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Signaling in the Labor Market: New Evidence on Layoffs and Plant Closings

Rodriguez-Planas, Nuria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

employer and may choose to remain unemployed rather than to accept a low-wage job. In this case, unemployment can serve as a … signal of productivity, and duration of unemployment may be positively related to post-laid-off wages even among workers who … are not recalled. In contrast, because workers whose plant closed cannot be recalled, longer unemployment for them should …

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The Effect of Sexual Activity on Wages

Drydakis, Nick - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The purpose of this study is to estimate whether sexual activity is associated with wages, and also to estimate potential interactions between individuals' characteristics, wages and sexual activity. The central hypothesis behind this research is that sexual activity, like health indicators and...

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The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Disruptions to Education, and the Returns to Schooling in Urban China

Giles, John T.; Park, Albert; Wang, Meiyan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This paper provides new evidence on educational disruptions caused by the Cultural Revolution and identifies the returns to schooling in urban China by exploiting individual-level variation in the effects of city-wide disruptions to education. The return to college is estimated at 49.8% using a...

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Mobility across Firms and Occupations among Graduates from Apprenticeship

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Licklederer, Stefanie; Zwiener, Hanna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

the wage effects of mobility among graduates from apprenticeship in Germany. Our instrumental variables approach exploits …

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Migraine Headache and Labor Market Outcomes

Rees, Daniel I.; Sabia, Joseph J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

While migraine headache can be physically debilitating, no study has attempted to estimate its effects on labor market outcomes. Using data drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we estimate the effect of migraine headache on labor force participation, hours worked, and...

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Classic Monopsony or New Monopsony? Searching for Evidence in Nursing Labor Markets

Hirsch, Barry T.; Schumacher, Edward J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

The market for hospital registered nurses (RNs) is often offered as an example of “classic” monopsony, while a “new” monopsony literature emphasizes firm labor supply being upwardsloping for reasons other than market structure. Using data from several sources, we explore the relationship...

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Wage Determination in the U.S. Airline Industry: Union Power under Product Market Constraints

Hirsch, Barry T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

The paper analyzes wages in the U.S. airline industry, focusing on the role of collective bargaining in a changing product market environment. Airline unions have considerable strike threat power, but are constrained by the financial health of carriers. Since airline deregulation, compensation...

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Does Wage Rank Affect Employees’ Wellbeing?

Brown, Gordon D. A.; Gardner, Jonathan; Oswald, Andrew; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

What makes workers happy? Here we argue that pure ‘rank’ matters. It is currently believed that wellbeing is determined partly by an individual’s absolute wage (say, 30,000 dollars a year) and partly by the individual’s relative wage (say, 30,000 dollars compared to an average in the...

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Labour as a Buffer: Do Temporary Workers Suffer?

Booth, Alison L.; Francesconi, Marco; Frank, Jeff - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

In this paper, we investigate whether or not there is an equal opportunities dimension to regulating equal pay and conditions for temporary work. We develop a “buffer stock” model of temporary work that suggests a number of reasons why ethnic minorities and women may be more likely to be on...

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Market Power, Dismissal Threat and Rent Sharing: The Role of Insider and Outsider Forces in Wage Bargaining

Carneiro, Anabela; Portugal, Pedro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

One of the predictions of the insider-outsider theory is that wages will be higher in sectors (firms) with high labor adjustment costs/high turnover costs. This prediction is tested empirically in this study, using an insider-outsider model and a longitudinal panel of large firms in Portugal....

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