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This study explores the potential role of adverse working conditions at the workplace in the determination of on-the-job search in the Finnish labour market. The results reveal that workers currently facing adverse working conditions have greater intentions to switch jobs and they are also more...
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Moreover, an increase in the degree of discrimination by males results in gains to them in terms of higher wages and lower … unemployment but results in losses to females in terms of lower wages and higher unemployment. The benefit to males provides an …
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The purpose of this paper is to examine inter-ethnic differences in the returns to education for the three main ethnic groups in the Metropolitan Region of Salvador (MRS), Bahia state, in Northeastern Brazil. Our results suggest that sheepskin effects take the traditional form of an additional...
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to an increase in the agent's employment probability and expected wages, in the sense of first order stochastic dominance … show that employment is positively correlated across time and agents, and the same is true for wages. Moreover … status or a smaller network, then that group's drop-out rate will be higher and their employment prospects and wages will be …
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This paper engages in a novel comparison of differences in the perceived quality of high and low-paid jobs across six European labour markets. Utilizing data from six waves (1996-2001) of the European Community Household Panel (ECHP), and after correcting for the selectivity problem that is...
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This study investigates the role of adverse working conditions in the determination of individual wages and overall job … conditions have a very minor role in the determination of individual wages in the Finnish labour market. In contrast, adverse …
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This paper examines the impact of job search methods on the output of the job search process in a segmented labor market. Theoretical models of job search, like the widely used search approach, generally contain only one parameter capturing all possible factors affecting the efficiency of...
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studies earnings inequality and determinants of earnings. During the period 1984-97, Malaysia’s real per capita GDP increased … years of schooling increased by 1.2 years. Inequality of earnings, measured by the Gini coefficient, remained stable, but …
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determination of equilibrium wages, and compare them to systems with free labor markets, along a continuum of demand side Cournotic …
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South Africans unemployment rate is one of the highest in the world, and it has important distributional implications. The paper examines the incidence of unemployment using two national household surveys for the mid-1990s. Both entry to unemployment and the duration of unemployment are...
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