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Employer Learning and the Returns to Schooling

Bauer, Thomas K.; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

We examine the dynamic role of education and experience as determinants of wages. It is hypothesized that an employee's education is an important signal to the employer initially. Over time, the returns to schooling should decrease with labor market experience and increase with initially...

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Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in Small Establishments

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Bonin, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Based on a large employer-employee matched data set, the paper investigates the effects of variable enforcement of German dismissal protection legislation on the employment dynamics in small establishments. Specifically, using a difference-in-differences approach, we study the effect of changes...

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Job Protection, Minimum Wage and Unemployment

Cahuc, Pierre; Zylberberg, André - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

We analyze how wage setting institutions and job-security provisions interact on unemployment. The assumption that … exercises suggest that redundancy transfers and administrative dismissal restrictions have negligeable unemployment effects when … wages are flexible or when the minimum wage is low, but a dramatic positive impact on unemployment when there is a high …

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Redundancy Payments, Incomplete Labor Contracts, Unemployment and Welfare

Cahuc, Pierre; Zylberberg, André - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

high severance payments are likely to decrease unemployment but systematically decrease welfare and raise inequality …

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