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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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We compare the returns to education (RTE) for entrepreneurs and employees, based on 19waves of the NLSY database. By using instrumental variable techniques (IV) and takingaccount of selectivity, we find that the RTE are significantly higher for entrepreneurs than foremployees (18.3 percent and...
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spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on … control over the profitable employment of their human capital than wage employees. …
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in the economy. Furthermore, more educated workers typically end up in wage employment and prefer nonfarm … entrepreneurship to farming. The education effect that separates workers into self-employment and wage employment is stronger for women …
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? Our individual fixed-effects estimates of the differential returns to ability for spells in entrepreneurship versus wage …
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