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Wage Posting or Wage Bargaining? Evidence from the Employers' Side

Brenzel, Hanna; Gartner, Hermann; Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

bargaining in the matching process from the employer's side. We show that both modes of wage determination coexist in the German …

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What Explains the German Labor Market Miracle in the Great Recession?

Burda, Michael C.; Hunt, Jennifer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment loss. Employers' reticence to hire in the preceding expansion, associated in part with a lack of confidence it would last, contributed to an employment shortfall equivalent to 40...

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The German Labor Market: Still Adjusting Badly?

Eichhorst, Werner; Kaiser, Lutz C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

In the late nineties, Germany was often seen as a laggard with respect to labor market and welfare state reforms with institutional inertia being reflected in notoriously sluggish employment growth and rising unemployment. Recent years, however, saw a complex sequence of reforms with regard to...

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Trade Adjustment: Worker Level Evidence

Autor, David; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; Song, Jae - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through 2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition stemming from China's spectacular rise as a manufacturing exporter paired with longitudinal data on individual earnings...

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Big Fish in Small Pond or Small Fish in Big Pond? An Analysis of Job Mobility

Cardoso, Ana Rute - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

The statement that individuals care for status and for their position within a hierarchy has been subject to sparse economic analysis. I check this assertion by analyzing wages and status within the firm, with status measured as the worker rank in the firm wage hierarchy. More precisely, I focus...

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Job Mobility along the Technological Ladder: A Case Study of Australia

Meng, Xin; Junankar, P. N.; Kapuscinski, Cezary A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Labour economists have been increasingly interested in the impact of technological change upon employment and unemployment. However, the predominant focus of empirical studies has been on employment and unemployment stocks, whereas technological change is more likely to affect the flows of...

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Econometric Explorations on Bounded Rationality: The Case of Job Changing Behavior

Contini, Bruno; Morini, Matteo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

econometric explorations on microdata drawn from WHIP (Worker Histories Italian Panel). A rational outcome of the job matching … implications are powerful: are there reasons to believe that such patterns are found only in the context of job search and worker …

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Career Consequences of Hyperbolic Time Preferences

Drago, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

-the-job behaviors. On-the-job search on one hand and "collaborative behaviors" such as low absence rate and high effort on the other …, strongly affect mobility and individual wage growth. On-the-job search results in higher wages with the new employer while … collaboration are not as immediate as the rewards from search conditional on the arrival of a better job offer. I use a large …

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Works Councils and Separations: Voice, Monopoly, and Insurance Effects

Hirsch, Boris; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Using a large linked employer-employee data set for Germany, we find that the existence of a works council is associated with a lower separation rate to employment, in particular for men and workers with low tenure. While works council monopoly effects show up in all specifications, clear voice...

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Worker Mobility, Displacement, Redeployment and Wage Dynamics in Italy

Contini, Bruno; Villosio, Claudia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We investigate various stylized facts on wage growth, labor mobility and firm size, to date unexplored in Italy. Using a wage decomposition that allows to separate "individual premiums" from firm-effects, we ascertain: (1) whether movers are better off than stayers; (2) whether firm size affects...

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