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The Danish labor market : 2000-2022 : the Danish flexicurity model has proven its resilience to large shocks, with favorable overall labor market performance
Andersen, Torben M. - 2023
Denmark is often highlighted as a "flexicurity" country with lax employment protection legislation, generous unemployment insurance, and active labor market policies. This model has coped with the Great Recession and the Covid-19 pandemic, avoiding large increases in long-term and structural...
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Low-wage employment : are low-paid jobs stepping stones to higher paid jobs, do they become persistent, or do they lead to recurring unemployment?
Schnabel, Claus - 2016
Low-wage employment has become an important feature of the labor market and a controversial topic for debate in many countries. How to interpret the prominence of lowpaid jobs and whether they are beneficial to workers or society is currently an open question. The answer depends on whether...
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The labor market in the Netherlands, 2001-2016 : overall, employment and wages were accompanied by a rise in part-time work and a decline in job security
Hartog, Joop; Salverda, Wiemer - 2018
The Netherlands is an example of a highly institutionalized labor market that places considerable attention on equity concerns. The government and social partners (unions and industry associations) seek to adjust labor market arrangements to meet the challenges of increased international...
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Should firms allow workers to choose their own wage? : delegating the choice of wage setting to workers can lead to better outcomes for all involved parties
Charness, Gary - 2016
Economists typically predict that people are inherently selfish; however, experimental evidence suggests that this is often not the case. In particular, delegating a choice (such as a wage) to the performing party may imbue this party with a sense of responsibility, leading to improved outcomes...
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How do social networks affect labor markets? : job-referral networks can make labor markets more productive and efficient but may increase the importance of luck in job matches
Schmutte, Ian - 2016
Social networks, or “job-referral” networks, can help make labor markets become more efficient. Outside the firm, they help workers obtain employment after displacement and secure higher-paying jobs. They can also match highly-skilled workers to more productive employment. Inside the firm,...
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The Real Exchange Rate and Foreign Direct Investment in the United States : Relative Wealth vs. Relative Wage Effects
Klein, Michael W. - 2010
significantly affects U.S. inward foreign direct investment. We find no evidence that relative wages have a significant impact on …
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Wage Dispersion between and within U.S. Manufacturing Plants, 1963-1986
Davis, Stephen J. - 2010
This paper exploits a rich and largely untapped source of information on the wages and other characteristics of …
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Wage Effects of Unionization and Occupational Licensing Coverage in the United States
Gittleman, Maury - 2013
Recent estimates in standard models of wage determination for both unionization and occupational licensing have shown wage effects that are similar across the two institutions. These cross-sectional estimates use specialized data sets, with small sample sizes, for the period 2006 through 2008....
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The Causal Effect of Unemployment Duration on Wages : Evidence from Unemployment Insurance Extensions
Schmieder, Johannes F. - 2013
This paper provides quasi-experimental estimates of the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Using … standard job search theory, the paper derives and tests conditions on reemployment wages under which Unemployment Insurance (UI … paper shows that UI extensions at age thresholds reduced reemployment wages of job searchers in Germany. The UI extensions …
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International Trade and Labor Income Risk in the United States
Krishna, Pravin - 2009
This paper studies empirically the links between international trade and labor income risk faced by workers in the United States. We use longitudinal data on workers to estimate time-varying individual income risk at the industry level. We then combine our estimates of persistent labor income...
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