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analysis indicates how the changes can segment the labour market into an expanding sector of restructured firms where wages are … rising, a contracting sector of traditional firms where wages are relatively stagnant, and an expanding pool of the …; the widening dispersion of wages within occupational, educational, and job tenure groups in the United Kingdom and the …
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This Paper presents new estimates of the impact of job tenure on wages using a new French matched worker-firm dataset … valid instrumental variable for identifying the impact of job tenure on wages. Our new IV estimate of the return to job … relatively high wage offers tend to change firms more rapidly: they tend to have relatively high wages and low job tenure …
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China is different from both other low-wage and OECD countries. Industry-level import competition and firm-level outsourcing … to China reduce firm employment growth and induce skill upgrading. In contrast, industry-level imports have no effect on … Belgian firm survival, while firm-level outsourcing of finished goods to China even increased firm's probability of survival …
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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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In contrast to the United States or the United Kingdom where union status is generally tied to the job, the typical unionized worker in Germany is a member of an industry union and there is no direct institutional link between union membership and the worker's wage. Using micro data from the...
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while lower-ranking executives see their wages fall. Third, higher competition is associated with a higher probability of …
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Before the transition governments had strong distributional objectives, which they pursued mainly by direct controls over state enterprise wage rates and hiring decisions, yielding a highly compressed wage distribution. During the reform they maintained similar controls over state enterprises,...
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dispersion of wages increase with competition using a large panel of United Kingdom workers with complete work histories. I …
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unionized workforce. We develop a simple efficiency wage model, with a tradeoff between higher wages for workers and more … variety of data sets, we examine the implications of the model for the relationship between the employment and wages of … unionization in an industry and region and a higher union wage differential are associated with fewer managers. (2) Managers' wages …
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We estimate the effect of imported machines on the wages of machine operators utilizing Hungarian linked employer … the worker. We find that workers exposed to imported machines earn about 8 percent higher wages than other machine …
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