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Offshoring, Wages, and Employment : Theory and Evidence
Sethupathy, Prasanna Guru - 2009
into offshoring. Given a shock that lowers offshoring costs, the theory predicts that domestic wages rise at firms that … offshore relative to domestic wages at firms that do not. The theory also predicts that domestic employment could rise or fall …Offshoring of US jobs is controversial. Critics fear that offshoring will lead to lost jobs and lower domestic wages at …
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Drivers and effects of labour market reforms : evidence from a novel policy compendium
Adascalitei, Dragos; Morano, Clemente Pignatti - In: IZA journal of labor policy 5 (2016) 15, pp. 1-32
The paper analyses the determinants and short-term effects of labour market reforms, using information from a novel policy compendium that covers 110 developed and developing economies between 2008 and 2014. We find that the approval of reforms is positively associated with the unemployment...
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The China shock, employment protection, and European jobs
Aghelmaleki, Hedieh; Bachmann, Ronald; Stiebale, Joel - 2019
We investigate the effects of Chinese import competition on transitions into and out of employment using comparable worker-level data for 14 European countries. Our results indicate that, on average, Chinese imports are associated with an increased probability that employed workers become...
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Employment protection and labour market performance in European Union countries during the Great Recession
Ferreiro Aparicio, Jesús; Gómez, Carmen - 2018
For mainstream economics, rigidities in the labour market are the primary determinants of high and persistent long-term unemployment rates, leading to the need to reform labour market institutions and make them more flexible. Flexible labour markets would not only help to smooth normal business...
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Did the pattern of aggregate employment growth change in the euro area in the late 1990s?
Mourre, Gilles (contributor) - 2004
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Employment protection reforms, employment and the incidence of temporary jobs in Europe : 1996 – 2001
Kahn, Lawrence M. - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 17 (2010) 1, pp. 1-15
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Does employment protection help immigrants? : evidence from European labor markets
Sá, Filipa - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 18 (2011) 5, pp. 624-642
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Did the pattern of aggregate employment growth change in the euro area in the late 1990s?
Mourre, Gilles - In: Applied economics 38 (2006) 15, pp. 1783-1807
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Employment protection reforms, employment and the incidence of temporary jobs in Europe: 1995 - 2001
Kahn, Lawrence M. (contributor) - 2007
Using European Community Household Panel data for nine countries for 1996-2001, I investigate the impact of reforms of employment protection systems on employment and on temporary jobs for wage and salary workers. Individual fixed effects models are estimated, with the inclusion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652681
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Does employment protection help immigrants? : evidence from European labor markets
Sa, Filipa (contributor) - 2008
High levels of employment protection reduce hiring and firing and have a theoretically ambiguous effect on the employment level. Immigrants, being new to the labor market, may be less aware of employment protection regulations and less likely to claim their rights, which may create a gap between...
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