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Wage Effects of Recruitment Methods : The Case of the Italian Social Service Sector

Mosca, Michele; Pastore, Francesco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

This paper uses a unique data set containing detailed micro-information on organisations, managers, workers and volunteers belonging to public, private forprofit and private nonprofit institutions delivering social services in Italy. The analysis aims to estimate the determinants of wages across...

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Becoming an Entrepreneur

Ñopo, Hugo; Valenzuela, Patricio - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Using the 1996-2001 Chilean CASEN Panel Survey, this paper analyzes the impact onincome of the switch from salaried employment to entrepreneurship (self-employment andleadership of micro-enterprises). By means of a difference-in-differences non-parametricmatching estimator the paper alleviates...

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Migration and the Wage Curve : A Structural Approach to Measure the Wage and Employment Effects of Migration

Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

Based on a wage curve approach we examine the labor market effects of migration in Germany. The wage curve relies on … wage and employment effects of migration simultaneously in a general equilibrium framework. For the empirical analysis we … vocational degree. The wage and employment effects of migration are moderate... …

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The Employment and Earnings of Migrants inGreat Britain

Andrews, Martyn; Clark, Ken; Whittaker, William - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

examine the labour market returns to inter-regional migration inGreat Britain... …

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Labour Contracts and Performance of Cameroonian Firms

Fomba Kamga, Benjamin - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

The aim of this study is to evaluate employees’ productivity in relation to their contract status.This study uses (a) survey data collected among manufacturing sector firms, having morethan 15 employees, in Cameroon between April and May 2006 and (b) information issued bythe National Institute...

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Outsourcing of Unionized Firms and the Impact of Labor Market Policy Reforms

Koskela, Erkki; Schöb, Ronnie - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

This paper shows that outsourcing of parts of workforce in unionized firms leads to wage moderation both in the case of strategic and flexible outsourcing and as long as the share of the outsourced workforce is not too large, this wage-moderation effect on domestic employment outweighs the...

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Cyclical Movements in Unemployment and Informality in Developing Countries

Bosch, Mariano; Maloney, William F. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

This paper analyzes the cyclical properties of worker flows in Brazil and Mexico, two important developing countries with large unregulated or "informal" sectors. It generates three stylized facts that are critical to the accurate modeling of the sector and which suggest the need to rethink the...

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Uncertainty and the Politics of Employment Protection

Vindigni, Andrea - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

This paper investigates the role that idiosyncratic uncertainty plays in shaping social preferences over the degree of labor market flexibility, in a general equilibrium model of dynamic labor demand where the productivity of firms evolves over time as a Geometric Brownian motion...

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The Effects of Labour Tax Progression under Nash Wage Bargaining and Flexible Outsourcing

Koskela, Erkki - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

This paper studies in the presence of flexible outsourcing the effects of outsourcing costs, productivity of outsourcing, wage tax and tax exemption in an imperfectly competitive labour markets when labour unions and firms negotiate wages and the impacts of labour tax progression on domestic...

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Institutions and Contract Enforcement

Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; MacLeod, Bentley W. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

We provide evidence on how two important types of institutions - dismissal barriers, and bonus pay - affect contract enforcement behavior in a market with incomplete contracts and repeated interactions. Dismissal barriers are shown to have a strong negative impact on worker performance, and...

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