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Monopsony power, offshoring, and a European minimum wage
Egger, Hartmut; Kreickemeier, Udo; Wrona, Jens - 2024
This paper sets up a two-country model of offshoring with monopolistically competitive product and monopsonistically competitive labour markets. In our model, an incentive for offshoring exists even between symmetric countries, because shifting part of the production abroad reduces local labour...
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Monopsony and Labor Markets in Merger Review : Global Antitrust Institute Comment of the DOJ-FTC Request for Information on Merger Enforcement
Kobayashi, Bruce H.; Lipsky, Abbott B.; Raskovich, Alexander - 2022
”) This comment addresses the questions contained in Section 9 of the RFI related to Monopsony Power and Labor Markets. Our … view is that protecting workers, input suppliers, and consumers from the effects of monopsony should be an important goal … of antitrust. The effects of classical monopsony result in harm to workers, other input suppliers, and consumers by …
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A European Minimum Wage : Implications for Poverty and Macroeconomic Imbalances
Detragiache, Enrica - 2020
A hypothetical European Minimum Wage (MW) set at 60 percent of each country's median wage would reduce in-work poverty but have limited effects on overall poverty, as many poor households do not earn a wage near MW and higher unemployment, higher prices, and a loss of social insurance benefits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831607
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Demographic pressure in the European Union
Peeters, Marga; Groot, Lucas Franciscus Michaël - 2012
On top of the sovereign debt crisis in the European Union, demographic change is exerting enormous pressure on public finances. We analyse four policy options: lowering pension benefits, increasing labour market participation of the native population, immigration and participation of older...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011526636
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Demographic Pressure in the European Union Increasing Labor Market Participation, Migration or Old Age Participation to Maintain Fiscal Sustainability
Peeters, Marga - 2012
On top of the sovereign debt crisis in the European Union, demographic change is exerting enormous pressure on public finances. We analyze four policy options: lowering pension benefits, increasing labor market participation of the native population, immigration and participation of older...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105261
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Competition and State Aid Implications of ‘Public’ Minimum Wage Clauses in EU Public Procurement after the RegioPost Judgment
Sanchez-Graells, Albert - 2017
This chapter assesses the use of public procurement to enforce labour standards from a competition and State aid perspective, and concentrates on the establishment of contract compliance clauses under the rules of Article 26 of Directive 2004/18/EC and Article 70 of Directive 2014/24/EU and in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957814
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Public wage and pension indexation in the euro area : an overview
Checherita-Westphal, Cristina (ed.) - 2022
If the responses of wages - both private and public - and of pensions to an increase in inflation lead to second-round effects, this can make an inflationary shock more persistent, especially in the presence of automatic wage and pension indexation. This occasional paper presents an overview of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334627
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Labor market reforms in Europe : towards more flexicure labor markets?
Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul; Wehner, Caroline - 2016
Labor market segmentation refers to a salient divide between secure and insecure jobs and is related to problems in important areas, including macro‐economic efficiency, workers' wellbeing and repercussions for social cohesion. European countries have started a new wave of labor market reforms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455858
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An impact assessment of ESF training courses for unemployed in the province of Bolzano
Pastore, Francesco; Pompili, Marco - 2022
This paper evaluates the impact on employment probabilities of two training programs funded by the European Social Fund in the province of Bolzano, Italy. The programs were addressed to particularly vulnerable groups which were much less skilled and educated than the control group from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012873090
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An impact assessment of ESF training courses for unemployed in the province of Bolzano
Pastore, Francesco; Pompili, Marco - 2022
This paper evaluates the impact on employment probabilities of two training programs funded by the European Social Fund in the province of Bolzano, Italy. The programs were addressed to particularly vulnerable groups which were much less skilled and educated than the control group from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012814372