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The ambiguous effect of minimum wages on workers and total hours

Strobl, Eric ; Walsh, Frank (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2007-08)

We model a standard competitive labour market where firms choose combinations of workers and hours per worker to produce output. If one assumes that the scale of production has no impact on hours per worker, then the ...
Changes in the gender wage gap and the returns to firm specific human capital

Walsh, Frank ; Strobl, Eric (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1999-03)

If employers believe females are more likely to separate from a job than males, efficient cost sharing of on-the-job training implies that females will have higher returns to tenure. Becker and Lindsay (1994) argue that ...
Creating jobs through public subsidies : an empirical analysis

Girmaa, Sourafel ; Görg, Holger ; Strobl, Eric ; Walsh, Frank (Elsevier Science, 2008)

This paper analyses the impact of government grants on labour demand using plant level data for manufacturing industry in Ireland. Our data consists of a large sample of plants and their complete grant history. We provide ...
Dealing with monopsony power : employment subsidies vs. minimum wages

Walsh, Frank ; Strobl, Eric (Elsevier Science, 2007)

We show in a monopsony model that accounting for changes in hours a minimum wage has ambiguous effects on employment and welfare. When all workers have the same preference ordering over leisure and consumption employment ...
An equilibrium search model of the informal sector

Badaoui, Eliane ; Strobl, Eric ; Walsh, Frank (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2006-12)

We use an equilibrium search framework to model a formal- informal sector labour market where the informal sector arises endogenously. In our model large firms will be in the formal sector and pay a wage premium, while ...
Estimating the shirking model with variable effort

Walsh, Frank ; Strobl, Eric (Elsevier Science, 2007)

We show in a theoretical efficiency wage model where firms differ in monitoring intensity that the impact of monitoring intensity on wages is ambiguous, a result that mirrors evidence from the empirical literature. We argue ...
Foreign direct investment, agglomerations and demonstration effects : an empirical investigation

Barry, Frank ; Görg, Holger ; Strobl, Eric (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2001-03)

Many previous studies have shown that the localisation of firms can be an important factor in attracting new foreign direct investment into a host country. What has been missing in this literature thus far, however, is ...
The formal sector wage premium and firm size for self-employed workers

Bargain, Olivier ; Badaoui, Eliane ; Kwenda, Prudence ; Strobl, Eric ; Walsh, Frank (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2012-03)

We develop a model where workers may enter self-employment or search for jobs as employees and where there is heterogeneity across workers’ managerial ability. Workers with higher skills will manage larger firms while ...
The impact of discriminatory legislation on Irish female unemployment flows

Harrison, Michael J. ; Strobl, Eric ; Walsh, Patrick P. (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Economics, 1995)

Ireland provides us with a unique case-study of the effects of discrimination in the labour market. Since the ninteen-sixties and until the late nineteen-eighties, gradual reforms of explicit discrimination against females ...
The impact of social security reforms on female unemployment compensation claimants in Ireland

Harrison, Michael J. ; Strobl, Eric ; Walsh, Patrick P. (Springer Netherlands, 1998-11)

As a result of Ireland’s accession to the EU, a series of social security reforms establishing equality of treatment of females and males with regard to entitlement to and rate and duration of receipt of unemployment ...
Is there an informal employment wage penalty? Evidence from South Africa

Walsh, Frank ; Badaoui, Eliane ; Strobl, Eric (University of Chicago Press, 2008-04)

We estimate the wage penalty associated with working in the South African informal sector. To this end we use a rich data set on non-self employed males that allows one to accurately distinguish workers employed in the ...
Male Long Term Unemployment and Structural Changes in Ireland

Strobl, Eric ; Walsh, Patrick P. (Ashgate, 1998)
The minimum wage and hours per worker

Strobl, Eric ; Walsh, Frank (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-10)

In a competitive model we ease the assumption that efficiency units of labour are the product of hours and workers. We show that a minimum wage may either increase or decrease hours per worker and the change will have ...
Minimum wages and compliance : the case of Trinidad and Tobago

Strobl, Eric ; Walsh, Frank (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2001-06)
Minimum Wages and compliance : the case of Trinidad and Tobago

Walsh, Frank ; Strobl, Eric (University of Chicago Press, 2003-01)

Explores compliance to the national minimum wage in Trinidad and Tobago. Potential costs associated with the national minimum wage; Actual incidence of compliance in terms of employment and wage distribution; Nature of ...
Multinational companies, backward linkages and labour demand elasticities

Walsh, Frank ; Görg, Holger ; Henry, Michael ; Strobl, Eric (University College Dublin; School of Economics, 2006-12)

This paper investigates the link between nationality of ownership and wage elasticities of labour demand at the level of the plant. In particular, we examine whether labour demand in multinationals becomes less elastic ...
Multinational companies, backward linkages and labour demand elasticities

Görg, Holger ; Henry, Michael ; Strobl, Eric ; Walsh, Frank (Blackwell, 2009-02)

This paper investigates the link between nationality of ownership and wage elasticities of labour demand at the level of the plant. In particular, we examine whether labour demand in multinationals becomes less elastic ...
Recent trends in trade union membership in Ireland

Walsh, Frank ; Strobl, Eric (Irish Economic Association, 2008-04)

Using micro data from the Quarterly National Household Survey we look at trends in Irish union membership from 2001-2006. There was a steep decline in union density. Decomposition analysis suggests that most of the decline ...
Structural change and long-term unemployment in Ireland

Strobl, Eric ; Walsh, Patrick P. (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Economics, 1996)

In this paper we investigate the build-up in male long-term unemployment by allowing for heterogeneity both in the unemployment inflow and conditional survival rates. We construct semi-annual series of the male flows into ...
Why do foreign-owned firms pay more? The role of on-the-job training

Walsh, Frank ; Görg, Holger ; Strobl, Eric (Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2007)

While foreign-owned firms have consistently been found to pay higher wages than domestic firms to what appear to be equally productive workers, the causes of this remain unresolved. In a two-period bargaining framework we ...