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Offshoring, Labour Market Institutions and the Elasticity of Labour Demand
Hijzen, Alexander - 2008
This paper analyses the evolution of the elasticity of labour demand and the role of offshoring therein using industry … intensive offshoring is associated with more elastic labour demand, consistent with increased offshoring having expanded the … than the counter-factual elasticity which would have prevailed had offshoring not been possible. Increases of this …
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Trade and informality in the presence of labor market frictions and regulations
Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Goldberg, Pinelopi K.; Meghir, Costas - 2021
We build an equilibrium model of a small open economy with labor market frictions and imperfectly enforced regulations. Heterogeneous firms sort into the formal or informal sector. We estimate the model using data from Brazil, and use counterfactual simulations to understand how trade affects...
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Trade, employment and labour standards : a study of core workers' rights and international trade
Deléchat, Corinne (contributor) - 1996
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Arbeitsmarkteffekte der EU-Osterweiterung : zur Wirkung von Integration, Migration und institutionellem Wandel auf dem Arbeitsmarkt
Hebler, Martin - 2002
Die bevorstehende Osterweiterung der Europäischen Union (EU) stellt für die beitretenden Staaten einen bedeutenden Schritt ihrer Wiedereingliederung in das ökonomische Netzwerk Europas dar. Ein wesentliches Kriterium bei der Beurteilung des Erfolgs der Osterweiterung ist die Auswirkung des...
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The employment potential of labor intensive industries on India's organized manufacturing
Das, Deb Kusum; Wadhwa, Deepika; Kalita, Gunajit - 2009
This paper attempts to identify and examine labor intensive industries in the organized manufacturing sector in India in order to understand their employment generation potential. Using the data from the Annual Survey of Industries (Government of India, various issues), the labor intensity for...
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Do labor intensive industries generate employment? : evidence from firm level survey in India
Das, Deb Kusum; Kalita, Gunajit - 2009
This study attempts to address the issue of declining labour intensity in India’s organized manufacturing in order to understand the constraints on employment generation in the labour intensive sectors. Using primary survey data covering 252 labour intensive manufacturing-exporting firms...
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Does Occupational Licensing Reduce Job Loss During Recessions?
Blair, Peter Q.; Chung, Bobby W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Licensed workers could be shielded from unemployment during recession since occupational licensing laws are asymmetric--making unlicensed workers an illegal substitute for licensed workers but not the reverse. We test our hypothesis using a difference-in-differences event study research design...
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Evaluation der Offshore-ArbZV
Duus, Rainer; Fertig, Michael; Hägele, Helmut; … - 2019
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Arbeitsrechtliche Instrumente in der Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise
Lindemann, Achim; Simon, Oliver - In: Betriebs-Berater : BB 63 (2008) 51/52, pp. 2795-2804
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