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Simultaneous Search and Network Efficiency
Gautier, Pieter A.; Holzner, Christian - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
When workers send applications to vacancies they create a network. Frictions arise becauseworkers typically do not know where other workers apply to and firms do not know whichcandidates other firms consider. The first coordination friction affects network formation, whilethe second coordination...
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Interactions between Private and Public Sector Wages
Afonso, António; Gomes, Pedro - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
We examine the interactions between public and private sector wages per employee inOECD countries. The growth of public sector wages and of public sector employmentpositively affects the growth of private sector wages. Moreover, total factor productivity, theunemployment rate and the degree of...
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Real Wages and the Business Cycle:Accounting for Worker and Firm Heterogeneity
Carneiro, Anabela; Guimarães, Paulo; Portugal, Pedro - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
wages. A one-point increase in the unemployment rate decreases wages ofnewly hired male workers by around 2.8% and by just 1 …
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The Turkish Wage Curve:Evidence from the Household Labor Force Survey
Baltagi, Badi H.; Baskaya, Yusuf Soner; Hulagu, Timur - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
26 NUTS-2 regions over the period 2005-2008.When the local unemployment rate is treated as predetermined, there is … instrument for current unemployment rate, we find anunemployment elasticity of -0.099. We also find a higher elasticity for … finding is that the wages of females in Turkey are significantlymore responsive to local unemployment rates than their male …
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