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Impact of COVID-19 on Czech cross-border commuters : legal perspective

Novotny, Lukas - In: Scientific papers of the University of Pardubice 29 (2021) 1, pp. 1-10

The paper focuses on the impact COVID-19 has on Czech cross-border commuters. Emphasis is placed on the legal and political science perspective and on the comparison of measures against traffic at the state border, against the free movement of persons and specifically against commuter workers...

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The policy drivers of self-employment : new evidence from Europe

Mourougane, Annabelle; Égert, Balázs; Baker, Mark; … - 2020

Using cross-country time series panel regressions for the last two decades, this paper seeks to identify the main policy and institutional factors that explain the share of self-employment across European countries. It looks at the aggregate share of self-employed as well as its breakdown by...

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Does employment protection legislation affect credit access? : evidence from Europe

Moro, Andrea; Maresch, Daniela; Ferrando, Annalisa; … - 2017

We investigate the impact of employment protection on firms' credit access by looking at both credit obtained from banks and firms' decision to apply for a loan. We find that greater flexibility in structuring the employees' working hours and in dismissing employees increases the probability...

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Do Frictions Matter in the Labor Market?Accessions, Separations and Minimum Wage Effects

Dube, Arindrajit; Lester, T. William; Reich, Michael - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

We measure labor market frictions using a strategy that bridges design-based and structuralapproaches: estimating an equilibrium search model using reduced-form minimum wageelasticities identified from border discontinuities and fitted with Bayesian and LIML methods.We begin by providing the...

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Anmerkungen zum Monopson am Arbeitsmarkt: Der Zeithorizont macht den Unterschied

Sell, Friedrich L.; Reinisch, David C. - 2012

Ob die Marktform des Monopsons am Arbeitsmarkt vorliegt, ist fur die Frage des Für oder Wider des Mindestlohns von … Strukturen am Arbeitsmarkt nachgewiesen werden, die Einführung eines Mindestlohns nicht nur zu einer exogenen Lohnerhöhung für … gilt fur den Unternehmer mit Marktmacht am Arbeitsmarkt genau dasselbe, was auch fur alle anderen Unternehmer ohne …

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Taming the Employment Sharks : The Case for Regulating Profit-Driven Labor Market Intermediaries in High Mobility Labor Markets

Freeman, Harris - 2011

The Article presents an argument for reclassifying and regulating commercial staffing agencies, most importantly the temporary help staffing agency. We conclude that a new legal status for profit-driven labor market intermediaries (LMIs) is essential to building a regulatory regime that can end...

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Minimum wages in concentrated labor markets

Popp, Martin - 2021

Economists increasingly refer to monopsony power to reconcile the absence of negativeemployment effects of minimum wages with theory. However, systematic evidence for themonopsony argument is scarce. In this paper, I perform a comprehensive test of monop-sony theory by using labor market...

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Minimum wages in concentrated labor markets

Popp, Martin - 2021

Economists increasingly refer to monopsony power to reconcile the absence of negative employment effects of minimum wages with theory. However, systematic evidence for the monopsony argument is scarce. In this paper, I perform a comprehensive test of monopsony theory by using labor market...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012795776

Monopsonistic Competition in Formal and Informal Labor Markets

To, Ted - 2008

The workhorse of urban labor theory in development economics is the formal/informal model of labor market segmentation and its variants. The seminal Harris-Todaro model has been extended over the years to cope with various empirical puzzles not explained in the original framework. However, one...

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Policy brief: employer market power in Silicon Valley

Gibson, Matthew - 2021

Adam Smith alleged that secret employer collusion to reduce labor earnings is common. This paper examines an important case of such behavior: no-poach agreements through which technology companies agreed not to compete for each other's workers. Exploiting the plausibly random timing of a US...

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