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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
public competitions brings with it a substantial wage premium (ranging from 7 to 32%). Informal networks bring with them a … wage penalty (-6.5%) in the state sector, where formal hiring methods are common, and a wage premium (6.3%) in social … in job search methods between state and private organisations explain from 50% to 100% of the conditional wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005860262
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863120
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Direct Evidence on Income Comparisonsand their Welfare Effects
Senik, Claudia - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper provides unheard direct evidence that comparisons exert a significant effect onsubjective well-being. It also evaluates the relative importance of different types ofbenchmarks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861346
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Job Satisfaction and Co-worker Wages:Status or Signal?
Clark, Andrew E.; Kristensen, Nicolai; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper uses matched employer-employee panel data to show that individual jobsatisfaction is higher when other workers in the same establishment are better-paid. Thisruns contrary to a large literature which has found evidence of income comparisons insubjective well-being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861654
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Training the Unemployed in France: How Does ItAffect Unemployment Duration and Recurrence?
Crépon, Bruno; Ferracci, Marc; Fougère, Denis - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Econometric evaluations of public-sponsored training programmes generally find littleevidence of an impact of such policies on transition rates out of unemployment. We performthe first evaluation of training effects for the unemployed adults in France, exploiting a uniquelongitudinal dataset...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861168
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Long Term Earnings Inequality, Earnings Instability and Temporary Employment in Spain , 1993–2000
Cervini, María; Ramos, Xavi - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper provides a longitudinal perspective on changes in Spanish male earnings inequality for the period 1993-2000, by decomposing the earnings covariance structure into its permanent and transitory parts. According to the Spanish sample of the European Community Household Panel,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859605
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Long-Run Labour Market Effects of Individual Sports Activities
Lechner, Michael - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This microeconometric study analyzes the effects of individual leisure sports participation on long-term labour market variables, on socio-demographic as well as on health and subjective well-being indicators for West Germany based on individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859581
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Exploring the Causes of Frictional Wage Dispersion
Tjaden, Volker; Wellschmied, Felix - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
are inconsistent with observed residual wage dispersion. Weaddress this issue by modeling skill development and duration … and search on the job are the main drivers behind our model’s empiricalsuccess in replicating wage dispersion (residual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486869
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The Economics of Language : An Introduction and Overview
Chiswick, Barry R. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and benefits associated with this characteristic embodied in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859575
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Occupational Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap in Private- and Public-Sector Employment : A Distributional Analysis
Baron, Juan; Cobb-Clark, Deborah - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
We use HILDA data from 2001 - 2006 to analyse the source of the gender wage gap across public- and private-sector wage … explaining relative wages. We find that, irrespective of labour market sector, the gender wage gap among low-paid, Australian … workers is more than explained by differences in wage-related characteristics...T …
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