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Robots or workers? : a macro analysis of automation and labor markets
Leduc, Sylvain; Liu, Zheng - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059788
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Flexible labour, firm performance and the Dutch job creation miracle
Kleinknecht, Alfred Herrmann; Oostendorp, Remco M.; … - In: International review of applied economics 20 (2006) 2, pp. 171-187
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003328764
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Working-week flexibility : implications for employment and productivity
Osune, Victoria - 2014
This paper evaluates the effects for the Spanish case of allowing greater flexibility regarding the weekly hours worked on the working week, employment and productivity. A baseline model economy is calibrated to reproduce the cross-sectional distribution of workweeks across plants, as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010241369
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Interacting product and labor market regulation and the impact of immigration on native wages
Prantl, Susanne; Spitz-Oener, Alexandra - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010349011
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Training, job security and incentive wages
Katsimē, Margarita - 2003
. This implies that firm-specific training can decrease current wages as it implies a credible commitment to lower future …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507950
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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 … downward pressure on all wages through domestic skill-task reallocation. If elasticities of task substitution are low (high …), the downward pressure on wages in neighboring skill segments is low (high) with a net effect of higher (lower) wages and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010477956
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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 taskassignment model … downward pressure on all wages through domestic skill-task reallocation. If elasticities of task substitution are low (high …), the downward pressure on wages in neighboring skill segments is low (high) with a net effect of higher (lower) wages and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010480329
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The causal effects of exports on firm size and labor productivity : first evidence from a matching approach
Wagner, Joachim - In: Economics letters 77 (2002) 2, pp. 287-292
starting to export on plant performance. We find positive effects on growth of employment, labor productivity, and wages. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001705620
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The causal effects of exports on firm size and labor productivity : first evidence from a matching approach
Wagner, Joachim - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001647482
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Works councils in Germany : their effects on establishment performance
Addison, John T.; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - In: Oxford economic papers 53 (2001) 4, pp. 659-694
Works councils are the most important pillar of workplace industrial relations in Germany but little is known of their economic effects. The paper uses a modern, large-scale dataset to examine this issue. Consonant with recent applied theoretical conjectures, it is found that works councils are...
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