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Finseraas, Henning - 2018

To what extent is labour mobility in the European Union a threat to the strength of unions? We argue that the combination of cheap labour, workforce heterogeneity, and low unionization among labour immigrants' is a potential challenge for unions. The challenge will be particularly severe if...

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Chapter 53 Recent developments in public sector labor markets

Gregory, Robert G.; Borland, Jeff - In: Handbook of labor economics : volume 3, part C, (pp. 3573-3630). 1999

This chapter reviews recent developments in research on public sector labor markets. Public sector labor markets have two important characteristics which account for the interest in their operation. First, public sector labor markets are large — in most developed countries the public sector...

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Labor Market : Monopolistic Exploitation by Firms and Employees

Nomidis, Dimitrios - 2015

Based on the author's previous paper entitled “A Reconsideration of the Theory of Perfect Competition”, which demonstrates the monopolistic nature that even purely theoretically perfect competition has, this paper identifies the factors that determine the equilibrium in the labor market as...

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Demographic and Education Effects on Unemployment in Europe : Economic Factors and Labour Market Institutions

Biagi, Federico; Lucifora, Claudio - 2021

We analyse the effects of demographic and education changes on unemployment rates in Europe. Using a panel of European countries for the 1980-2000 period - disaggregated by cohort, gender and education, - we empirically test the economic effects of two stylised facts that have occurred in recent...

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Labour Market Institutions and Wage Inequality

Koeniger, Winfried; Nunziata, L.; Leonardi, Marco - 2021

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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Labor market effects of bounds on domestic outsourcing

Jiménez, Bruno; Rendón, Sílvio - 2022

We investigate the labor market effects of putting bounds to domestic outsourcing in Peru. A series of difference … market effects. Limiting domestic outsourcing increases labor force participation by 1.5 percentage points and employment by … impact on labor formality nor real wages. Our results suggest that a policy of restricting outsourcing does neither destruct …

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Social security, labour market and restructuring : current situation and expected outcomes of reforms

Góra, Marek; Kula, Grzegorz; Rokicka, Magdalena; … - 2009

The paper focuses on the social safety nets in Russian Federation and Ukraine in the view of changes on the labour market since the beginning of economic transition. We showed that many past phenomena (e.g. restructuring of the economy, wage and pension arrears, new groups at-risk-of-poverty,...

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The cyclicality of immigrant wages and labour market flows : evidence from Spain

Gálvez-Iniesta, Ismael - In: Economics : the open-access, open-assessment journal 16 (2022) 1, pp. 90-122

This article studies the responses of real wages and labour market flows of immigrants in Spain for the period between 1999 and 2019. By using Labour Force Survey microdata, I examine the cyclicality of job-finding and job-separation rates for immigrants and natives over the long Spanish...

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Social security, labour market and restructuring: Current situation and expected outcomes of reforms

Góra, Marek; Kula, Grzegorz; Rokicka, Magdalena; … - 2009

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Structural Estimation of Search Intensity:Do Non-Employed Workers Search Enough?

Gautier, Pieter; Moraga-González, José Luis; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We present a structural framework for the evaluation of public policies intended to increasejob search intensity. Most of the literature defines search intensity as a scalar that influencesthe arrival rate of job offers; here we treat it as the number of job applications that workerssend out....

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