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which log-wages are explained by two endogenous variables: the student's degree and the student's time to degree, not simply … by years of education. Log-wages are regressed on a measure of education, which is a position on a scale of certificates … parameters. We find a robust, significant and negative impact of the delay variable on wages, averaged over the first five years …
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This paper investigates the effects of firm entry deregulation. We exploit a recent reform that simplified business entry in Portugal as a quasi-natural experiment. We use cross-municipality-year variation in the implementation of the reform for identification. Using matched employer-employee...
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on some characteristics observed by the student, under the combined risks affecting future wages and schooling duration …
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insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. This paper estimates a positive UI wage effect exploiting an age-based regression … balance between two offsetting forces: UI causes agents to seek higher-wage jobs, but also reduces wages by lengthening … both in our sample and across studies, reconciling disparate wage-effect estimates. Empirically, UI raises wages by …
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In a corporatist country like the Netherlands, wages should not be distinguished by union membership status, but by …
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Following monetary union with west Germany in June 1990 the median real monthly wage of prime age east German workers rose by 83% in six years. I use the German Socio-Economic Panel data to investigate the determinants of this wage growth and some of its implications. For the 1990-1991 period I...
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The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be … heterogeneous within skill groups. We test this hypothesis by combining micro-level information on wages and demographic and …
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consistent with the theory that trade-union wage rises for the less-skilled reduced employment. The most important difference is …
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and trends in wellbeing. If the rise in wages that followed the Black Death enticed female servants to delay marriage, it …
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We study how the city system is affected by the possibility for the members of the same cultural diaspora to interact across different cities. In so doing, we propose a simple two-city model with two mobile cultural groups. A localized externality fosters the productivity of individuals when...
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