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Sample Attrition in the Canadian Survey of Labor and Income Dynamics
Boudarbat, Brahim; Grenon, Lee - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper provides an analysis of the effects of attrition and non-response on employment and wages using the Canadian Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics. We consider a structural model composed of three freely correlated equations for non-attrition/response, employment and wages. The model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010633266
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Not So Standard Anymore? Employment Duality in Germany
Eichhorst, Werner; Tobsch, Verena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
on the changing patterns of labour market segmentation or 'dualization' of employment in Germany. While labour market … duality in Germany can partially be attributed to labour market reforms promoting, in particular, non-standard forms of … contributed to the expansion of overall labour market inclusion and job growth in Germany and that at least some forms of non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884164
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The Unexpected Appearance of a New German Model
Eichhorst, Werner - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
inequality. Germany is a case in point as it exhibits growing employment figures and growing shares of low pay and non … institutions, the pattern found in Germany shows sequences of de- and re-regulatory reforms of employment protection and increasing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011196413
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Has Atypical Work Become Typical in Germany?
Eichhorst, Werner; Tobsch, Verena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
on the changing patterns of labor market segmentation or 'dualization' of employment in Germany. While labor market … duality in Germany can partially be attributed to labor market reforms promoting in particular non-standard forms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011201759
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The Risk and Return of Human Capital Investments
Koerselman, Kristian; Uusitalo, Roope - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Investing in human capital increases lifetime income, but these investments may involve substantial risk. In this paper we use a Finnish panel spanning 22 years to predict the mean, the variance and the skew of the present value of lifetime income, and to calculate certainty equivalent lifetime...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960122
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Rent Sharing as a Driver of the Glass Ceiling Effect
Matano, Alessia; Naticchioni, Paolo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In this paper we show that rent sharing plays a role in explaining the glass ceiling effect. We make use of a unique employer-employee panel database for Italy from 1996 to 2003, which allows controlling for observed individual and firm heterogeneity and for collective bargaining. Moreover, by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721289
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Labor Income Dynamics and the Insurance from Taxes, Transfers, and the Family
Blundell, Richard; Graber, Michael; Mogstad, Magne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
What do labor income dynamics look like over the life-cycle? What is the relative importance of persistent shocks, transitory shocks and heterogeneous profiles? To what extent do taxes, transfers and the family attenuate these various factors in the evolution of life-cycle inequality? In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764592
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Post Schooling Human Capital Investments and the Life Cycle Variance of Earnings
Magnac, Thierry; Pistolesi, Nicolas; Roux, Sébastien - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We propose an original model of human capital investments after leaving school in which individuals differ in their initial human capital obtained at school, their rate of return, their costs of human capital investments and their terminal values of human capital at a fixed date in the future....
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Making Sense of Arab Labor Markets: The Enduring Legacy of Dualism
Assaad, Ragui - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
It is well-established that Arab labor markets share certain common characteristics, including an oversized public sector, high unemployment for educated youth, weak private sector dependent on government welfare for their survival, rapid growth in educational attainment, but much of it focused...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884150
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The US Labor Market in 2030: A Scenario Based on Current Trends in Supply and Demand
Edwards, Rebecca; Lange, Fabian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Three fundamental forces have shaped labor markets over the last 50 years: the secular increase in the returns to education, educational upgrading, and the integration of large numbers of women into the workforce. We modify the Katz and Murphy (1992) framework to predict the structure of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960128