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Outsourcing of services, imported materials and the demand for heterogeneous labour : an application of a generalised Box-Cox function
Falk, Martin; Koebel, Bertrand M. - 2000
This paper examines the effects that purchased services and imported intermediate materials have on the labour demand for different skills in the manufacturing sector. We derive and estimate a factor demand system based on the generalised Box-Cox cost function nesting both the normalised...
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Broadband internet availability and establishments' employment growth in Germany : evidence from instrumental variables estimations
Stockinger, Bastian - In: Journal for labour market research 53 (2019) 7, pp. 1-23
This study investigates the effect of broadband internet availability on German establishments’ employment growth. The database used is a random sample of business establishments, augmented by the local availability of broadband. The observation period is 2005–2010, when broadband was...
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Regional labor demand and national labor market institutions in the EU15
Herwartz, Helmut; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2011
The labor market effects of the recent financial and economic crisis are rather heterogeneous across countries and … regions. Such differences in labor market performance among industrialized countries are an issue of ongoing research. The … objective of this paper is to analyse labor market disparities among European regions and to provide evidence on the factors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009311598
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Wage differentials and mobility in the urban labor market : a panel data analysis for Mexico
Gong, Xiaodong (contributor); Soest, Arthur van (contributor) - 2001
separate wage equations for the two sectors and a multinomial logit part explaining the labor market state, in which wages are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009520496
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Local Labour Market Heterogeneity in Italy : Estimates and Simulations Using Responses to Labour Demand Shocks
Ciani, Emanuele - 2017
Using different data sources from local labour markets (LLMs) in Italy between 1971 and 2011, we document a number of stylized facts: a) local differences in the ratios of private employment to population are highly persistent; b) the population has a limited reaction to labour demand shocks,...
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China Syndrome Redux : New Results on Global Job Reallocation
Ouyang, Difei - 2020
uncertainty. Rising exports do not contribute to any growth of industrial wage or labor productivity on average, but instead … channel agricultural, unemployed, and non-participating workers into the industrial labor market and cause rural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012850219
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Wage Differentials and Mobility in the Urban Labor Market : A Panel Data Analysis for Mexico
Gong, Xiaodong; van Soest, Arthur - 2021
separate wage equations for the two sectors and a multinomial logit part explaining the labor market state, in which wages are …, nonparticipation is the most common labor market state, and true state dependence plays a much larger role …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320896
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Heterogeneous Determinants of Local Unemployment in Poland
Ciżkowicz, Piotr - 2015
We identify determinants of large disparities in local unemployment rates in Poland using panel data on NUTS-4 level (poviats) We find that the disparities are linked to local demographics, education and sectoral employment composition rather than to local demand factors However, the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013017352
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Wage growth, urbanization, and firm characteristics : evidence for Germany
Kelle, Markus - 2016
I use German administrative data for 2001-2010 to analyse the impact of urbanization and firm characteristics on wage growth of workers. I find a statistically highly significant higher within-job wage growth rate for workers in counties with a higher population density. This provides evidence...
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The effect of migration on income convergence : meta-analytic evidence
Ozgen, Ceren; Poot, Jacques; Nijkamp, Peter - 2009
Using meta-analytical techniques, we focus on 11 studies that explicitly measure the effect of a net migration variable in neoclassical convergence models and derive 57 comparable effect sizes. The data suggest that an increase in the net migration rate of one percentage point increases on...
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