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The Working Life: The Labor Market for Workers in Low-Skilled Jobs
Maxwell, Nan L. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Maxwell extablishes the link between skills and low-skilled jobs and reveals the state of he labor market facing low-skilled workers.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008472706
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The Wage Effects of Schooling under Socialism and in Transition: Evidence from Romania, 1950-2000
Andren, Daniela; Earle, John S.; Sapatoru, Dana - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2004
We estimate the impact of schooling on monthly earnings from 1950 to 2000 in Romania. Nearly constant at about 3-4 percent during the socialist period, the coefficient on schooling in a conventional earnings regression rises steadily during the 1990s, reaching 8.5 percent by 2000. Our analysis...
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Employment Relations and Wages: What Can We Learn from Subjective Assessments?
Lachowska, Marta - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2013
This paper studies the link between hourly wages and workers’ subjective assessments of how easy it would be to find … opportunities and respondents who think they are difficult to replace receive higher wages. The results appear to be consistent with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010662741
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Some Reflections on the Use of Administrative Data to Estimate the Net Impacts of Workforce Programs in Washington State
Hollenbeck, Kevin - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2004
The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the results, methodology, and processes used in a series of net labor market impact studies done for the State of Washington over the past six years. All of the studies relied on administrative data and used a technique referred to as quasi-...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005030696
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Wage Flexibility and Unemployment Dynamics in Regional Labor Markets
Hyclak, Thomas; Johnes, Geraint - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Hyclak and Johnes explore the extent to which wage rigidity differs across regional labor markets in the U.S. and how it affects the unemployment response to shifts in regional aggregate demand. They also look at the determinants of differences in wage rigidity across regional labor markets.
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Employee Benefits and Labor Markets in Canada and the United States
Alpert, William T. (contributor);  … - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Alpert and Woodbury present a comprehensive set of explorations into the impacts that the provision of various types of employee benefits (or lack thereof) have on labor markets. And while there are, as the editors point out, substantial differences between the employee benefits systems of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008472687
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Ownership and Wages: Estimating Public-Private and Foreign-Domestic Differentials with LEED from Hungary, 1986–2003
Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Almos - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2007
unobserved firm characteristics affecting the average level and trend growth of wages. These controls have little effect on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005141966
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Earnings Inequality in Germany
Abraham, Katharine G.; Houseman, Susan N. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1993
Recent studies have documented the growth of earnings inequality in the United States during the 1980s. In contrast to these studies' findings, our analysis of micro data for the former West Germany yields virtually no evidence of growth in earnings inequality over the same period. Between 1978...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005102005
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Does Privatization Hurt Workers? Lessons from Comprehensive Manufacturing Firm Panel Data in Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Almos - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2005
We estimate the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Applied to … job losses from privatization, and they never imply large negative effects on wages; only for domestic privatization in … impacts on both employment and wages in all four countries. The negligible consequences of domestic privatization for workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005030683
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Wages, Layoffs, and Privatization: Evidence from Ukraine
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Vakhitov, Vladimir - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2006
This paper estimates the effects of privatization on worker separations and wages using retrospective data from a … used to control for unobservables in worker and firm selection. The results imply that privatization reduces wages by 5 … percent and cuts the layoff probability in half. Outside investor ownership reduces separations but leaves wages unaffected …
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