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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
4494 Miguel Fuentes
Pablo Ibarrarán
Firm Dynamics and Real Exchange Rate Fluctuations: Does Trade Openness Matter? Evidence from Mexico’s Manufacturing Sector
In this paper we study the effect of NAFTA on the responsiveness of Mexican economy to real exchange rate shocks. We argue that, by opening the U.S. and Canadian markets to Mexican goods, NAFTA made ...
(published in: Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, 2012, 21 (3), 409 - 469)
F36, F41
4493 Shuming Bao
Örn B. Bodvarsson
Jack W. Hou
Yaohui Zhao
The Regulation of Migration in a Transition Economy: China’s Hukou System
Unlike most countries, China regulates internal migration. Public benefits, access to good quality housing, schools, health care, and attractive employment opportunities are available only to those ...
(published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2011, 29 (4), 564 - 579)
J61
4492 René Böheim
Martina Zweimüller
The Employment of Temporary Agency Workers in the UK: With or Against the Trade Unions?
A firm's decision to employ agency workers may be perceived as a replacement of directly employed workers or as way to curb union power, which trade unions would oppose. Alternatively, trade unions ...
(published in: Economica, 2013, 80 (317), 65–95)
D21, J31, J40
4489 Magne Mogstad
Chiara D. Pronzato
Are Lone Mothers Responsive to Policy Changes? Evidence from a Workfare Reform in a Generous Welfare State
There is a heated debate in many European countries about a move towards a welfare system that increases the incentives for lone mothers to move off welfare and into work. We analyze the consequences ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, 114 (4), 1129–1159)
C23, I32, I38, J00
4488 Uwe Blien
Wolfgang Dauth
Thorsten Schank
Claus Schnabel
The Institutional Context of an "Empirical Law": The Wage Curve under Different Regimes of Collective Bargaining
The wage curve identified by Blanchflower and Oswald (1994) postulates that the wage level is a decreasing function of the regional unemployment rate. In testing this hypothesis, most empirical ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2013, 51 (1), 59-79)
J50
4487 Kornelius Kraft
Jörg Stank
Ralf Dewenter
Co-determination and Innovation
This paper examines the effect of the German co-determination law of 1976 (MitbestG) on the innovative activity of German firms. Co-determination applies to firms with 2000 employees or more. Data ...
(published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2011, 35 (1), 145 - 172)
J5, L2, O3
4484 Vladimir Gimpelson
Rostislav Kapeliushnikov
Anna Lukiyanova
Employment Protection Legislation in Russia: Regional Enforcement and Labour Market Outcomes
Since formal laws can be observed or ignored to varying degrees, the actual enforcement regime shapes incentives and constraints. Most of the studies exploring EPL effects on labour market ...
(published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2010, 52 (4), 611-636)
J21, J23, J52, K31, R23
4483 Ansgar H. Belke
Ingo Bordon
Inna Melnykovska
Rainer Schweickert
Prospective NATO or EU Membership and Institutional Change in Transition Countries
This paper quantifies the impact of incentives related to potential membership on institutional change as measured by the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2011, 19 (4), 667-692)
F15, F20, F50, P20, P30, O19
4482 Timothy J. Halliday
Hui He
Hao Zhang
Health Investment over the Life-Cycle
We study the evolution of health investment over the life-cycle by calibrating a model of endogenous health accumulation. The model is able to produce the decline in labor supply with age as well as ...
(published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2019, 23 (1), 178-215. )
I12
4481 Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Vincent A. Hildebrand
Portfolio Allocation in the Face of a Means-Tested Public Pension
Is there evidence that households adjust their asset portfolios just prior to retirement in response to a means-tested public pension? We address this question by estimating a system of asset ...
(pubished in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2011, 57 (3), 536 - 560)
H30, H31, D31
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