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"This paper analyses theoretical effects of minimum wages on employment and the wage distribution under a frictional … setting. I review new developments in search theory and discuss the influence of minimum wages on wages and employment under … market in equilibrium search models. In the homogeneous case minimum wages do not affect employment, while in the …
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"This paper analyses theoretical effects of minimum wages on employment and the wage distribution under a frictional … setting. I review new developments in search theory and discuss the influence of minimum wages on wages and employment under … market in equilibrium search models. In the homogeneous case minimum wages do not affect employment, while in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537096
find that only one tenth of the gender gap in wages is explained by human capital differences between men and women. Re …
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find that only one tenth of the gender gap in wages is explained by human capital differences between men and women. Re …
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"This article investigates the employment development of Czech-based firms in German ownership in the years around the … years before the crisis, firms with German capital exhibited a noticeably more positive employment development. The results …
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matter for the polarisation of wages and employment. There are several studies investigating the influence of the local human … capital endowment on qualification-specific wages levels. However, analyses on regional employment growth by different skill … process and increasing inequalities in skill-specific employment prospects. Local human capital has a likely effect on skill …
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"In this paper we study the effect of small labor market entry cohorts on (un)employment in Western Germany. From a … cohort shrinking on (un)employment is an empirical question. We analyze the relationship between (un)employment and cohort …, with regard to the employment rate we find that it is positively affected by a decrease in the youth share." (Author …
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"Using German data this study applies an unobserved-components approach to disentangle the unemployment rate into a (stochastic) trend and a cyclical part and to estimate the influence of these components on labor participation. The persistent trend component of unemployment, which triggers...
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"We examine the effects of endogenous offshoring on cost-efficiency, wages and unemployment in a task-assignment model … downward pressure on all wages through domestic skill-task reallocation. If elasticities of task substitution are low (high …), the downward pressure on wages in neighboring skill segments is low (high) with a net effect of higher (lower) wages and …
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"We assess the relative impact of cultural norms and structural conditions on employment interruption patterns of new …
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