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This article is an idiosyncratic survey of the insider-outsider theory, describing the vision underlying the theory, and evaluating salient contributions to the literature in the light of this vision. We also indicate what appear to have been dead-ends and red herrings in past research. The...
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This paper considers the allocation of labour on the French and British markets, using objective wage and subjective … reflects labour market wage rents. Perhaps surprisingly, wage rents are typical of the British public sector and permanent …-outsider model lines, whereby wage rents are captured by the insiders of the public sector to the detriment of the private sector …
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of wage variation into factors due to heterogeneity of various model determinants as well as search frictions themselves …
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coverage on work-related training and how the union-training link affects wages and wage growth for a sample of full-time men … addition, union-covered men experience greater returns to training, and coveredtrained workers face a higher wage growth. While … some of these findings have been found in previous studies, others are new. The wage results, in particular, suggest a …
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proposed: the first, encouraged by the European commission and the OECD, consists in decentralising wage bargaining to the firm …. The second solution, the regionalisation of wage bargaining, is frequently mentioned in Belgium or in Italy where regional … unemployment differentials are high. The objective of this paper is to verify if the Belgian wage setting system, where industry …
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by the firm. We find the usual effects of over- and undereducation in a wage regression, thus rejecting the argument that …
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temp wage gap and post-temp earnings in Germany. Using a two-stage selection-corrected method in a panel data framework, we … show that the wage gap for temps with low treatment intensity is high but decreases with exposure to the sector. It seems … to accept a sizeable wage disadvantage at first, indicating that temporary agency employment might stigmatise workers …
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This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...
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This study is a descriptive analysis of the labor market conditions in Iraqi Federal Kurdistan Region. It explores a number of integrated factors that covariate and determine the level and patterns of the labor market outcomes in the region. In the first step, each of the determinants of...
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Economic conditions at the time of labour market entry can induce wage differentials between workers entering the … labour market at different points in time. While the existence and persistence of these entry wage differentials are well … area by analyzing the interaction between job mobility and entry wage differentials using German administrative data. The …
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