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representative sample of French establishments, we first show that family firms pay on average lower wages to their workers. We find … between the family/non-family gaps in wages and job security. …
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This paper considers the role mergers and acquisitions have on employment. First, it considers the importance of … activity in a similar manner, employment authorities may be able to anticipate the regions in which takeovers are more likely …
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associated with higher job mobility. At firm level, there seems to be a trade-off between wages and job stability: High …-wage firms tend to be low-tenure firms, which suggests that low job stability may be compensated by higher wages. High …
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costs influence insider wages and outsiders’ opportunities and how these costs affect employment and unemployment. We also … address the more complex, and open, question of how employment and unemployment move through time, in response to labor market …
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insecurity and wages significantly negative level effects are found for Germany with some evidence for those in the UK. There is …This paper looks at the wage effects of perceived and objective insecurity in Germany and the UK using the GSOEP and … rates and the share of temporary contracts is established. The bargaining hypothesis that job security and wages are …
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economic analysis. I check this assertion by analyzing wages and status within the firm, with status measured as the worker …
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satisfaction data. We show that, in some sectors, workers enjoy both higher wages and higher job satisfaction. We argue that this …. However, they do suggest that part-time employment is involuntary to a far greater extent in France than in Great Britain. …
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We analyse data from personnel records of a large firm producing energy and telecommunication and test for the effect of deviations between required and attained education of workers. Required education is measured as hiring standards set by the firm. We find the usual effects of over- and...
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Using a representative establishment dataset, this paper is the first to analyze the incidence of wage posting and wage bargaining in the matching process from the employer's side. We show that both modes of wage determination coexist in the German labor market, with about two-thirds of hirings...
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wages to prevent them to quit. Similarly, workers with a high layoff probability give up some of their wage to prevent them … may be related to downward wage rigidity. While it is easy to renegotiate higher wages to prevent quits, it is much more … difficult to renegotiate lower wages to prevent layoffs even if that would overall be beneficial to the workers involved. …
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