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firm with stochastic product demand and hiring cost (= irreversible specific investments). There is wage bargaining between …
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the number of job applications that workerssend out. The wage distribution and job search intensities are simultaneously …
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vacancies post the same wage. When a= 1, the common posted wage lies between the competitive and monopsony levels, and … equilibrium is efficient. When a > 1, all vacancies post the monopsony wage. Some workers fail to find a job, some find a job at … the monopsony wage, and some—those for whom there is competition—get the competitive wage. Equilibrium is inefficient when …
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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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Randomized experiments provide policy relevant treatment effects if there areno spillovers between participants and nonparticipants. We show that thisassumption is violated for a Danish activation program for unemployed workers.Using a difference-in-difference model we show that 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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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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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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