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Union Density and Varieties of Coverage: The Anatomy of Union Wage Effects in Germany,
Bernd Fitzenberger, Karsten Kohn and Alexander Lembcke, from Centre for Economic Performance, LSE (2008)
Keywords: Union density, collective bargaining coverage, wage structure, quantile regression,linked employer-employer data, Structure of Earnings Survey 2001, Germany.

Efficiency Wages and the Economic Effects of the Minimum Wage: Evidence from a Low-Wage Labour Market,
Andreas Georgiadis, from Centre for Economic Performance, LSE (2008)
Keywords: Efficiency Wages, National Minimum Wage, Wage-supervision trade-off

The Ins and Outs of European Unemployment,
Barbara Petrongolo and Christopher Pissarides, from Centre for Economic Performance, LSE (2008)
Keywords: unemployment dynamics, job finding rates, job separation rates

On the Relative Gains to Immigration: A Comparison of the Labour Market Position of Indians in the USA, the UK and India,
Jonathan Wadsworth and Augustin de Coulon, from Centre for Economic Performance, LSE (2008)
Keywords: immigration, wages, relative ranking

On the Extent of Re-Entitlement Effects in Unemployment Compensation,
Javier Ortega and Laurence Rioux, from Centre for Economic Performance, LSE (2008)
Keywords: re-entitlement effects, unemployment compensation, matching

Can Pay Regulation Kill? Panel Data Evidence on the Effect of Labor Markets on Hospital Performance,
Emma Hall, Carol Propper and John van Reenen, from Centre for Economic Performance, LSE (2008)
Keywords: labor market regulation, hospital quality, hospital productivity, skills

Are Shirking and Leisure Substitutable? An Empirical Test of Efficiency Wages based on Urban Economic Theory,
Yves Zenou and Stephen Ross, from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2008)
Keywords: Efficiency wage; Leisure; Urban unemployment

Wage Policies of a Russian Firm and the Financial Crisis of 1998: Evidence from Personnel Data - 1997 to 2002,
Mark Schaffer, Hartmut Lehmann and Thomas Dohmen, from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2008)
Keywords: Firm-level wage setting; Internal labour markets; Personnel data; Russia

The Role of Firm Size in Training Provision Decisions: evidence from Spain,
Laia Castany, from University of Zurich, Department of Business Administration (IBW) (2008)
Keywords: Continuous training, Firm size, Innovative activity

Recent Investments in Human Capital and its Effect on the Chances of Escaping from Low-Paid Jobs: The Spanish Case,
Maite Blázquez Cuesta and Jose Ramos, from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain), Department of Economic Analysis (Economic Theory and Economic History) (2008)
Keywords: Education; on-the-job training; low pay; bivariate probit

Commuting times: Is there any penalty for immigrants?,
Maite Blázquez Cuesta, Carlos Llano Verduras and Julian Moral Carcedo, from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain), Department of Economic Analysis (Economic Theory and Economic History) (2008)
Keywords: Commuting flows; Immigration; Spatial mismatch; Labour mobility

Uncertainty and the politics of employment protection,
Andrea Vindigni, from Institute of Public Policy and Public Choice - POLIS (2008)
Keywords: employment protection, firing costs, productivity, political economy, rents, volatility, growth, institutional divergence.

The Effects of Overseas Operations on Home Employment of Japanese Multinational Enterprises,
Nobuaki Yamashita and Kyoji Fukao, from Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University (2008)
Keywords: Multinational Enterprises, FDI, Labour demand, hollowing out of manufacturing, Japan

Rural Nonfarm Employment andIncomes in the Himalayas,
Maja Micevska and Dil Rahut, from Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, New Delhi, India (2008)
Keywords: Nonfarm employment; Rural households; Incomes; Education; India

The driving force of labor force participation in developed countries,
Ivan Kitov and Oleg Kitov, from ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (2008)
Keywords: labor force participation, real GDP per capita, prediction

Towards an Employment-centred Development Strategy for Poverty Reduction in The Gambia: Macroeconomic and Labour Market Aspects,
James Heintz, Carlos Oya and Eduardo Zepeda, from International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (2008)
Keywords: employment-centred, development strategy, poverty reduction, Gambia, macroeconomic and labour market

Monitoring and norms in sickness insurance: empirical evidence from a natural experiment,
Patrik Hesselius, Per Johansson and Johan Vikström, from IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (2008)
Keywords: Work norms; social insurance; social interactions; sickness absence

Why Do Firms Train Apprentices? The Net Cost Puzzle Reconsidered,
Jens Mohrenweiser and Thomas Zwick, from ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research (2008)
Keywords: apprenticeship training, performance, panel data estimation

Child labor and schooling responses to production and health shocks in northern Mali,
Andrew Dillon, from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) (2008)
Keywords: Child labor, Production shocks, Health shocks, Labor substitution effects, Schooling, Education, Gender, Women,

The Impact of Earnings Disregards on the Behavior of Low Income Families,
Jordan Matsudaira and Rebecca Blank, from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2008)

Specific capital and vintage effects on the dynamics of unemployment and vacancies,
Burcu Eyigungor, from Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia (2008)
Keywords: Unemployment

The effect of minimum wages on immigrants' employment and earnings,
Pia Orrenius and Madeline Zavodny, from Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (2008)
Keywords: Immigrants; Minimum wage; Human capital; Education; Wages; Employment

Labor Market Institutions Around the World,
Richard Freeman, from Centre for Economic Performance, LSE (2008)
Keywords: labour market, unemployment

Migration and the Wage-Settings Curve: Reassessing the Labor Market Effects of Migration,
Herbert Brücker and Elke Jahn, from University of Aarhus, Aarhus School of Business, Department of Economics (2008)
Keywords: Migration; wage-setting curve; labor markets; panel data

Job Security as an Endogenous Job Characteristic,
Elke Jahn and Thomas Wagner, from University of Aarhus, Aarhus School of Business, Department of Economics (2008)
Keywords: job security; hedonic market; implicit contract theory; guaranteed employment contract; severance pay contract; asymmetric information; prudence

The Transition to Work for Italian University Graduates,
Dario Pozzoli, from University of Aarhus, Aarhus School of Business, Department of Economics (2008)
Keywords: discrete time survival model; unobserved heterogeneity; competing risk model

New Workplace Practices and Firm Performance: A Comparative Study of Italy and Britain,
Annalisa Cristini and Dario Pozzoli, from University of Aarhus, Aarhus School of Business, Department of Economics (2008)
Keywords: Workplace practices; Financial Performance; Italy; UK

Early Labour Market Returns to College Subjects,
Paolo Buonanno and Dario Pozzoli, from University of Aarhus, Aarhus School of Business, Department of Economics (2008)
Keywords: University to work transition; College subject; Self-selection; Returns to education

Low wage after unemployment - the effect of changes in the UI system,
Iben Bolvig, from University of Aarhus, Aarhus School of Business, Department of Economics (2008)
Keywords: No; keywords

Policy Risk in Action: Pension Reforms and Social Security Wealth in Hungary, Czech Republic, and Slovakia,
Libor Dusek and Juraj Kopecsni, from Charles University Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Economic Studies (2008)
Keywords: social security, policy risk, pension reforms

Public-private partnerships in labour markets,
F. Alfonso Arellano, Florentino Felgueroso, Pablo Vázquez and Enrique Gonzalez, from IESE Business School (2008)
Keywords: labour markets; Public-private partnerships;

Propriété immobilière et déqualification dans l’emploi,
Carole Brunet and Nathalie Havet, from Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon St-Étienne (GATE Lyon St-Étienne), Université de Lyon (2008)
Keywords: job matching, overeducation, residential status, wage downgrading

Migrants as second-class workers in urban China? A decomposition analysis,
Sylvie Démurger, Marc Gurgand, Shi Li and Yu Ximing, from Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon St-Étienne (GATE Lyon St-Étienne), Université de Lyon (2008)
Keywords: chinese labor market, discrimination, earnings differentials, migration

A Tale of Two Countries: Unions, Closures and Growth in Britain and Norway,
Alex Bryson and Harald Dale-Olsen, from Centre for Economic Performance, LSE (2008)
Keywords: Unions, closure, employment growth, comparative, system-GMM

Union Decline in Britain,
David Blanchflower and Alex Bryson, from Centre for Economic Performance, LSE (2008)
Keywords: trade unions, employment growth, financial performance, industrialrelations

Private Sector Employment Growth, 1998-2004: A Panel Analysis of British Workplaces,
Alex Bryson and Satu Nurmi, from Centre for Economic Performance, LSE (2008)
Keywords: employment growth, workplace survival, workplace age, workplace size, humancapital, sunk costs

Worker Churning and Firms’ Wage Policies,
Pedro Martins, from Queen Mary, University of London, School of Business and Management, Centre for Globalisation Research (2008)
Keywords: Worker Turnover, Endogeneity, Personnel Economics, Efficiency Wages

Employment Outcomes in the Welfare State,
L. Rachel Ngai and Christopher Pissarides, from Centre for Economic Performance, LSE (2008)
Keywords: welfare state, employment, social services, tax and subsidy, three worlds of welfare

The Impact of Childhood Health on Adult Labor Market Outcomes,
James Smith, from Geary Institute, University College Dublin (2008)