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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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Help Service (THS) employment, as well as the long-term effects of THS work on the future earnings of workers. In addition …
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Amid lively debate on the consequences of temporary employment, the paper examines the wages and transitions of …-tier labour market for temporary employment in Germany. -- mobility ; unemployment ; Fixed-term contracts ; dynamic wages … same employer. For some temporary employment leads to unemployment, particularly those with low human capital. Positioning …
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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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dispersion across employers exists in the sense that different employers offer different wages to the same worker, the theory … some cases all of the employment effect, defined as the difference between median wage earned by employed workers and the …
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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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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 examines the relationship between unemployment, real oil price and real interest rates in Canada. Instead of …
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This paper uses fractional integration and cointegration in order to model the DM/dollar and the yen/dollar real exchange rates in terms of both monetary and real factors, more specifically real interest rate and labour productivity differentials. We find that whilst the individual series may be...
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Most models of labor markets and (un)employment neglect how competition among firms or sectors of the economy affects … by price competition. A special advantage of such a framework is that one can distinguish two kinds of employment effects …
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