Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/33787 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 2621
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
According to the compensation theory, market forces should assure a complete compensation of the initial labour-saving impact of process innovations. In this paper a critique of this approach is proposed through a detailed survey of the theoretical and empirical literature on the subject. The general conclusion is that - although compensation is always working - the complete counter-balancing of dismissed workers cannot be assumed ex-ante.
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Working Paper

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