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Wage equalization and regional misallocation : evidence from Italian and German provinces
Boeri, Tito; Ichino, Andrea; Moretti, Enrico; Posch, Johanna - In: Journal of the European Economic Association : JEEA 19 (2021) 6, pp. 3249-3292
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Wage equalization and regional misallocation : evidence from Italian and German provinces
Boeri, Tito; Ichino, Andrea; Moretti, Enrico; Posch, Johanna - 2019
reduce inequality. We study the local and aggregate effects of collective bargaining in Italy and Germany. The two countries … have similar geographical differences in firm productivity - with the North more productive than the South in Italy and the … West more productive than the East in Germany - but have adopted different models of wage bargaining. Italy sets wages …
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Wage equalization and regional misallocation : evidence from Italian and German provinces
Boeri, Tito; Ichino, Andrea; Moretti, Enrico; Posch, Johanna - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011997628
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Product market regulation, firm size, unemployment and informality in developing economies
Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck; Terra, Cristina - 2011
This paper studies the impact of product and labor market regulations on informality and unemployment in a general framework where formal and informal firms are subject to the same externalities, differing only with respect to some parameter values. Both formal and informal firms have monopoly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278505
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Product market regulation, firm size, unemployment and informality in developing economies
Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck; Terra, Cristina - 2011
This paper studies the impact of product and labor market regulations on informality and unemployment in a general framework where formal and informal firms are subject to the same externalities, differing only with respect to some parameter values. Both formal and informal firms have monopoly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009230678
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Wealth Accumulation, On-the-Job Search and Inequality
Chaumont, Gaston - 2020
We study a directed search equilibrium with risk-averse workers who can search on the job and accumulate non-contingent assets under a borrowing limit. Search outcomes affect earnings and wealth accumulation. In turn, wealth and earnings affect search decisions by changing the optimal trade-off...
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Labour Market Institutions and Wage Inequality
Koeniger, Winfried; Leonardi, Marco; Nunziata, Luca - 2004
In this paper we investigate the importance of labor market institutions such as unemployment insurance, unions, firing regulation and minimum wages for the evolution of wage inequality across countries. We derive a simple log-linear equation of the wage differential as a function of the...
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Flexible outsourcing and the impacts of labour taxation in European welfare states
Koskela, Erkki; Poutvaara, Panu - 2008
In European Welfare States, low-skilled workers are typically unionized, while the wage formation of high-skilled workers is more competitive. To focus on this aspect, we analyze how flexible international outsourcing and labour taxation affect wage formation, employment and welfare in dual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264468
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The role of profit sharing in a dual labour market with flexible outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - 2009
We analyze the following questions associated with flexible outsourcing under partly imperfect dual domestic labour markets, where high skilled workers participate in firm's profit via profit sharing: How does the implementation of profit sharing influence flexible outsourcing? What is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264546
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The role of profit sharing in a dual labour market with flexible outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - 2009
We analyze the following questions associated with flexible outsourcing under partly imperfect dual domestic labour markets, where high skilled workers participate in firm's profit via profit sharing: How does the implementation of profit sharing influence flexible outsourcing? What is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003807792