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Migrating Workers and Jobs: A Challenge to the European Social Model?
Commander, Simon; Heitmueller, Axel; Tyson, Laura - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 …
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Domestic R&D Employment Effects of Offshoring R&D Tasks: Some Empirical Evidence from Finland
Ali-Yrkkö, Jyrki; Deschryvere, Matthias - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 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 …
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Wage-Shifting Effects of Severance Payments Savings Accounts in Colombia
Kugler, Adriana - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2004
In 1990 Colombia replaced its traditional system of severance payments with a new system of severance payments savings accounts (SPSAs). Although severance payments are often justified on the grounds that they provide insurance against earnings loss, they also increase costs for employers and...
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Wages and Informality in Developing Countries
Meghir, Costas; Narita, Renata; Robin, Jean-Marc - Departamento de Economia, Faculdade de Economia, … - 2013
It is often argued that informal labour markets in developing countries are the engine of growth because their existence allows firms to operate in an environment where wage and regulatory costs are lower. On the other hand informality means that the amount of social protection offered to...
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Employment Verification Mandates and the Labor Market Outcomes of Likely Unauthorized and Native Workers
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Bansak, Cynthia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
As recent efforts to reform immigration policy at the federal level have failed, states have started to take immigration matters into their own hands and researchers have been paying closer attention to state dynamics surrounding immigration policy. Yet, to this date, there is not a clear...
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The Minimum Wage from a Two-Sided Perspective
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms' job offer and workers' job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that...
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Mismatch, Sorting and Wage Dynamics
Lise, Jeremy; Meghir, Costas; Robin, Jean-Marc - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 2013
We develop an empirical search-matching model which is suitable for analyzing the wage, employment and welfare impact of regulation in a labor market with heterogeneous workers and jobs. To achieve this we develop an equilibrium model of wage determination and employment which extends the...
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The Wages of Women in England, 1260-1850
Humphries, Jane; Weisdorf, Jacob - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014
This paper presents a wage series for unskilled English women workers from 1260 to 1850 and compares it with existing evidence for men.  Our series cast light on long run trends in women's agency and wellbeing, revealing an intractable, indeed widening gap between women and men's remuneration...
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Knowledge Transfers from Multinational to Domestic Firms: Evidence from Worker Mobility
Poole, Jennifer P. - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 95 (2013) 2, pp. 393-406
Labor turnover is a commonly cited mechanism for the transmission of technology from multinational to domestic firms. Using a matched establishment-worker database from Brazil, I present evidence consistent with positive multinational wage spillovers through worker mobility. When workers leave...
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The minimum wage from a two-sided perspective
Brown, Alessio J.G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - In: Economics Letters 124 (2014) 3, pp. 389-391
This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms’ job offer and workers’ job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010930730