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to employment, wages, prices and household well-being. The meta-analysis finds that most results on employment and wages … are non-significant. When significant, decreases in employment and wages are more likely to occur than increases with …
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We estimate the effects of labor market entry conditions on wages for male individuals first entering the Austrian … labor market between 1978 and 2000. We find a large negative effect of unfavorable entry conditions on starting wages as …
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firm size, wages and productivity are positively related. This paper constructs a unique monthly linked employer …-to-job flows reallocate workers from low productivity to high productivity firms and often this pattern is tested assuming that … employment size, wage or productivity show different responses of employment growth rates to business cycles. The relationship …
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This study seeks to determine the impact on female labor outcomes of the amendment to the Colombian labor law that extended maternity leave from 12 to 14 weeks (Law 1468 of July 2011). To identify this impact, labor market outcomes of two groups of women with different fertility rates are...
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impact that the enactment of various types of E-verify mandates may have on the employment and wages of these two populations … likelihood of native workers. Impacts on wages are positive for likely unauthorized women suggesting a large labor supply … reduction. For native-born workers, hourly wages also increase and provide some evidence of substitutability of unauthorized …
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In this paper, we argue that adjustments in non-wage compensation are empirically relevant and have important implications for understanding the effects of labor supply shocks. We examine the labor market impacts of internal migration in Brazil through a shift-share approach, which combines...
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to maintain their real wages by reducing labor demand still further. Furthermore, we argue inflationary pressures have …
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In den Industriestaaten stehen die weniger qualifizierten Arbeitskräfte derzeit unter einem erheblichen Anpassungsdruck. Die Nachfragestruktur auf dem Arbeitsmarkt hat sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten zuungunsten der formal Ungelernten verschoben, wobei als die Hauptursachen dieser Entwicklung...
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This paper quantifies the extent to which the U.S. manufacturing labor market is characterized by employer market power and how such market power has changed over time. We find that the vast majority of U.S. manufacturing plants operate in a monopsonistic environment and, at least since the...
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We study the long-run effects of initial labor market conditions on wages for a large sample of male individuals … starting wages. This initial effect turns out to be quite persistent and even though wages do catch up later on, large effects … aggregate level are key to explain wages' adjustment process in the longer run. …
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