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. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less … adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test our main hypothesis that any relative labor-market advantage of … vocational education decreases with age, we employ a difference-in-differences approach that compares employment rates across …
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, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …
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provision of labour market relevant information by former coworkers affects the employment probabilities and, if hired, the … wages of male workers who have previously become unemployed as the result of an establishment closure. To identify the … results suggest a strong positive effect of a higher employment rate in a worker’s network of former coworkers on his re-employment …
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This paper estimates the causal effect of the wage on the recruitment rate at the establishment level. During the 1990s, the wage setting for certified teachers in Norway was completely centralized, with a wage premium of about 10 percent at schools with severe recruitment problems in the past...
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identification. On the return to work after the birth, mothers’ wages drop by 3 to 5.7 per cent per year of leave. We find negative …
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Rent-sharing between firm owners and workers is a robust empirical finding. If workers bargain with firms, information on the actual surplus is essential. When the firm can use profit shifting to create private information on the surplus, it can thereby reduce its wage bill. We study how rent...
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development of wages and employment across skill groups, there is considerable disagreement to explain these trends, in particular …
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The paper scrutinizes the role of wages and capital flows for competitiveness in the new EU member states in the …
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always reduces employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase … knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a “Solovian zone“ where wages increase with … their bliss point can only be made better-off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than …
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altruistic managers may offer lower wages and nevertheless build up better social-exchange relationships with their employees …
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