in this article is based on Schumpeter`s idea of creative destruction, the competitive process by which entrepreneurs are always looking for new ideas that will render their rivals` ideas obsolete. I present a model in which the rate of economic growth is sensitive to...
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To Shape the Future: How Labor Market Entry Conditions Affect Individuals’s Long-Run Wage Profiles
Brunner, Beartice; Kuhn, Andreas - 2009
We study the long-run effects of initial labor market conditions on wages for a large sample of male individuals entering the Austrian labor market between 1978 and 2000. We find a robust negative effect of unfavorable entry conditions on starting wages. This initial effect turns out to be quite...
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