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The Impact of Liberalizing Labor Mobility in the Pacific Region

Walmsley, Terrie; Ahmed, Syud Amer; Parsons, Christopher - 2005

Due to the lack of political consensus at the previous General Agreement on Trade on Services (GATS), negotiations on the temporary movement of natural persons (Mode 4) have stagnated. The growth in the economic literature surrounding this issue has also been lackluster; despite the large...

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Workplace Organization, Labor Process Control and Occupational Health

Treiber, Linda Ann - 2006

, and general health status. I suggest that labor process autonomy, social cohesion and skill utilization generally have …

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Computer Technology, Human Labor, and Long-Run Economic Growth

Elliott, Stuart W. - 1998

plausible increases in computer skill. The projected output growth is accompanied by structural changes reflecting the reduced … substantially affect the levels of output and wage growth in the near future. The 2-type model, with fixed skill differences between … different workers, produces similar growth in output and average wages over the next several decades. However, the worker skill …

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Offshoring Jobs? Multinationnals and U.S. Manufacturing Employment

Harrison, Ann; McMillan, Margaret - 2007

Critics of globalization claim that U.S. manufacturing firms are being driven by the prospects of cheaper labor to shift employment abroad. Yet the evidence, beyond anecdotes, is slim. Using firm-level data collected by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), we estimate the impact on U.S....

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The Microeconomic Implications of Input Market Regulations: Cross-Country Evidence from Within the Firm

Lafontaine, Francine; Sivadasan, Jagadeesh - 2007

We investigate the microeconomic effects of labor regulations that protect employment and are expected to increase rigidity in labor markets. We exploit a unique outlet-level dataset obtained from a multinational food chain operating about 2,840 retail outlets in 43 countries outside the United...

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Do Multinational Enterprises Substitute Parent Jobs for Foreign Ones? Evidence from Firm Level Panel Data

Konings, Jozef; Murphey, Alan - 2001

This paper analyzes the demand for labor by home multinational enterprises (MNEs) in Europe. To this end we use a unique firm level panel data set of more than 1,200 European multinational enterprises and their subsidiaries that are located in either the European Union, Central and Eastern...

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Labor Market Frictions and Dynamic Labor Demand.

Michaels, Ryan - 2010

This dissertation explores the microeconomic and aggregate implications of an array of employmentadjustment frictions. Chapter 1 investigates the JOBS Bank, a unique employment adjustment cost that prevailed in the domestic automobile industry for nearly 20 years. The JOBS Bank required...

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House prices and employment reallocation : international evidence

Bover Hidiroglu, Olympia; Jimeno Serrano, Juan F. - 2007

Over the last decade house prices increased remarkably in many countries. However, while in several countries there was an employment boom in the construction sector, in others the share of employment in this sector did not significantly change. In this paper we estimate a model of labor demand...

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Minimum wages : do they really hurt young people?

Galán, Sofía; Puente Díaz, Sergio - 2012

We estimate the effects of a signifi cant increase in the minimum wage in Spain between 2004 and 2010 on the individual probability of losing employment, using a large panel of social security records. Our main finding is that older people experienced the largest increase in the probability of...

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Contract staggering and unemployment during the great recession : evidence from Spain

Díez-Catalán, Luis; Villanueva López, Ernesto - 2014

extended to all firms, setting wage minima for workers in the same province-industry-skill cell. We identify the impact of wage … analysis of a subsample of contracts with information about the exact province-industry-skill level minimum wage suggests that …

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