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Signaling in the Labor Market: New Evidence on Layoffs and Plant Closings

Rodriguez-Planas, Nuria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

employer and may choose to remain unemployed rather than to accept a low-wage job. In this case, unemployment can serve as a … signal of productivity, and duration of unemployment may be positively related to post-laid-off wages even among workers who … are not recalled. In contrast, because workers whose plant closed cannot be recalled, longer unemployment for them should …

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Paying More than Necessary? The Wage Cushion in Germany

Jung, Sven; Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Using a representative establishment data set for Germany, we show that more than 40 percent of plants covered by … restrictions imposed by the rather centralized system of collective bargaining in Germany, plants which make use of single …

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Does the Sector Experience Affect the Pay Gap for Temporary Agency Workers?

Jahn, Elke J.; Pozzoli, Dario - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

temp wage gap and post-temp earnings in Germany. Using a two-stage selection-corrected method in a panel data framework, we …

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The Effect of Sexual Activity on Wages

Drydakis, Nick - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The purpose of this study is to estimate whether sexual activity is associated with wages, and also to estimate potential interactions between individuals' characteristics, wages and sexual activity. The central hypothesis behind this research is that sexual activity, like health indicators and...

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The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Disruptions to Education, and the Returns to Schooling in Urban China

Giles, John T.; Park, Albert; Wang, Meiyan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This paper provides new evidence on educational disruptions caused by the Cultural Revolution and identifies the returns to schooling in urban China by exploiting individual-level variation in the effects of city-wide disruptions to education. The return to college is estimated at 49.8% using a...

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Mobility across Firms and Occupations among Graduates from Apprenticeship

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Licklederer, Stefanie; Zwiener, Hanna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

the wage effects of mobility among graduates from apprenticeship in Germany. Our instrumental variables approach exploits …

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Migraine Headache and Labor Market Outcomes

Rees, Daniel I.; Sabia, Joseph J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

While migraine headache can be physically debilitating, no study has attempted to estimate its effects on labor market outcomes. Using data drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we estimate the effect of migraine headache on labor force participation, hours worked, and...

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Class Size and Class Heterogeneity

De Giorgi, Giacomo; Pellizzari, Michele; Woolston, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We study how class size and composition affect the academic and labor market performances of college students, two crucial policy questions given the secular increase in college enrollment. We rely on the random assignment of students to teaching classes. Our results suggest that a one standard...

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Labor Market Transparency

Wadensjö, Eskil - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The labor market differs from other markets in many respects. Most important is that those who supply labor also have to deliver it in person. It means firstly that the work environment and organization of work are important for those who deliver labor, since they are in the work place....

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Classic Monopsony or New Monopsony? Searching for Evidence in Nursing Labor Markets

Hirsch, Barry T.; Schumacher, Edward J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

The market for hospital registered nurses (RNs) is often offered as an example of “classic” monopsony, while a “new” monopsony literature emphasizes firm labor supply being upwardsloping for reasons other than market structure. Using data from several sources, we explore the relationship...

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