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House Prices and Employment Reallocation : International Evidence

Bover, Olympia - 2007

change. In this paper we estimate a model of labor demand in the construction sector, featuring building constraints, which … display larger elasticities of labor demand in the construction sector with respect to house prices than countries that seem … the whole economy, the elasticity of labor demand with respect to house prices is broadly similar across countries …

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Lost in transition? : minimum wage effects on German construction workers

Bachmann, Ronald; König, Marion; Schaffner, Sandra - 2012

Using a linked employer-employee data set on the German construction industry, we analyse the effects of the introduction of minimum wages in this sector on labour market dynamics. In doing so, we focus on accessions and separations, as well as the underlying labour market flows, at the...

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The future of work : Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia faced with the challenges of a globalised world

Bendyk, Edwin (contributor); Lisowska, Ewa (contributor) - 2006

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Offshoring and labour market inequalities

Schwörer, Tillmann - 2013

This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on labour market inequalities between skill groups based on German industry level data from 1995 to 2007. Our main findings are the following: First, offshoring is on average biased in favour of high-skilled employees and in disfavour of low-skilled...

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Watts happening to work? : the labour market effects of South Africa's electricity crisis

Bhorat, Haroon; Köhler, Timothy - 2024

Frequent electricity outages threaten to impede the benefits of expanded access achieved by many developing countries in recent decades. A large literature documents these negative effects, however almost none consider labour market effects. This paper merges labour force survey microdata with...

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The economic effects of employment protection : evidence from International Industry-Level Data

Micco, Alejandro (contributor); Pagés, Carmen (contributor) - 2007

This paper examines the economic effects of employment protection legislation in a sample of developed and developing countries. Implementing a difference-indifferences test lessens the potentially severe endogeneity and omitted variable problems associated with cross-country regressions. This...

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The dynamics of job creation and job destruction : is sub-saharan Africa different?

Shiferaw, Admasu; Bedi, Arjun Singh - 2009

adjust their labor force in a manner broadly similar to firms elsewhere and that African labor markets are not uniquely …

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Do in-plant alliances foster employment? : an instrument for responding to an imminent economic crisis or for increasing firm competitiveness

Bellmann, Lutz - 2014

intended to hold down labor costs. These agreements enable reorganizations to respond to an imminent economic crisis or to …

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On the robustness of minimum wage effects : geographically-disparate trends and job growth equations

Addison, John T.; Blackburn, McKinley L.; Cotti, Chad - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-16

Recent attempts to incorporate spatial heterogeneity in minimum-wage employment models have been targeted for using overly simplistic trend controls and for neglecting the potential impact of wage minima on employment growth. This paper investigates whether such considerations call into question...

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The role of short-time work schemes during the global financial crisis and early recovery : a cross-country analysis

Hijzen, Alexander; Martin, Sébastien - In: IZA journal of labor policy 2 (2013), pp. 1-31

There has been a strong interest in short-time work (STW) schemes during the global financial crisis. Using data for 23 OECD countries for the period 2004 Q1 to 2010 Q4, this paper analyses the quantitative effects of STW programmes on labour market outcomes. Special attention is given to the...

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