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Earnings Instability and Tenure
Cappellari, Lorenzo; Leonardi, Marco - CESifo - 2013
We study the effect of tenure on earnings instability in Italy using two alternative estimation strategies. First we use a descriptive measure of earnings instability and fixed effects regressions. Second, we develop a formal model of earnings dynamics distinguishing permanent from transitory...
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Returns to Tenure or Seniority?
Buhai, Sebastian; Portela, Miguel; Teulings, Coenraad N.; … - CESifo - 2008
This study documents two empirical regularities, using data for Denmark and Portugal. First, workers who are hired last, are the first to leave the firm (Last In, First Out; LIFO). Second, workers’ wages rise with seniority (= a worker’s tenure relative to the tenure of her colleagues). We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181342
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Employee Referral, Social Proximity and Worker Discipline: Theory and Evidence from India
Dhillon, Amrita; Iversen, Vegard; Torsvik, Gaute - CESifo - 2013
We study an important mechanism underlying employee referrals into informal low skilled jobs in developing countries. Employers can exploit social preferences between employee referees and potential workers to improve discipline. The profitability of using referrals increases with referee stakes...
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CEO Compensation
Frydman, Carola; Jenter, Dirk - CESifo - 2010
This paper surveys the recent literature on CEO compensation. The rapid rise in CEO pay over the past 30 years has sparked an intense debate about the nature of the pay-setting process. Many view the high level of CEO compensation as the result of powerful managers setting their own pay. Others...
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Applications and Interviews - A Structural Analysis of Two-Sided Simultaneous Search
Wolthoff, Ronald P. - CESifo - 2011
A large part of the literature on frictional matching in the labor market assumes bilateral meetings between workers and firms. This ignores the frictions that arise when workers and firms meet in a multilateral way and cannot coordinate their application and hiring decisions. I analyze the...
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Beauty Premium and Marriage Premium in Search Equilibrium: Theory and Empirical Test
Bonilla, Roberto; Kiraly, Francis; Wildman, John - CESifo - 2015
We propose a theoretical explanation for the so-called “beauty premium”. Our explanation is based entirely on search frictions and the fact that physical appearance plays an important role in attracting a marriage partner. We analyse the interaction between frictional labour and marriage...
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How do Migrants Choose their Destination Country? An Analysis of Institutional Determinants
Geis, Wido; Uebelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - CESifo - 2008
For a long time, migration has been subject to intensive economic research. Nevertheless, empirical evidence regarding … the determinants of migration still appears to be incomplete. In this paper, we analyze the effects of socio-economic and … and unemployment benefits have positive effects on migration. Also good education and health systems tend to attract …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094404
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Information Asymmetry, Education Signals and the Case of Ethnic and Native Germans
Hornig, Stephan O.; Rottmann, Horst; Wapler, Rüdiger - CESifo - 2009
This paper analyses the effects of education signals for Ethnic Germans and Germans without a migration background …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005034643
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Why go to France or Germany, if you could as well go to the UK or the US? Selective Features of Immigration to four major OECD Countries
Geis, Wido; Uebelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - CESifo - 2008
different destination countries. Focusing on migration between the four countries in our data set, we find that migration within …
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Work and Wage Dynamics around Childbirth
Ejrnæs, Mette; Kunze, Astrid - CESifo - 2012
This study investigates how the first childbirth affects the wage processes of highly attached women. We estimate a flexible fixed effects wage regression model extended with post-birth fixed effects by the control function approach. Register data on West Germany are used and we exploit the...
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