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Trade and Labor Reallocation with Heterogeneous Enforcement of Labor Regulations
Almeida, Rita K.; Poole, Jennifer P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
. We explore the fact that plants face varying degrees of exposure to global markets and to the enforcement of labor market … administrative data on employers matched to their employees and on the enforcement of labor regulations at the city level over Brazil … regulations, that after a trade shock, plants facing stricter enforcement of the labor law decrease job creation and increase job …
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FDI, skill-specific unemployment, and institutional spillover effects
Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
This paper proposes a multi-industry trade model with integrated capital markets and Mortensen and Pissarides search frictions in the labor market. Institutional changes in the model trigger adjustments at the intensive and extensive margin of labor demand. At the extensive margin a shift of the...
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Skill-biased labor market reforms and international competitiveness
Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - In: Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 6 (2012), pp. 1-39
This paper proposes a multi-industry trade model with integrated capital and goods markets. Labor market imperfections in line with Mortensen and Pissarides (Job Creation and Job Destruction in the Theory of Unemployment, 1994) give rise to unemployment and a channel for the government to...
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Family Ties
Alesina, Alberto; Giuliano, Paola - In: Handbook of Economic Growth
We study the role of the most primitive institution in society: the family. Its organization and relationship between generations shape values formation, economic outcomes, and influences national institutions. We use a measure of family ties, constructed from the World Values Survey, to review...
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Family Ties
Alesina, Alberto; Giuliano, Paola - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We study the role of the most primitive institution in society: the family. Its organization and relationship between generations shape values formation, economic outcomes and influences national institutions. We use a measure of family ties, constructed from the World Values Survey, to review...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010658711
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Family Ties
Alesina, Alberto F; Giuliano, Paola - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
We study the role of the most primitive institution in society: the family. Its organization and relationship between generations shape values formation, economic outcomes and influences national institutions. We use a measure of family ties, constructed from the World Values Survey, to review...
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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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Pragmatic identity and alterity in political discourse
Boicu, Ruxandra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The article analyzes a sample of political discourse, namely the speech entitled “We Want Our Country Back”, delivered by the British nationalist, MEP, Ashley Mote. In the communication situation, the audience is made up of conservative, right-wing politicians or supporters, mainly readers...
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Labour-market issues under trade liberalization: implications for Thai workers
Pholphirul, Piriya - In: Asia-Pacific Development Journal 14 (2007) 1, pp. 41-71
This paper analyses the impact of trade liberalization on the labour market in Thailand. The impacts on wages, employment, gender roles, labour standards and protection, human development and unionization are investigated. Such impacts vary among different sectors and in different aspects. The...
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Les formes particulières d'emploi en France : un état des lieux.
Kornig, Cathel; Michon, François - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2010
This paper is the French contribution for an international comparative survey directed by the Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training (Tokyo). It assesses available empirical data, analyses and debates. It obeys to the standard architecture of the international questionnaire :...
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