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Internationaler Vergleich der Arbeitskosten: Warum Deutschland keine starken Lohnerhöhungen verträgt
Sinn, Hans-Werner - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 60 (2007) 04, pp. 54-59
durch die angeblich überlegene Produktivität der deutschen Wirtschaft erklärt. Deutschland hat im internationalen Vergleich …Laut den Zahlen des Statistischen Bundesamtes oder des Instituts der deutschen Wirtschaft hat Deutschland unter den … großen Industrieländern noch immer die höchsten Stundenlohnkosten für Industriearbeiter. Nur kleinere Länder wie Dänemark …
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Kaldorian cumulative causation in the Euro area : an empirical assessment of divergent export competitiveness
Keil, Sascha; Paternesi Meloni, Walter - 2024
Over the past decades, models of circular and cumulative causation, based on the endogenous relations between prices, exports, and labour productivity, have lost prominence in explaining economic dynamics. We argue that, in the absence of counterbalancing mechanisms, the combination of...
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High wage workers match with high wage firms: Clear evidence of the effects of limited mobility bias
Andrews, Martyn J.; Gill, Leonard; Schank, Thorsten; … - 2012
Positive assortative matching implies that high productivity workers and firms match together. However, there is almost no evidence of a positive correlation between the worker and firm contributions in two-way fixed-effects wage equations. This could be the result of a bias caused by standard...
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High wage workers match with high wage firms : clear evidence of the effects of limited mobility bias
Andrews, Martyn J.; Gill, Leonard; Schank, Thorsten; … - 2012
Positive assortative matching implies that high productivity workers and firms match together. However, there is almost no evidence of a positive correlation between the worker and firm contributions in two-way fixed-effects wage equations. This could be the result of a bias caused by standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009550579
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High Wage Workers Match with High Wage Firms : Clear Evidence of the Effects of Limited Mobility Bias
Andrews, Martyn J. - 2012
Positive assortative matching implies that high productivity workers and firms match together. However, there is almost no evidence of a positive correlation between the worker and firm contributions in two-way fixed-effects wage equations. This could be the result of a bias caused by standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104657
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The Twin Effects of Globalization - Evidence from a Sample of Indian Manufacturing Firms
Daveri, Francesco - 2010
Employees of globalized firms face a riskier menu of labor market outcomes. They face a more uncertain stream of earnings and riskier employment prospects. However, they may also have stronger incentives to train and upgrade their skills and/or may benefit from more rapid careers. Hence, the...
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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...
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Unit labor costs and manufacturing sector performance in Africa
Naidoo, Karmen; Ndikumana, Léonce - 2020
Several studies have highlighted that African manufacturing wages are higher than comparator countries at similar levels of development, which contributes to the continent’s lower levels of manufacturing competitiveness. This paper derives unit labor costs - average wages relative to...
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Does the outsourcing affect labour costs in enterprises? : evidence from firm-level data
Grześ, Anna - 2015
This empirical paper examines an impact of materials and services outsourcing on labour costs in two groups: industrial and construction enterprises, and services enterprises in Poland in the period 2005-2013. The analysis of this dependence was based on data of Central Statistical Office...
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Decentralisation of collective bargaining : a path to productivity?
Aglio, Daniele; Di Mauro, Filippo - 2020
Productivity developments have been rather divergent across EU countries and particularly between Central Eastern Europe (CEE) and elsewhere in the continent (non-CEE). How is such phenomenon related to wage bargaining institutions? Starting from the Great Financial Crisis (GFC) shock, we...
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