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effects across skill groups, occupational tasks performed, and gender. Employment reactions to digitalization are most …While numerous studies have analyzed the aggregate employment effects of digital technologies, this paper focuses on … the employment development of individual workers exposed to digitalization. We use a unique linked employer-employee data …
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asks the personnel managers about their expectations concerning employment adjustments. We find that employment reacts … expected reduction in employment. Employment adjustments are more pronounced in those industries and plants which are more …. In contrast, employment is not found to increase if the minimum wage is reduced by about 10 percent. This mainly reflects …
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-employee data for Germany that allow to take the complete employment biographies of newly hired workers into account. The results … instable employment biographies, come from unemployment or outside the labor force, or were affected by a plant closure … in startups than in incumbents. Therefore, even if startups provide employment opportunities for certain groups of …
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suggest that employment growth is dampened by firms avoiding to exceed thresholds. In order to minimize these transaction …
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reduce wages by 0.5 percentand employment by 1.6 percent, reflecting monopsonistic exploitation. In line with per …-fect competition, sectoral minimum wages lead to negative employment effects in slightlyconcentrated labor markets. This effect weakens …, theresults lend empirical support to the monopsony argument, implying that conventionalminimum wage effects on employment conceal …
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men's (which is the reverse of gender differences in labor supply usually found at the level of the market). One … implication of these findings is that the gender pay gap could be the result of wage discrimination by profit …
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(un)employment. These disadvantages hold for all groups of workers and types of start-ups analyzed. Although our analysis …
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In Germany, employers used to pay union members and non-members in a plant the same union wage in order to prevent workers from joining unions. Using recent administrative data, we investigate which workers in firms covered by collective bargaining agreements still individually benefit from...
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Using representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper finds a statistically significant union wage premium in Germany of almost three percent which is not simply a collective bargaining premium. Given that the union membership fee is typically about one percent of...
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plants, we investigate the effect of product market competition on the gender pay gap. Controlling for match fixed effects we …
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