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A Relative Unit Labor Cost: Case of Accession Countries

Tica, Josip; Jurčić, Ljubo - Ekonomski Fakultet, Sveučilište u Zagrebu - 2006

In this paper, framework of the relative labor cost has been used in order to analyze relative competitiveness of the economic agents in the Croatia and five accession countries. Therefore, unit labor costs have been calculated for the Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and...

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An Incentive Theory of Matching

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are heterogeneous variations in the characteristics of workers and jobs, and firms face adjustment costs in responding to these variations. Matches and separations are described...

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Intermarriage and Immigrant Employment: The Role of Networks

Furtado, Delia; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2009

immigrant employment rates. We show that even when controlling for a variety of human capital and assimilation measures … variation in marriage market conditions suggests that the relationship between marriage decisions and employment rates is not …

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Determinants for contract wages in Germany

Neumann, Manfred; Schmidt, Roland; Schulte, Elisabeth - University of Bonn, Germany - 1989

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Nature or nurture? learning and female labor force dynamics

Fogli, Alessandra; Veldkamp, Laura - Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis - 2007

differences in employment preferences that have been the focus of a large empirical literature. Survey data, wage data and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004993843

On the employment effect of technology : evidence from U.S. manufacturing for 1958-1996

Chang, Yongsung; Hong, Jay H. - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond - 2003

Recently, Galí and others have found that technological progress may be contractionary: a favorable technology shock reduces hours worked in the short run. We ask whether this observation is robust in disaggregate data. According to our VAR analysis of 458 four-digit U.S. manufacturing...

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Firm fragmentation and urban patterns

Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban; Sarte, Pierre-Daniel G.; … - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond - 2005

areas over the period 1980-1990. These regularities relate to changes in resident population, employment, occupations, as …

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The competitiveness of rural county manufacturing during a period of dollar appreciation

Bechter, Dan M.; Chmura, Christine - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond - 1990

competition. But we did find two studies indicating that manufacturing employment in non-metropolitan areas had fared as well or …

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Understanding how employment responds to productivity shocks in a model with inventories

Chang, Yongsung; Hornstein, Andreas; Sarte, Pierre-Daniel G. - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond - 2006

Whether technological progress raises or lowers aggregate employment in the short run has been the subject of much … debate in recent years. Using a simple model of industry employment, we show that cross-industry differences of inventory … holding costs, demand elasticities, and price rigidities potentially all affect employment decisions in the face of …

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Classical deflation theory

Humphrey, Thomas M. - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond - 2003

on output and employment. They attributed these effects to price-wage stickiness; to rises in real debt, tax, and cost …

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