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Skill Wage Premia, Employment, and Cohort Effects: Are Workers in Germany All of the Same Type?
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
subsample 1975{1997. It extends the analytical framework of Card and Lemieux (2001) which simultaneously includes skill and age … as important dimensions of heterogeneity. After having identified cohort effects in skill wage premia and in the … evolution of relative employment measures, we estimate elasticities of substitution between employees in three different skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763619
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Skill-Biased Technical Change in U.S. Manufacturing: A General Index Approach
Baltagi, Badi H.; Rich, Daniel P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
skill-biased technical change effects are most evident prior to 1983. This predates the diffusion of personal computer … price-induced substitution, nonhomothetic output effects and skill-biased technical change responses to a range of proposed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761848
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Zukünftige Fachkräfteengpässe in Deutschland?
Dräger, Vanessa - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Gefährdet der demographische Wandel den ökonomischen Wohlstand in Deutschland oder reicht das Arbeitsvolumenangebot aus, um den Arbeitsvolumenbedarf zu decken? In diesem Beitrag wird mittels Wachstumszerlegung der Bedarf für ein fortgeschriebenes BIP-pro-Kopf ermittelt. Dieser wird dem...
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How the Demand for Labor May Adapt to the Availability of Labor: A Preliminary Exploration with Historical Data
Duleep, Harriet; Liu, Xingfei - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This note presents and tests a general model to help explain why the demand for labor adapts to the availability of labor. In particular, we postulate that the cost of hiring declines with a growth in available labor for two reasons: (1) individuals seeking employment would be coming to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212571
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One Way the Demand for Labor May Adapt to the Availability of Labor
Duleep, Harriet - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper presents and tests a model that may partially explain why the demand for labor adapts to the availability of labor. In particular, I postulate that the cost of hiring declines with increases in the amount of labor available. The cost of hiring would decrease with a growth in available...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010556211
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Spatial and Temporal Aggregation in the Estimation of Labor Demand Functions
Varejão, José; Portugal, Pedro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
The consequences of aggregation, temporal or spatial, for the estimation of demand models are theoretically well-known, but have not been documented empirically with appropriate data before. In this paper we conduct a simple, but instructive, exercise to fill in this gap, using a large quarterly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566347
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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
adjustment costs that are highly unevenly distributed across workers according to their skill levels and conditions of employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959580
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Wage and Employment Determination in Volatile Times: Sweden 1913-1939
Holmlund, Bertil - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s. This period includes the boom and bust cycle of the early 1920s as well as the Great Depression of the early 1930s. The events of the early 1920s are particularly intriguing,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279371
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The Demand for Labor: An Analysis Using Matched Employer-Employee Data from the German LIAB. Will the High Unskilled Worker Own-Wage Elasticity Please Stand Up?
Addison, John T.; Bellmann, Lutz; Schank, Thorsten; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
) labor that should assist in short-run policy design and to identify the extent of skill biases or otherwise in trade and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763787
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Can Insider Power Affect Employment?
Díaz-Vázquez, Pilar; Snower, Dennis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional answer in the theoretical literature is that insider power has no influence on employment, provided that the newly hired employees (entrants) receive their reservation wages....
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