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microeconomic data for more than 100,000 European individuals, the results show that welfare regimes make a difference for wages and … regional interpersonal income and educational inequality, also influence wages and education in different ways across welfare …
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of labor market outcomes such as employment, unemployment, informality, and wages. Using national-level data on labor …
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This paper studies the effect of mandated employer-provided child care on the wages of women hired in large firms in … with 20 or more female workers. The results indicate that the monthly starting wages of the infra-marginal woman hired in a …
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who first entered on a student/trainee visa or a temporary work visa have a large advantage over natives in wages …
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the wages of native-born workers in the UK. This is potentially puzzling since there is evidence that changes in the … supply of educated natives have significant effects on their wages. Using a pooled time series of British crosssectional … micro data on male wages and employment from the mid-1970s to the mid-2000s, this paper offers a resolution to this puzzle …
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The paper compares the experience with shock therapies in East Germany, Poland and the CSFR. After an analysis of the individual starting conditions and economic performance since the inception of comprehensive reform programmes it focuses on the specific elements of the East German reform...
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In this paper we examine the persistent effects of past wages of displaced workers on the probability of finding a new … job and on wages in the new job. We use a new database looking at the post-displacement experience of a sample of Belgian … workers who have lost their jobs because of a sizeable reduction in the work-force of their firm. We decompose past wages into …
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We analyse the impact of unemployment benefits and minimum wages using an equilibrium search model, which allows for … estimation method uses readily available aggregate data on marginal distributions of unemployment durations as well as wages and …
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arrival, wages of highly skilled immigrants grow at 8.13% a year. Rising prices of skills, occupational transitions …, accumulated experience in Israel, economy-wide rise in wages and repeated sampling account for 4.3, 3.1, 1.6, 1.2 and 2% each …. There is convergence to natives in the occupational distribution, but not in wages. In the long run, the return for …
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This paper estimates the effects of immigration on wages of native workers at the national U.S. level. Following Borjas … evaluate the competition as well as cross-skill complementary effects of immigrants on wages. We also emphasize the importance … degree (-0.7%) and on average wages (-0.4%) while it had small positive effects on nativeworkers with no high school degree …
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