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The Long-Term Labor Market Effects of Parental Unemployment

Schmidpeter, Bernhard - 2020

I investigate the impact of parental unemployment on children's educational attainment and long-run labor market … outcomes in Austria. I find that parental unemployment shortly before an important educational decision by parents for their … results emphasize the intergenerational and long-lasting consequences of parental unemployment. …

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Social Networks, Promotions, and the Glass-Ceiling Effect

Zaharieva, Anna; Neugart, Michael - 2020

internal promotions and job-to-job mobility. Both, formal applications and referral hiring via endogenous social networks, can … network-driven gender inequality but mitigate inequality arising from direct discrimination in internal promotions. …

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Can Group Identity Explain Gender Gap in Recruitment Process?

Mavlikeeva, Maria; Asanov, Igor - 2020

Despite evidence of the gender wage gap in favor of men, aggregate findings from correspondence studies show that women are more likely than men to be invited for a job interview (Gornall and Strebulaev, 2018). We hypothesize that the predominance of women among recruiters may explain this...

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Social Optimum in a Model with Hierarchical Firms and Endogenous Promotion Time

Mitkova, Mariya - 2020

This paper develops a search and matching model with hierarchical firms, human capital accumulation, internal promotions and on-the-job search. At the time of their market entry firms maximize present value of profits with respect to their promotion rule. Workers who are eligible for promotion...

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The Role of Incomplete Information in Shaping Policy Effects: Evidence from Unemployment Insurance

Arni, Patrick; Liu, Xingfei - 2020

different large-scale quasi-experiments on changing potential benefit duration (PBD) in unemployment insurance (UI). Thereby, we …

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A question of gender? How promotions affect earnings

Zucco, Aline; Bächmann, Ann-Christin - 2020

Occupational positions can explain an important part of the differences in pay between men and women. However, a considerable Gender Pay Gap exists even within the same occupational position. In this paper, we aim at understanding the reasons for the gap within occupational positions and,...

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Local labor market effects of FDI regulation in Indonesia

Genthner, Robert; Kis-Katos, Krisztina - 2020

Using yearly Indonesian labor market data for 2000 to 2015, we investigate the impact of a protectionist foreign direct investment (FDI) policy reform on employment and wages. The so-called negative investment list regulates FDI at the highly granular product level and has been repeatedly...

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Diverging paths: Labor reallocation, sorting, and wage inequality

Winkler, Erwin - 2020

This paper provides evidence that labor reallocation from the manufacturing into the non-manufacturing sector causes an increase in sorting of high-skilled (low-skilled) workers into high-paying (low-paying) firms and thereby triggers a rise in wage inequality. I use data on 50% of all West...

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Wage inequality in Germany after the minimum wage introduction

Schank, Thorsten; Bossler, Mario - 2020

While monthly wage inequality in Germany continued to increase strongly until 2010, it recently returned to the level of the year 2000. We assess the role of the national minimum wage introduced in 2015. Unconditional quantile regressions combined with difference-indifferences show significant...

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Impact of universities in a flat hierarchy: Do degrees from top universities lead to a higher wage?

Schwerter, Jakob - 2020

The literature shows a wage premium for graduates from high quality, elite, or more selective universities. The results, however, exist for countries with a clear hierarchy of top universities, such as the US, England, and Australia. I evaluate if such an effect also exists in Germany, a country...

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