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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
812 John T. Addison
Thorsten Schank
Claus Schnabel
Joachim Wagner
German Works Councils in the Production Process
In a sharp break with past German research, some recent estimates have suggested that plants with work councils have 25 to 30 per cent higher productivity than their works-councilfree counterparts. ...
(published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften/Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2006, 126 (2), 251-283)
J50
811 Miles Corak
Wen-Hao Chen
Firms, Industries, and Unemployment Insurance: An Analysis Using Employer-Employee Data
Administrative data on the universe of employees, firms, and unemployment insurance (UI) recipients in Canada over an 11 year period are used to examine the operation of UI using the firm as the ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2007, 26, 299-336)
J65, H25
809 Simon Commander
Mari Kangasniemi
L. Alan Winters
The Brain Drain: Curse or Boon?
The migration of skilled individuals from developing countries has typically been considered to be costly for the sending country, due to lost investments in education, high fiscal costs and labour ...
(published in: R. Baldwin and L. A. Winters (eds.), Challenges to Globalisation. NBER and University of Chicago Press, 2004)
J6, F2, O1
808 Frédéric Docquier
Hillel Rapoport
Remittances and Inequality: A Dynamic Migration Model
We develop a model of the interdependencies between migration, remittances and inequality, and investigate how migration and subsequent remittances affect inter-household inequality in the origin ...
(new version published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2010, 8 (2), 187-200)
O11, O15, J61, D31
806 Gerard J. van den Berg
Multiple Equilibria and Minimum Wages in Labor Markets with Informational Frictions and Heterogeneous Production Technologies
It is often argued that a mandatory minimum wage is binding only if the wage density displays a spike at it. In this paper we analyze a model with search frictions and heterogeneous production ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2003, 44 (4), 1337-1357)
J3, D83, J42, J6, C72
805 Gerard J. van den Berg
Aico van Vuuren
The Effect of Search Frictions on Wages
Labor market theories allowing for search frictions make marked predictions on the effect of the degree of frictions on wages. Often, the effect is predicted to be negative. Despite the popularity ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (6), 875-885)
J3, J6, J4, C5
802 Heather Antecol
Peter J. Kuhn
Stephen J. Trejo
Assimilation via Prices or Quantities? Labor Market Institutions and Immigrant Earnings Growth in Australia, Canada, and the United States
How do international differences in labor market institutions affect the nature of immigrant earnings assimilation? Using 1980/81 and 1990/91 cross-sections of census data from Australia, Canada, ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2006, 41 (4), 821-840)
J38, J64
800 Thomas Beissinger
Christoph Knoppik
Sind Nominallöhne starr? Neuere Evidenz und wirtschaftspolitische Implikationen
Bei Vorliegen nach unten starrer Nominallöhne erschwert niedrige Inflation Reallohnanpassungen und führt so möglicherweise zu erhöhter gleichgewichtiger Arbeitslosigkeit. Dieser Aufsatz analysiert ...
(published in: Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 2005, 6 (2), 171-188)
J30, E24, E31, E52
799 Robert A. Hart
General Human Capital and Employment Adjustment in the Great Depression: Apprentices and Journeymen in UK Engineering
The relationship between training and firm-level employment adjustment given an unanticipated fall in product demand has been central to human capital theory. The most cataclysmic negative output ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2005, 57 (1), 169-189)
E24, J24, N34
798 James J. Heckman
Jeffrey A. Smith
The Determinants of Participation in a Social Program: Evidence from a Prototypical Job Training Program
This paper decomposes the participation process of a prototypical program into eligibility, awareness, application, acceptance and enrollment. With this decomposition, we determine the sources of ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2004, 22 (2), 243-298)
J24
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