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Buhai, Sebastian; Portela, Miguel; Teulings, Coen N.; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

firm with stochastic product demand and hiring cost (= irreversible specific investments). There is wage bargaining between …

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Dismissals for Cause:The Difference That Just Eight Paragraphs Can Make

Martins, Pedro S. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

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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Why Ex(Im)porters Pay More:Evidence from Matched Firm-Worker Panels

Martins, Pedro S.; Opromolla, Luca David - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

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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Foreign Ownership, Employment and Wages in Brazi l: Evidence from Acquisitions, Divestments and Job Movers

Martins, Pedro S.; Esteves, Luiz A. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

employment and wage practices of foreign and domestic firms in Brazil, using detailed matched firm-worker panel data... …

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The Impact of Workplace Conditions on Firm Performance

Buhai, Sebastian; Cottini, Elena; Westergård-Nielsen, Niels - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

production functions augmented with work environment indicators and aggregate employee characteristics and ii) firm mean wage …

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Starting Wages Respond To Employer's Risk

Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop; Ophem, Hans van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

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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Unobserved Heterogeneity and Risk in Wage Variance: Does Schooling provide Earnings Insurance?

Mazza, Jacopo; Ophem, Hans van; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education. We replicate the original study on US men and extend to US women, UK men and German men. Most original results are not robust. A college education cannot universally be considered an...

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A Social Network Analysis of Occupational Segregation

Buhai, Sebastian; Leij, Marco van der - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

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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Dual Track or Academic Route for Auditors

Jonker, Nicole; Ophem, Hans van; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

relatively general. Applying human capital theory, we expect higher wage growth for full-time educated auditors than for dual …

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