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The theory of career mobility (Sicherman and Galor 1990) claims that wage penalties for overeducated workers are compensated by better promotion prospects. Sicherman (1991) was able to confirm this theory in an empirical study. However, the controls for the opposing phenomenon of undereducation...
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This paper produces first econometric estimates for Germany of the contemporanous wage gap associated with Temporary Help Service (THS) employment, as well as the long-term effects of THS work on the future earnings of workers. In addition, we present evidence showing that average male real...
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-tier labour market for temporary employment in Germany. -- mobility ; unemployment ; Fixed-term contracts ; dynamic wages …Amid lively debate on the consequences of temporary employment, the paper examines the wages and transitions of … same employer. For some temporary employment leads to unemployment, particularly those with low human capital. Positioning …
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In this experimental study of tax evasion and its determinants participants earn their income in a complex stochastic … intertemporal environment including the possibility to invest into a risky asset. The earned income has to be declared in four tax … donated to charity organizations. Our main results show that higher income induces tax fraud and that gender differences exist. …
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There is common consensus that managerial compensation is strongly tied to firm size and much less so to financial performance. One suspects that observed restructuring and downsizing in corporations in recent years may have an effect on these results. Based on multi-task theoretical...
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This paper investigates the effect of displacement on reemployment wages of socially insured West German workers who … imputed using a probit estimated on the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP). Average wages of those classified as displaced … recalls, and to the probit specification used, and are confirmed in the smaller GSOEP file. -- displaced workers ; wages …
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Using 1985-1999 data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP) to analyze wages we confirm the hypothesis that … statistically significant effect on current wages leads one to conclude that computer wage differentials can be attributed to worker …
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This paper examines the relationship between unemployment, real oil price and real interest rates in Canada. Instead of …/cointegration techniques which allow for the possibility that unemployment is highly persistent. In line with other studies, we find that all … equilibrium model with highly persistent shocks might be adequate to account for the observed behaviour of unemployment …
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jobs in rough times separate analyses are carried out those who have entered the job directly from unemployment or non …
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, Nash-bargained wages, payroll taxation, and differential support for unemployed labor in search and leisure are central …
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