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This Paper presents strong evidence for the concavity of wages in job and worker characteristics by adding second order terms to a Mincerian earnings function for six OECD countries. Under a standard normality assumption, this concavity cannot be attributed to unobserved components in those...
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moving from employment to non-employment in a segmented labour market that is defined by various combinations of schooling … is generally positively associated with the probability of natives to move from employment in that segment to non-employment … natives were not facing higher probability to exit employment due to immigrants’ presence in a certain occupation. Allowing …
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’ wages and employment. The transition of immigrants into a new labour market is a gradual process: the dynamics of this …, we do not find any effect of immigration on employment, neither in the short nor in the long run. …
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This paper shows that we can normalize job and worker characteristics such that without frictions there exists a linear relationship between wages on the one hand and worker and job type indices on the other. However, for five European countries and the US we find strong evidence for a...
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, however, that HPWOs affect their employment structure. …
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This Paper studies the impact of wage growth on the evolution of employment in an intertemporal general … is the common growth rate of consumption, demand, and output. In these steady-state equilibria employment contracts at a … equality of wage growth and productivity growth is a condition for constant employment. …
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firm performance. Using firm level data on employment, capita, and output, census data on informal employment at the city …
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We study the evolution of sectoral employment and labour cost in 11 European countries over the last two decades. Our … countries and industries in employment growth, whereas country-specific effects are more important in the analysis of labour … employment. We pay special attention to Spain, a country that has experienced a high persistent unemployment rate, and show that …
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This study examines the extent, duration and timing of employment breaks amongst a large representative sample of …, unique in Israel, which was derived from a linkage of 1995 Population Census data with monthly employment records of the …, particularly those relating to the considerable amount of intermittent employment found amongst Israeli male workers. Also, women …
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dynamics of employment and unemployment in order to identify key issues for the sources of the malfunctioning of these labour … passive labour market policies, and the structure of employment and output. …
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