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Industry-level labour demand elasticities across the Eurozone : will there be any gain after the pain of internal devaluation?
Adam, Antonis; Moutos, Thomas - 2014
In this paper we estimate disaggregated labour demand equations using panel data involving observations across time (1970 - 2007) for twenty-three industries across eleven euro area countries. By using the EU KLEMS database, which provides data across countries, we provide industry-by-industry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010370168
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Outsourcing and the demand for low-skill labour in German manufacturing : new evidence
Geishecker, Ingo - 2002
This paper analyses how international outsourcing has affected the relative demand for low skilled workers in Germany … disentangle international outsourcing and trade in final goods more accurately. The main finding is that during the 1990s … international outsourcing had a significant negative impact on the relative demand for low-skilled workers, explaining between 19 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437014
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009311598
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The impact of institutions on the employment performance in European labour markets
Buscher, Herbert S.; Dreger, Christian; Ramos, Raúl; … - 2005
This paper investigates the role of institutions for labour market performance across European countries. As participation rates have been rather stable over the past, the unemployment problem is mainly caused by shortages in labour demand. Labour demand is expressed by its structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003085749
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Industry-Level Labour Demand Elasticities Across the Eurozone : Will There Be Any Gain after the Pain of Internal Devaluation?
Adam, Antonis - 2014
In this paper we estimate disaggregated labour demand equations using panel data involving observations across time (1970-2007) for twenty-three industries across eleven Euro area countries. By using the EU KLEMS database, which provides data across countries, we provide industry-by-industry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051276
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The Impact of Institutions on the Employment Performance in European Labour Markets
Buscher, Herbert S.; Dreger, Christian; Ramos, Raul; … - 2021
This paper investigates the role of institutions for labour market performance across European countries. As participation rates have been rather stable over the past, the unemployment problem is mainly caused by shortages in labour demand. Labour demand is expressed by its structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318303
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Uncertainty and firms' labour decisions : evidence from European countries
Martinez-Matute, Marta; Urtasun, Alberto - 2020
Uncertainty affects employers' decisions on labour workforce, as it does on capital. We exploit differences on how firms adjust their labour work-force when uncertainty increases. Using data from the Wage Dynamic Network Survey for 25 European countries, we first construct, opposite to usual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012284895
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Industry-Level Labour Demand Elasticities Across the Eurozone : Will There Be Any Gain after the Pain of Internal Devaluation?
Moutos, Thomas; Adam, Antonis - 2022
In this paper we estimate disaggregated labour demand equations using panel data involving observations across time (1970-2007) for twenty-three industries across eleven euro area countries. By using the EU KLEMS database, which provides data across countries, we provide industry-by-industry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014079019
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Asymmetric wage adjustment and employment in European firms
Marotzke, Petra; Anderton, Bob; Bairrao, Ana; Berson, … - 2017
We explore the impact of wage adjustment on employment with a focus on the role of downward nominal wage rigidities. We use a harmonised survey dataset, which covers 25 European countries in the period 2010-2013. These data are particularly useful for this paper given the firm-level information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732749
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Technology, outsourcing, and the demand for heterogeneous labor: Exploring the industry dimension
Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Wiederhold, Simon - 2010
between labor of different skills (tasks) on the one hand, and technology as well as outsourcing on the other. Our findings …. Outsourcing often correlates negatively with the demand for labor performing explicit and problem-solving tasks. It is mainly … uncorrelated or positively correlated with the demand for labor performing interactive tasks. The outsourcing-related results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008669976