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firm with stochastic product demand and hiring cost (= irreversible specific investments). There is wage bargaining between …
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This paper provides evidence about the effects of dismissals-for-cause requirements, aspecific component of employment protection legislation that has received little attentiondespite its potential relevance. We study a quasi-natural experiment generated by a lawintroduced in Portugal in 1989:...
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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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employment and wage practices of foreign and domestic firms in Brazil, using detailed matched firm-worker panel data... …
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production functions augmented with work environment indicators and aggregate employee characteristics and ii) firm mean wage …
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when workers’ motivation is private information. While posting a higher wage increases the probability of filling the … optimal wage scheme entails a trade-off between the probability of filling the vacancy, the rents left to the worker, and the …
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. Lastly, it is shown that workers' reasons to quit fully explain the differences in wage growth between intra- and …
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This paper proposes a simple social network model of occupational segregation, generated by the existence of inbreeding bias among individuals of the same social group. If network referrals are important in getting a job, then expected inbreeding bias in the social structure results in different...
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