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how wages adjust to unfavorable product demand shocks that raise the risk of displacement through firm closing, and to … Portugal, the estimation results suggest that, under the existence of noncompetitive rents, the fear of job loss leads workers … to adverse shocks due to their inability to adjust wages downward. Indeed, minimum wage restrictions were seen to …
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Tarifverhandlungssysteme dargestellt und erörtert sowie die Verbindung zwischen Lohn- und Produktivitätsentwicklungen (in Bezug auf nominale …
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The issue of wages has attracted particular attention at European level since the onset of the economic crisis. Changes … different systems and levels of minimum wages in Europe at present, carrying out an accounting exercise through a hypothetical …
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National wage-bargaining institutions are crucial in achieving pay outcomes that help to increase employment and economic growth within the context of avoiding macroeconomic imbalances within the European Monetary Union. Using a large set of empirical macroeconomic data from a variety of...
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This paper investigates the relationship between bilateral FDI positions and cross-country business cycle correlations in the period 1982–2001. We find that countries that have comparatively intensive FDI relations also have more synchronized business cycles during 1995–2001. Before 1995, we...
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average human capital stock in a region on individual wages, considering regional human capital as a local public good. Indeed … statistically significant coefficient in an augmented Mincer specification. However, the impact on individual wages completely …
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effects of tenure and especially of experience on wages decreased over time. We adopt the Machado-Mata (2005) counterfactual … dispersion of wages. …
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This paper analyses the relationship between openness to trade and wages at the industry level (15 manufacturing … importance of foreign wages versus domestic productivity developments in an open environment. We find that trade is not an … important driver of wages, since the wage response to trade is small. Moreover, in line with the Stolper-Samuelson reasoning …
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Using the Albrecht et al. (2003) version of the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition technique along the wage distribution, we find that immigrant workers do not affect changes in the Czech wage structure between 2002 and 2006 despite their substantial inflows. Instead, changes in the wage...
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