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Sources of the Union Wage Gap: Results from High-Dimensional Fixed Effects Regression Models

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro; Vilares, Hugo - 2015

themselves as far as their wage compensation policies are concerned. A subsidiary result is that matching plays almost no role …

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An Analysis of Wage Differentials between Full- and Part-Time Workers in Spain

Ramos, Raul; Sanromá, Esteban; Simón, Hipólito - 2015

This research examines wage differences between part-time and full-time workers using microdata from the Spanish Structure of Earnings Survey. The main contribution of the paper is related to the analysis of differences along the wage distribution using econometric decomposition methods and...

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Field experimental evidence on gender discrimination in hiring: Biased as Heckman and Siegelman predicted?

Baert, Stijn - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 9 (2015) 2015-25, pp. 1-11

Correspondence studies are nowadays viewed as the most compelling avenue to test for hiring discrimination. However, these studies suffer from one fundamental methodological problem, as formulated by Heckman and Siegelman (The Urban Institute audit studies: Their methods and findings. In M. Fix,...

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The effect of temporary contracts on human capital accumulation in Chile

Carpio, Susana; Giuliodori, David; Rucci, Graciana; … - 2011

panel of workers with information from 2002, 2004, 2006, and 2009. Our results suggest that having a temporary contract in …

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Regional Unemployment and Productivity in Europe and the US

Basile, Roberto; Benedictis, Luca De - 2004

The existence and persistence of large spatial disparities in un-employment within national economies is a central issue in regional economics. Previous empirical analyses have largely disregarded the role of fundamentals. On the contrary in this paper we explore the link between labour...

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Does training increase outflows from unemployment: evidence from Latvian regions

Dmitrijeva, Jekaterina; Hazans, Mihails - 2004

matching process in this transition economy and to evaluate the impact of active labor market policy programs on outflows from … unemployment. Results confirm that the hiring process is driven by stock-flow matching rather than by traditional matching function … of such “correct” specification of the matching process, the policy evaluation is performed. We find positive and very …

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Does Informal Learning at Work Differ between Temporary and Permanent Workers? Evidence from 20 OECD Countries

Ferreira Sequeda, Maria; de Grip, Andries; Van der … - 2015

Several studies have shown that employees with temporary contracts have lower training participation than those with permanent contracts. There is, however, no empirical literature on the difference in informal learning on the job between permanent and temporary workers. In this paper, we...

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Pacts for Employment and Competitiveness as a Role Model? Their Effects on Firm Performance

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Evers, Katalin; … - 2015

Pacts for employment and competitiveness are an integral component of the ongoing process of decentralization of collective bargaining in Germany, a phenomenon that has been hailed as key to that nation's economic resurgence. Yet little is known about the effects of pacts on firm performance....

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Precarious and less well paid? Wage differences between permanent and fixed-term contracts across the EU

da Silva, António Dias; Turrini, Alessandro - 2015

We analyse wage differences between permanent and fixed-term contracts across the EU using data from the European Structure of Earnings Survey. We find that, after controlling for individual and job characteristics, workers on permanent contracts earn on average about 15% more than workers on...

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The institutional and economic limits to bargaining decentralization in Italy

D'Amuri, Francesco; Giorgiantonio, Cristina - 2015

Italy is not immune from the long term process towards greater bargaining decentralization under way in Western Europe. The article surveys the main actions, either defined by social partners or by government intervention, which have attempted to encourage this process in recent years, without...

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