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Standard search models are unreliable for structural inference of the underlying sources ofwage inequality because they are inconsistent with observed residual wage dispersion. Weaddress this issue by modeling skill development and duration dependence in unemploymentbenefits in a random on the...
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Empirical investigations with enterprise level data from official statistics often use the averagewage as a proxy variable for the qualification of the workforce, mostly due to the lack ofdetailed information on the qualification of the employees. This paper uses unique newlyavailable data for...
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We investigate the effects of works councils on employees’ wages and job satisfaction ingeneral and for subgroups with … support for the hypothesis that the introductionof a works council itself increases wages or job satisfaction for the …
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This paper examines the impact of minimum wages on earnings and employment in selected branches of the retail …
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How much do developing countries benefit from foreign investment? We contribute to this question by comparing the employment and wage practices of foreign and domestic firms in Brazil, using detailed matched firm-worker panel data...
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as well as in terms of their implications for wages and employment. Our findings based on the 1998/99 labor force data … - the last labor force survey available - indicate that minimum wages, which, in principle, apply to all salaried employees … specifically, our results suggest that (i) compliance rates were higher in occupations other than agriculture, (ii) minimum wages …
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In this paper, we propose and test a novel effect of immigration on the wages of nativeworkers. Existing studies have … developed countries has a significantly negative effect onthe wages of native workers at the workplace - also when controlling …
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I report the measurement error in self-reported earnings for a developing country.Administrative data from the Federated States of Micronesia`s (FSM) Social Security officeare matched to the FSM Census data for the wage sector employed. I find that the error inannual self-reported earnings is...
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While it is a stylized fact that exporting firms pay higher wages than non-exporting firms, the direction of the link … between exporting and wages is less clear. Using a rich set of German linked employer-employee panel data we follow over time …
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This paper exploits survey information on reservation wages and data on actual wages from the European Community …
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