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Can Germany’s economy stage an unexpected recovery?Steffen MüllerThe Economist, January 30, 2025
We study an alleged scheme involving more than fifty tech companies’ “no-poach” agreements. These are illegal agreements to suppress labor market competition by ceasing to recruit one an- other’s workers. We study entry into these agreements and their effects on workers.
We use comprehensive micro data in the French manufacturing sector between 1995 and 2017 to document the effects of a fall in the cost of investments in modern manufacturing capital, including modern automation technologies, on employment, wages, sales, prices, and business stealing.
This paper develops a dynamic evaluation approach in discrete time to estimate the impact of training programs for the unemployed on employment transitions.
This paper examines the links between the internationalization mode of firms and market imperfections in product and labor markets.
This paper investigates the consequences of technological change in the presence of non-competitive labor markets. We propose a model of technological progress where firms invest in innovation in the hope of developing new technologies.
Using a broad set of national industry trade shocks, I employ a novel approach to estimate agglomeration effects by exploiting within industry variation in indirect exposure to the other local industries’ (national) trade shocks across local labor markets.
