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Addison, John T.; Belfield, Clive R. - 2008

The present paper uses a combination of workplace and linked employee-workplace data from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey and the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey to examine the impact of unions on training incidence, training intensity/coverage, and training duration. It...

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Public sector pay gap in France: new evidence using panel data

Bargain, Olivier; Melly, Blaise - 2008

We estimate the public wage gap in France for the period 1990-2002, both at the mean and at different quantiles of the wage distribution, for men and women separately. We account for unobserved heterogeneity by using fixed effects estimations on panel data and, departing from usual practice,...

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Do unemployment benefits promote or hinder structural change?

Boeri, Tito; Macis, Mario - 2008

According to recent and largely untested theories, unemployment benefits (UBs) could improve the extent and quality of … job reallocation even at the cost of increasing unemployment. Using yearly panel data from a large number of countries, we … evaluate empirically the relationship between unemployment benefits and structural change. Unlike previous work assessing the …

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How do very open economies absorb large immigration flows? recent evidence from Spanish regions

González Luna, Libertad; Ortega, Francesc - 2008

In recent years, Spain has received unprecedented immigration flows. Between 2001 and 2006 the fraction of the population born abroad more than doubled, increasing from 4.8% to 10.8%. For Spanish provinces with above-median inflows (relative to population), immigration increased the high school...

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The impact of college graduation on geographic mobility: identifying education using multiple components of Vietnam draft risk

Malamud, Ofer; Wozniak, Abigail - 2008

College-educated workers are twice as likely as high school graduates to make lasting long-distance moves, but little is known about the role of college itself in determining geographic mobility. Unobservable characteristics related to selection into college might also drive the relationship...

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Enlarging the EMU to the east: what effects on trade?

Belke, Ansgar; Spies, Julia - 2008

The purpose of this paper is to assess the implications of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) accession of eight Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) on their share in EMU-12 imports. Overcoming biases related to endogeneity, omitted variables and sample selection, our results...

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Job protection legislation and productivity growth in OECD countries

Bassanini, Andrea; Nunziata, Luca; Venn, Danielle - 2008

This paper examines the impact of employment protection legislation on productivity in the OECD, using annual cross-country aggregate data on the degree of regulations and industry-level data on productivity from 1982 to 2003. We adopt a difference-in-differences framework, which exploits likely...

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New evidence on the dynamic wage curve for Western Germany: 1980 - 2004

Baltagi, Badi H.; Blien, Uwe; Wolf, Katja - 2008

. According to their empirical results, the elasticity of wages with respect to regional unemployment is -0.1. This holds … one should account for wage dynamics. The unemployment elasticity is significant but relatively small: only between -0 …

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Why remit? The case of Nicaragua

Naufal, George S. - 2008

In the last two decades remittances have gained interest due to their large size. For several developing countries remittances constitute a large portion of their GDP and sometimes exceed FDI. While FDIs are usually profit driven, it is not clear what the driving force behind remittances is....

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Does distance determine who attends a university in Germany?

Spieß, Christa Katharina; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2008

We analyze the role of distance from a university in the decision to attend higher education in Germany. Students who live near a university can avoid moving and the increased living expenses by commuting. Thus, transaction cost arguments would suggest that the greater the distance to the...

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