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An Alternative Approach to Testing Dual Labour Market Theory
Launov, Andrey - 2021
In this paper we suggest an alternative approach to testing for the dual structure of the labour market. The novelty of the suggested approach is that rather than considering wage determination we concentrate on the turnover. To perform the test we suggest using a latent class count data...
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The impact of temporary agency work on trade union wage setting : a theoretical analysis
Beissinger, Thomas; Baudy, Philipp - 2015
Focusing on the cost-reducing motive behind the use of temporary agency employment, this paper aims at providing a better theoretical understanding of the effects of temporary agency work on the wage-setting process, trade unions' rents, firms' profits and employment. It is shown that trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472489
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The impact of temporary agency work on trade union wage setting : a theoretical analysis
Beissinger, Thomas; Baudy, Philipp - 2015
Focusing on the cost-reducing motive behind the use of temporary agency employment, this paper aims at providing a better theoretical understanding of the effects of temporary agency work on the wage-setting process, trade unions' rents, firms' profits and employment. It is shown that trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010502782
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Wandel im Personalmanagement : Differenzierung und Integration im Interesse weiblicher Führungskräfte
Autenrieth, Christine - 1996
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Fixed-term contracts and employment adjustment : an empirical test of the core-periphery hypothesis using German establishment data
Pfeifer, Christian - In: The economic record : er 85 (2009), pp. 92-107
Fixed-term contracts (FTCs), an important feature of the employment relationship of the peripheral workforce, are … peripheral workforce to adjust the level of employment to the profit maximising level in case of demand fluctuations. (ii) Thanks … to the utilisation of FTCs, the core workforce is less exposed to employment adjustment. Both hypotheses are supported by …
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Compliance with the institutional wage in dualistic models
Martins, Ana Paula - 2011
This research extends simple two-sector models in order to inquire the impact of the extent of coverage or enforcement of minimum wage legislation in one of the sectors on the equilibrium outcome. Two versions of institutional wage avoidance are presented. They may be seen as representing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524841
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Compliance with the institutional wage in dualistic models
Martins, Ana Paula - 2011
This research extends simple two-sector models in order to inquire the impact of the extent of coverage or enforcement of minimum wage legislation in one of the sectors on the equilibrium outcome. Two versions of institutional wage avoidance are presented. They may be seen as representing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524877
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Technological Change, Relative Wages, and Unemployment
Agenor, Pierre-Richard - 2006
This paper examines the effect of skill-biased technological change on the structure of wages, the composition of employment and the level of unemployment in a two-sector economy with a heterogenous work force. Efficiency wage considerations and minimum wage legislation lead to labor market...
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Efficiency Wages and Labor Mobility in an Open Economy
Agenor, Pierre-Richard - 2006
The paper analyzes the role of labor market segmentation and relative wage rigidity in the transmission process of macroeconomic shocks in a two-sector optimizing model of a small open economy. The analysis is first conducted in the context of perfect intersectoral labor mobility. The discussion...
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