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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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for median weekly earnings growth into the part associated with the wage growth ofpersons employed at the beginning and … end of the period (the wage growth effect) and the part associated withchanges in the composition of earners (the … tight job switchers get high wage increases,making them account for half of the variation in median weekly earnings growth …
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: by offering a generous wage and by giving attention. Contrary to the traditional gift-exchange hypothesis, we show that … than egoistic managers do. In such equilibria, a low wage signals to employees that the manager has something else to offer …
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The paper scrutinizes the role of wages and capital flows for competitiveness in the new EU member states in the context of real convergence. For this purpose it extends the seminal Balassa-Samuelson model by international capital markets. The augmented Balassa-Samuelson model is linked to the...
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We investigate the relationship between exporting, importing, and wage premia using a richmatched employer … set of worker- and firm-levelobservable and unobservable characteristics to the wage gap, and (ii) by controlling for … firm size and sales are, todifferent extents, important components of the wage gap both for exporters and importers …
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establishments in explaining rising wage dispersion. Over the period of analysis (1996–2007), the raw wage differential between … that feature an exporter wage premium as well as variability of the premium with respect to increasing trade liberalization …. A decomposition analysis shows that the increase in the conditional wage gap indeed contributed to rising wage …
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-called direct incidence via the wage bargaining process. Building on the innovative framework of Arulampalam, Devereux and Maffini …, which can be regarded as polar cases with respect to the relevant features of the wage-setting process. However, in many …
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GBTR 2000 led to a significant and sizeable wage effect. For 2001, the first year after GBTR 2000 took eff ect, we estimate … a short-run effect that implies a wage increase of 7.9 percent. Due to the dynamic nature of the empirical model used …
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Empirical evidence on the degree of business-tax shifting to employees via the wage level is highly controversial and …
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Firms hiring fresh graduates face uncertainty on the future productivity of workers. Theory suggests that starting wages reflect this, with lower pay for greater uncertainty. We use the dispersion of exam grades within a field of education as an indicator of the unobserved heterogeneity that...
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