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Decomposing immigrant wage assimilation - the role of workplaces and occupations

Eliasson, Tove - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2013

This article uses a matched employer-employee panel data of the Swedish labor market to study immigrant wage assimilation, decomposing the wage catch-up into parts which can be attributed to relative wage growth within and between workplaces and occupations. This study shows that failing to...

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The Labor Market Consequences of Gender Differences in Job Search

Eriksson, Stefan; Lagerström, Jonas - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2008

This paper studies gender differences in labor market outcomes using data from an Internetbased CV database. The women in the database get fewer firm contacts than men, and we show that this is partly explained by differences in education, experience and other skills, is not explained by...

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What is the right profile for getting a job? A stated choice experiment of the recruitment process

Eriksson, Stefan; Johansson, Per; Langenskiöld, Sophie - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012

, but does not affect the degree of discrimination. Also, there are only small differences in the degree of discrimination … between different types of recruiters and firms. Overall, our results suggest that the discrimination, at least partially …, should reflect statistical discrimination. …

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Search, Bargaining and Employer Discrimination

Rosen, A. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1998

This paper analyses Becker's (1971) theory of employer discrimination within a search and wage-bargaining setting … that the highest profits are realized by firms with a positive discrimination coefficient. Moreover, once ownership and … control are separated, both highest profits and highest utility may be realized by firms with a positive discrimination …

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Detecting discrimination in the hiring process: Evidence from an Internet-based search channel

Eriksson, Stefan; Lagerström, Jonas - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2007

discrimination, such as the searchers’ ethnicity, gender, age and employment status, affect the number of contacts they receive from … nobserved heterogeneity better than most existing studies of discrimination. We find that, even when we control for other …

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Bargaining and Strategic Discrimination

Björnerstedt, Jonas; Westermark, Andreas - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2006

In bargaining between two sellers and one buyer on prices and quantities, strategic inefficiencies arise. By reallocating between the last agreement and the first, the buyer can increase it's share of the surplus. With symmetric sellers producing substitutes, the quantities in the first...

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Search, Bargaining and Employer Discrimination

Rosén, Åsa - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1998

This paper analyses Becker´s (1971) theory of employer discrimination within a search and wage-bargaining setting … that the highest profits are realized by firms with a positive discrimination coefficient. Moreover, once ownership and … control are separated, both highest profits and highest utility may be realized by firms with a positive discrimination …

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Family Job Search, Wage Bargaining, and Optimal Unemployment Insurance

Ek, Susanne; Holmlund, Bertil - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2010

In this paper we develop an equilibrium search and matching model where two-person families as well as singles participate in the labor market. We show that equilibrium entails wage dispersion among equally productive risk-averse workers. Marital status as well as spousal labor market status...

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Family Job Search, Wage Bargaining, and Optimal Unemployment Insurance

Holmlund, Bertil; Ek, Susanne - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2010

The paper develops an equilibrium search and matching model where two-person families as well as singles participate in the labor market. We show that equilibrium entails wage dispersion among equally productive risk-averse workers. Marital status as well as spousal labor market status matter...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008545782

Time Out of Work and Skill Depreciation

Edin, Per-Anders; Gustavsson, Magnus - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2004

This paper investigates the role of skill depreciation in the relationship between work interruptions and subsequent wages. Using a unique longitudinal dataset, the Swedish part of the International Adult Literacy Survey, we are able to analyze changes in literacy skills for individuals as a...

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