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analyses of a uniform minimum wage. The model with worker and firm heterogeneity does not restrict the sign of employment … opportunity cost of employment. …
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We present a new and simple empirical methodology to identify relative wage rigidity dynamics. The methodology is applied to data from the Polish Labour Force Survey for the period 1994 to 1998. We estimate ceteris paribus changes in relative wage and unemployment differentials for various...
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disciplines. The sec-ond part summarises parts of the epidemiological literature on health effects and the eco-nomic literature on …
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unemployment wages. A high wage replacement rate in the low wage sector seem to considerably elongate the duration of unemployment … and it is associated with higher post unemployment wages. …
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for the dramatic decline in employment and the unprecedented increase in unemployment in the east German economy. …
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This paper combines two strains of the literature on the employment effects of deferred compensation. The first strain … separates seniority and job matching wage effects on the basis of individual data, but cannot look at employment consequences …. The second strain explains the employment structure on the basis of establishment data, but cannot properly calculate …
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stability of educational wage premia was justified by market forces. However, relative wages did not respond to negative net …
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This paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labor markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make suggestions for immigration policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an...
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with comparable attributes. In the conventional neoclassical point of view, wages are determined by the marginal product of … the workers. Accordingly, increases in union minimum wages result in a decline of residual wage dispersion and higher …
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