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Open labor markets and firms' substitution between training apprentices and hiring workers
Aepli, Manuel; Kuhn, Andreas - 2019
In this paper, we study whether Swiss employers substitute between training apprentices and hiring cross-border workers …. Because both training apprentices and hiring skilled workers are costly for firms, we hypothesize that (easier) access to … cross-border workers will lead some employers to substitute away from training their own workers. We account for potential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012036439
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Wage and employment determination in volatile times : Sweden 1913-1939
Holmlund, Bertil - 2012 - This version: April 18, 2012
The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s. This period includes the boom and bust cycle of the early 1920s as well as the Great Depression of the early 1930s. The events of the early 1920s are particularly intriguing,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009533963
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Wage and employment determination in volatile times : Sweden 1913 - 1939
Holmund, Bertil - 2012
The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s. This period includes the boom and bust cycle of the early 1920s as well as the Great Depression of the early 1930s. The events of the early 1920s are particularly intriguing,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009534172
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Wage and employment determination in volatile times : Sweden 1913 - 1939
Holmlund, Bertil - 2012
The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s. This period includes the boom and bust cycle of the early 1920s as well as the Great Depression of the early 1930s. The events of the early 1920s are particularly intriguing,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009536419
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Wage and employment effects of a wage norm : the Polish transition experience
De Crombrugghe, Alain Leon; De Walque, Gregory - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824169
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Wage and employment effects of a wage norm : the Polish transition experience
De Crombrugghe, Alain Leon; De Walque, Gregory - 2011
Most transition countries used tax-supported wage norms in the early 1990's, as a part of their market liberalization programs. This paper analyses how a firm-level tax (or subsidy) on deviations from a pre-set wage norm may promote employment by rotating the labor demand curve perceived by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596395
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The Returns to Education and Training: Evidence from the Malaysian Family Life Surveys
Chung, Tsung-Ping - School of Economics, University of Kent - 2000
The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the private returns to education and training for a random sample of …'s training experience. The results indicate that there are positive and economically significant returns to education and … training. We also investigate the determinants of training and find that training participation is positively related to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181042
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Wage setting in the Colombian manufacturing industry
Agudelo, Sonia A.; Sala, Hector - 2015
We show that wage setting in the Colombian manufacturing industry is not fundamentally driven by labor productivity in contrast to the standard theoretical prediction. On the contrary, internal institutional arrangements – payroll taxation, the minimum wage or the price wedge between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010502793
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Wages and informality in developing countries
Meghir, Costas; Narita, Renata; Robin, Jean-Marc - 2012
It is often argued that informal labor markets in developing countries promote growth by reducing the impact of regulation. On the other hand informality may reduce the amount of social protection offered to workers. We extend the wage-posting framework of Burdett and Mortensen (1998) to allow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009627561
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Wages and Informality in Developing Countries
Meghir, Costas - 2012
It is often argued that informal labor markets in developing countries promote growth by reducing the impact of regulation. On the other hand informality may reduce the amount of social protection offered to workers. We extend the wage-posting framework of Burdett and Mortensen (1998) to allow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100382