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Estimating the Wage Elasticity of Labour Supply to a Firm: What evidence is there for Monopsony?
Booth, Alison L; Katic, Pamela - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
In this paper we estimate the elasticity of the labour supply to a firm, using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. Estimation of this elasticity is of particular interest not only in its own right but also because of its relevance to the debate about...
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Occupational Mismatch and Moonlighting Among Spanish Physicians: Do Couples Matter?
Dolado, Juan J.; Felgueroso, Florentino - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
There are relevant gender differences in the labour-market status of health sciences graduates in Spain: (i) female physicians have lower participation rates than male physicians plus they are subject to higher occupational mismatch, and (ii) moonlighting is more frequent among male physicians....
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China's Labour Market in Transition : Job Creation, Migration and Regulation
Herd, Richard - 2010
Over the past decade, the share of jobs not controlled by the state has increased considerably, whilst employment in agriculture has declined, against the backdrop of ongoing urbanisation. Over 200 million people have been drawn into urban areas through official or unofficial migration, despite...
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Atypische Beschaeftigungsverhaeltnisse – Einleitung zum Schwerpunktheft (Atypical employment - Introduction)
Keller, Berndt; Nienhueser, Werner - In: Industrielle Beziehungen - Zeitschrift fuer Arbeit, … 21 (2014) 1, pp. 5-14
Zu den atypischen Beschaeftigungsverhaeltnissen zaehlen wir im Folgenden (im Sinne einer Nominaldefinition) Teilzeit, geringfuegige Beschaeftigung/Mini- und Midijobs, befristete Beschaeftigung, Leiharbeit, Werkvertraege sowie Solo-Selbststaendigkeit. Die dieses Schwerpunktheftes spiegeln sowohl...
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China's Labour Market in Transition: Job Creation, Migration and Regulation
Herd, Richard; Koen, Vincent; Reutersward, Anders - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010
Over the past decade, the share of jobs not controlled by the state has increased considerably, whilst employment in agriculture has declined, against the backdrop of ongoing urbanisation. Over 200 million people have been drawn into urban areas through official or unofficial migration, despite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008480477
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Improving well-being in New Zealand through migration
Carey, David - 2019
New Zealand’s immigration system aims to enhance well-being by promoting economic development, reuniting families and meeting humanitarian objectives. Immigration is high and residence admissions are focused on the high skilled to enhance economic outcomes. Empirical evidence suggests that...
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Discrimination in the Swiss Labour Market: an Empirical Analysis
Golder, Stefan M.; Straubhaar, Thomas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
-economic endowments or to discrimination. We use the well-known econometric technique, developed by Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973), to … determine the extent of discrimination. As data on earnings are available only for employed, we adopt a two-stage Heckman … Survey (SLFS). The earnings difference decomposition between natives and immigrants reveals that the discrimination effect …
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Chapter 11. High-Skilled Immigration in a Globalized Labor Market
McDonald, James Ted; Worswick, Christopher - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 537-583). 2015
The economics literature on the international migration of skilled workers is reviewed and recent policy trends are evaluated. The theoretical implications of skilled migration are discussed within the context of the benefits to the skilled immigrant, the sending country, and the receiving...
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Union Low-pay-worker Representation and the sans-papiers Strikes in France
Artus, Ingrid - In: International Journal of Action Research 7 (2011) 1, pp. 49-79
) the situation in Germany, it claims a cultural gap between traditional unions and employees in the expanding precarious …
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Anonymous job applications in Europe
Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 1 (2012), pp. 1-20
Numerous empirical studies find a substantial extent of discrimination in hiring decisions. Anonymous job applications … have gained attention and popularity to identify and combat this form of discrimination. To test whether their intended … recently conducted. Also in Germany, a large field experiment has examined the practicability and potentials of this approach …
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