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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 … earnings dynamics distinguishing permanent from transitory earnings, and exploit variation of tenure and instability over time … temporary contracts (short-tenure contracts). Our results indicate that each year of tenure on the job reduces earnings …
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Multitasking and Wages
Görlich, Dennis; Snower, Dennis - CESifo - 2013
This paper sheds light on how changes in the organization of work can help to understand increasing wage inequality. We present a theoretical model in which workers with a wider span of competence (higher level of multitasking) earn a wage premium. Since abilities and opportunities to expand the...
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Friday the 13th: The Empirics of Bad Luck
Fidrmuc, Jan; Tena, J. D. - CESifo - 2014
We use the UK Labor Force survey to investigate whether the socio-economic outcomes of people born on the 13th day of the month, and of those born on Friday the 13th, differ from the outcomes of people born on more auspicious days. In many European countries, including the UK, such days are...
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Analysis of Labor Tax Progression under Heterogeneous Domestic Labor Markets and Flexible Outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki - CESifo - 2010
What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep the relative tax burden per low-skilled and high-skilled workers constant in the case of heterogeneous domestic labor markets, i.e. imperfect competition in low-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled...
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National Minimum Wage and Employment of Young Workers in the UK
Fidrmuc, Jan; Tena, J. D. - CESifo - 2013
We analyze the impact of the UK national minimum wage (NMW) on the employment of young workers. The previous literature found little evidence of an adverse impact of the NMW on the UK labor market. We focus on the age-related increases in the NMW at 18 and 22 years of age. Using regression...
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Outsourcing and Labor Taxation in Dual Labor Markets
Koskela, Erkki; Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2008
We evaluate the effects of international outsourcing and labor taxation on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment in dual labor markets. Outsourcing promotes wage dispersion between the high-skilled and low-skilled workers. Higher domestic low-skilled wage tax, higher payroll tax and lower...
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Flexible Outsourcing and the Impacts of Labour Taxation in European Welfare States
Koskela, Erkki; Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2008
In European Welfare States, low-skilled workers are typically unionized, while the wage formation of high-skilled workers is more competitive. To focus on this aspect, we analyze how flexible international outsourcing and labour taxation affect wage formation, employment and welfare in dual...
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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 institutional determinants, especially labor-market...
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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
Building on a new data set which is combined from national micro-data bases, we highlight differences in the structure of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all immigrants to the OECD world. Looking at immigrants by source...
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Impacts of Labor Taxation with Perfectly and Imperfectly Competitive Domestic Labor Markets under Flexible Outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki - CESifo - 2009
What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep the relative tax burden per low-skilled and high-skilled workers constant in the case of heterogenous domestic labor markets, i.e. imperfect competition in low-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583649