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The Impact of Firing Costs on Turnover and Unemployment : Evidence from the Colombian Labour Market Reform
Kugler, Adriana D. - 2000
Reductions in firing costs are often advocated as a way of increasing the dynamism of labour markets in both developed and less developed countries. Evidence from Europe and the U.S. on the impact of firing costs has, however, been mixed. Moreover, legislative changes both in Europe and the U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014191838
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The Impact of Firing Costs on Turnover and Unemployment : Evidence from the Colombian Labour Market Reform
Kugler, Adriana D. - 2000
Reductions in firing costs are often advocated as a way of increasing the dynamism of labour markets in both developed and less developed countries. Evidence from Europe and the U.S. on the impact of firing costs has, however, been mixed. Moreover, legislative changes both in Europe and the U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014161374
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Immigration and heterogeneous labor in Western Germany : a labor market classification based on nonparametric estimation
Frölich, Markus; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2002
This paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labor markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make suggestions for immigration policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447106
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Immigration and heterogeneous labor in Western Germany : a labor market classification based on nonparametric estimation
Frölich, Markus; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001638348
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Offshoring and labour market reforms : modelling the German experience
Beissinger, Thomas; Chusseau, Nathalie; Hellier, Joël - 2015
explanation is at odds with the sequence of observed facts. We propose and model an alternative scenario in which offshoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498540
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Offshoring potential and employment dynamics
Boockmann, Bernhard - 2014
This study addresses the impact of offshorability (a job characteristic indicating how easily a job can be offshored) on employment changes and worker mobility in Germany. A composite measure of offshorability for German data is used which broadens existing measurements such as Blinder (2009)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010419779
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Die Zukunft der Arbeit - Verdoppelung, Entkoppelung, regionale Divergenz?
Berthold, Norbert; Neumann, Michael; Zenzen, Jupp - In: Arbeitsmarkt und Beschäftigung, (pp. 9-34). 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003601112
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Offshoring and labour market reforms : modelling the German experience
Beissinger, Thomas; Chusseau, Nathalie; Hellier, Joël - 2015
explanation is at odds with the sequence of observed facts. We propose and model an alternative scenario in which offshoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010502768
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Globalization, jobs, and welfare : the roles of social protection and redistribution
Ranjan, Priya - 2015 - Current Draft: December, 2014
This paper studies the welfare and policy implications of globalization when risk averse workers face the risk of … welfare of workers but could reduce social welfare as well. Both unemployment benefits and severance payments can protect … workers against labor income risk, but the latter enhances welfare more if job destruction is the source of unemployment. When …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010477152
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Offshoring of medium-skill jobs, polarization, and productivity effect : implications for wages and low-skill unemployment
Vallizadeh, Ehsan; Muysken, Joan; Ziesemer, Thomas - 2015
We examine the effects of endogenous offshoring on cost-efficiency, wages and unemployment in a task-assignment model … with skill heterogeneity. Exact conditions for the following insights are derived. The distributional effect of offshoring … (high-) low-skill-intensive tasks is similar to (unskilled-) skill-biased technology changes, while offshoring medium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010477956