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Vacancy durations and entry wages: Evidence from linked vacancy-employer-employee data
Kettemann, Andreas; Mueller, Andreas I.; Zweimüller, Josef - 2018
establishment growth, vacancy filling and entry wages, we calibrate a model with directed search and ex-ante heterogeneous workers … response of vacancy filling to firm-level wages. We discuss the implications of this finding as well as potential resolutions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011993808
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A cross-country comparison of labor market frictions
Ridder, Geert; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2002
applied to aggregate duration data. It does not require wage data, it is invariant to the way in which wages are determined … separate analyses for the USA, the UK, Germany and the Netherlands. We quantify the monopsony power due to search frictions and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321081
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Angels or demons? Evidence on the impact of private equity firms on employment
Nathusius, Eva; Achleitner, Ann-Kristin - 2009
The impact of private equity firms on employment in their portfolio companies is a controversial topic widely discussed … focused on different aspects of employment and are based on a variety of methodologies as well as samples representing e … employment growth, financial and non-financial indicators of employment in a total of 49 studies. The analysis of similarities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305732
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Wage Dispersion Between and Within Plants: Sweden 1985-2000
Nordström Skans, Oskar; Edin, Per-Anders; Holmlund, Bertil - 2006
The paper describes the Swedish wage distribution and how it correlates with worker mobility and plant-specific factors. It is well known that wage inequality has increased in Sweden since the mid-1980s. However, little evidence has so far been available as to whether this development reflects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321573
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Wage dispersion between and within plants: Sweden 1985 - 2000
Nordström Skans, Oskar; Edin, Per-Anders; Holmlund, Bertil - 2006
The paper describes the Swedish wage distribution and how it correlates with worker mobility and plant-specific factors. It is well known that wage inequality has increased in Sweden since the mid-1980s. However, little evidence has so far been available as to whether this development reflects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317897
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The impact of state paid leave laws on firms and establishments: Evidence from the first three states
Butcher, Kristin F.; Civril, Deniz; Pekkala Kerr, Sari - 2024
in outcomes for establishments in treated and untreated states. We find that paid parental leave laws reduce employment … in an industry that were women, and find that there is no systematic evidence that firms reduce employment more in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014581765
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Wages of childhood immigrants in Sweden: Education, returns to education and overeducation
Katz, Katarina; Österberg, Torun - 2013
We analyse full-time monthly wages of employees with parents born in Sweden and of childhood immigrants who arrived … countries, the risk of overeducation is larger than it is for adult immigrants and the difference in adjusted wages between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321139
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The Swedish Youth Labor Market in Boom and Depression
Edin, Per-Anders; Forslund, Anders; Holmlund, Bertil - 1998
of labor market programs on youth employment. We find that the slump in the 1990s has been associated with dramatic … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … for labor by skill attributable to technological innovation. The employment crisis has been met by an unprecedented …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321785
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International Trade and Labor Market Integration of Immigrants
Lodefalk, Magnus; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Tang, Aili - 2020
, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We … find a positive, yet heterogeneous, effect of trade on immigrant employment but no effect on immigrant wages. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208875
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International Trade and Labor Market - Integration of Immigrants
Lodefalk, Magnus; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Tang, Aili - 2020
, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We … find a positive, yet heterogeneous, effect of trade on immigrant employment but no effect on immigrant wages. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012654461