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cannot easily switch industries and wages are inflexible in the short run, globalization tends to increase unemployment. In …The paper analyzes the labor market effects of globalization when foreign market entry is costly and risky. With … this situation, government unemployment benefits reduce the wages that exporting firm's need to pay workers as risk …
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While the impact of globalization on income inequality has received a lot of attention, little is known about its … firms and non-exporters. By the virtue of being exposed to higher competition, exporters require greater commitment and … men, exporters will statistically discriminate against female employees and will exhibit a higher GWG than non-exporters …
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pronounced. The adverse effect of higher unemployment on life satisfaction is partially offset by the positive impact of lower …
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inequality or the Charybdis of unemployment. Furthermore, it looks like the continental European economies - foremost Germany and … France - sided with more egalitarian ends accepting higher unemployment whilst the liberal economies such as the United … States and the United Kingdom choose higher inequality for lower unemployment. In this paper it is argued, that the trade …
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business background (CEO governors), focusing on the growth rate of real personal income per capita, unemployment rate, and … annual income growth rate and a 0.6 percentage points lower unemployment rate than are the tenures of non-CEO governors. Also …
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Before the Great Recession, rising income inequality within the European Union member states has been considered to be one driver for an increasing Euroskepticism. Using rich data on attitudes towards European integration from the Eurobarometer (EB) surveys, we revisit the issue by analyzing the...
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business background (CEO governors), focusing on income growth, unemployment, private investment, and income inequality … private capital stock, and a 0.6 percentage points lower unemployment rate than are the tenures of non-CEO governors. Income …
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In this paper we investigate the recent fall in unemployment, and the rise in part-time work, labour market … participation, inequality and welfare in Germany. Unemployment fell because the Hartz IV reform induced a large fraction of the long …. Overall we find that Germany increased welfare as unemployment fell. …
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During the 2000–2016 period, Canada’s economy and labor market performed well. An important element in this success was the strong resource boom that lasted from the late 1990s to 2014. Since that time the economy and labor market have been undergoing a painful adjustment, a process that is...
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In this paper we investigate the recent fall in unemployment, and the rise in part-time work, labour market … participation, inequality and welfare in Germany. Unemployment fell because the Hartz IV reform induced a large fraction of the long …. Overall we find that Germany increased welfare as unemployment fell. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943096