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factor shares turn in favour of wages, when unemployment falls. The only important prerequisite for this result is that money … partly determined by the unemployment stock. As intuition says the share of wages in value added increases with the stock of … explanatory unemployment variable in the Phillips relation is intuitively to be regarded as an indicator of labour scarcity …
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performance, wage setting and discrimination. Generally, firms report positive experiences of having refugees as employees, but we … discrimination of them by staff or customers. While most firms agree with statements that wage cuts negatively affect worker cohesion …
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endowment and discrimination components using techniques by Oaxaca (1973) and Oaxaca and Ransom (1994). …
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This paper is the first to estimate the effects of minimum wages on the unemployment of refugee immigrants. The … collectively agreed minimum wages raise both the incidence of unemployment and days in unemployment considerably for male refugees …
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Theories of taste-based discrimination predict that competitive pressures will drive discriminatory behavior out of the …
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This paper provides a simple explanation for why some minority groups are economically successful, despite being subject to government-mandated discriminatory policies. We study an economy with private and public sectors in which workers invest in imperfectly observable skills that are important...
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This paper studies the relationship between height and leadership. Using data from a representative sample of Swedish men, I document that tall men are significantly more likely to attain managerial positions. An increase in height by 10 centimeters (3.94 inches) is associated with a 2.2...
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This paper provides a simple explanation for why some minority groups are economically successful, despite being subject to government-mandated discriminatory policies. We study an economy with private and public sectors in which workers invest in imperfectly observable skills that are important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645316
. The estimated earnings differences are decomposed into endowment and discrimination components using techniques by Oaxaca … estimates we find that accounting for selection does not affect the endowment component, but do affect the discrimination …
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