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Wage Differentials and Mobility in the Urban Labor Market: A Panel Data Analysis for Mexico
Gong, Xiaodong; van Soest, Arthur - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
We analyze wage differentials mobility between the formal and informal sector in urban Mexico, using panel data on five … quarters drawn from Mexico’s Urban Employment Survey. We develop a dynamic random effects panel data model. It consists of two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703293
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Labour Turnover and the Spatial Distribution of Unemployment: A Panel Data Analysis Using Employment Registry Data
Pastore, Francesco; Tyrowicz, Joanna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper aims to study whether the local variation in unemployment rates is related to labour turnover and what is the sign of such relationship. In addition, the paper aims to assess the relative impact of inflow and outflow from unemployment on the dynamics of the local unemployment rate....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010599742
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The Employment and Earnings of Migrants in Great Britain
Andrews, Martyn; Clark, Ken; Whittaker, William - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Using nationally representative, longitudinal data from the first 14 waves of the British Household Panel Survey we examine the labour market returns to inter-regional migration in Great Britain. Controlling for endogeneity, heterogeneity and self-selection, we find substantial long-run wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822767
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Explaining the Growth of Part-Time Employment: Factors of Supply and Demand
Euwals, Rob; Hogerbrugge, Maurice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Using the Dutch Labour Force Survey 1991-2001, the authors investigate the incidence of part-time employment in the country with the highest part-time employment rate of the OECD countries. Women fulfil most part-time jobs, but nevertheless a considerable fraction of men works part-time as well....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761645
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Skill-Biased Technical Change in U.S. Manufacturing: A General Index Approach
Baltagi, Badi H.; Rich, Daniel P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
This article applies recent advances in productivity and efficiency measurement to the evaluation of skillbiased technical change. Using the general index approach we are able to establish an explicit and unconstrained time path for nonneutral technical change between production and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761848
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Entrepreneurial Ventures and Wage Differentials Between Germans and Immigrants
Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial undertaking of immigrants and natives in Germany. We first study factors that affect the sorting of individuals into self-employment and then we investigate whether self-employment has a differential effect on the wages of individual workers and can lead...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763736
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The Making of Entrepreneurs in Germany: Are Native Men and Immigrants Alike?
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper uses a state of the art three-stage technique to identify the characteristics of the self-employed immigrant and native men in Germany and to understand their underlying drive into self-employment. Employing data from the German Socioeconomic Panel 2000 release we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763869
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Can Insider Power Affect Employment?
Díaz-Vázquez, Pilar; Snower, Dennis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional answer in the theoretical literature is that insider power has no influence on employment, provided that the newly hired employees (entrants) receive their reservation wages....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566334
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What Makes an Entrepreneur and Does It Pay? Native Men, Turks, and Other Migrants in Germany
Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan; Zimmermann, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong entrepreneurial tradition, and the self-employed Turks in Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761937
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Mobility in the Urban Labor Market: A Panel Data Analysis for Mexico
Gong, Xiaodong; van Soest, Arthur; Villagomez, Elizabeth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
We analyze mobility in urban Mexico between three labor market states: working in the formal sector, working in the … market state of each individual during each time period. The data is drawn from Mexico ’s Urban Employment Survey, a … quarterly household survey for urban Mexico. Two separate five-wave panels are used: the first covering a period of rapid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761643