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The Carrot and the Stick: The Business Cycle Implications of Incentive Pay in the Labor Search Model

Champagne, Julien - 2015

This paper considers a real business cycle model with labor search frictions where two types of incentive pay are …

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The effects of the EU equal-treatment legislation Directive for fixed-term workers: Evidence from the UK

Salvatori, Andrea - 2014

In 2002, the United Kingdom implemented the EU directive mandating equal treatment of fixed-term and permanent workers. This paper uses eleven years of data from the Labour Force Survey to assess whether the new legislation has led to a decrease in the average wage gap between fixed-term and...

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Composite indicators of flexibilization across EU regions: a critical re-appraisal and interpretation

Gialis, Stelios; Leontidou, Lila; Taylor, Michael - 2014

international and EU competitors. The paper stresses that the search for less rigidity and enhanced employability in labour markets …

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Regional Commuting in Italy: Do Temporary Contracts Affect the Decision?

Parenti, Angela; Tealdi, Cristina - 2015

In this paper we study how the determinants of regional commuting in Italy have evolved in the past fifteen years. Using labour force data from 1992 to 2008 we estimate a model where the probability of commuting is regressed on a wide set of individual, job, firm and regional characteristics....

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The Japanese Labour Market during the Global Financial Crisis and the Role of Non-Standard Work: A Micro Perspective

Hijzen, Alexander; Kambayashi, Ryo; Teruyama, Hiroshi; … - 2015

This paper analyses aggregate labour dynamics during the global financial crisis in Japan and the role of nonstandard work using micro data. The analysis proceeds in two steps. First, using comprehensive establishment-level datasets for the period 1991-2009, it provides a detailed portrait of...

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Can Reputation Discipline the Gig Economy? Experimental Evidence from an Online Labor Market

Benson, Alan; Sojourner, Aaron J.; Umyarov, Akhmed - 2015

In two experiments, we examine the effects of employer reputation in an online labor market (Amazon Mechanical Turk) in which employers may decline to pay workers while keeping their work product. First, in an audit study of employers by a blinded worker, we find that working only for good...

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The consequences of trade union power erosion

Addison, John T. - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

The micro- and macroeconomic effects of the declining power of trade unions have been hotly debated by economists and policymakers. Nevertheless, the empirical evidence shows that the impact of the decline on economic aggregates and firm performance is not an overwhelming cause for concern....

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Getting stable: an evaluation of the incentives for permanent contracts in Italy

Ciani, Emanuele; De Blasio, Guido - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 6, pp. 1-29

There is little evidence as to the effectiveness of incentives for the conversion of fixed-term contracts into permanent jobs. We aim at filling this gap by studying a recent Italian program which provides benefits for employers who convert contracts for workers in specific demographic groups...

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The cost of job loss

Burdett, Ken; Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Coles, Melvyn - 2015

In this paper we develop and quantitatively assess a tractable equilibrium search model of the labour market to analyse … firm specific compensation, interruptions to workers' on-the-job search and due to turnover heterogeneity. A key feature is … that firms post wage-tenure contracts as an optimal response to their employees' search behaviour and human capital …

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Optimal Monetary Policy under Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity

Carlsson, Mikael; Westermark, Andreas - 2007

We develop a New Keynesian model with staggered price and wage setting where downward nominal wage rigidity (DNWR) arises endogenously through the wage bargaining institutions. It is shown that the optimal (discretionary) monetary policy response to changing economic conditions then becomes...

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