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Foreign direct investment and international business cycle comovement

Jansen, W. Jos; Stokman, Ad C. J. - 2004

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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Human capital externalities and proximity evidence from repeated cross-sectional data

Canton, Erik - 2009

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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Changes in the Austrian structure of wages, 1996 - 2002

Pointner, Wolfgang; Stiglbauer, Alfred - 2010

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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is it really a threat to wages in the west?

Polgár, Éva Katalin; Wörz, Julia - 2010

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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Changes in the Czech wage structure

Dybczak, Kamil; Galuščák, Kamil - 2010

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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Wages, labor or prices

Dhyne, Emmanuel; Druant, Martine - 2010

importance of wage bargaining above the firm level, the automatic system of index-linking wages to past inflation, the limited …

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The incidence of nominal and real wage rigidity

Messina, Julián; Du Caju, Philip; Duarte, Cláudia Filipa - 2010

degree of decentralization within highly centralized countries allows firms to adjust wages downwards, when business …

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Changes in the wage structure in EU countries

Christopoulou, Rebekka; Jimeno, Juan F.; Lamo, Ana - 2010

. We relate wages and their various components with macroeconomic and institutional trends and find that technology and … globalisation are associated with wage increases; migration is associated with declines in wages; whereas the effect of labour …

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Inter-industry wage differentials in EU countries

Du Caju, Philip; Kátay, Gábor; Lamo, Ana; Nicolitsas, … - 2010

This paper documents the existence and main patterns of inter-industry wage differentials across a large number of industries for 8 EU countries (Belgium, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, and Spain) at two points in time (in general 1995 and 2002) and explores possible...

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Price, wage and employment response to shocks

Bertola, Giuseppe; Dabusinskas, Aurelijus; Hoeberichts, … - 2010

This paper analyses information from survey data collected in the framework of the Eurosystem’s Wage Dynamics Network (WDN) on patterns of firm-level adjustment to shocks. We document that the relative intensity and the character of price vs. cost and wage vs. employment adjustments in...

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