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Immigration and Heterogeneous Labour in Western Germany: A Labour Market Classification Based on Nonparametric Estimation
Fröhlich, Markus; Puhani, Patrick A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
immigrants are characterized by above average age and by professional occupations. On the other hand, labour markets for young … workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666760
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Gender gaps of the unemployed : what drives diverging labor market outcomes?
Dauth, Christine - 2016
for these groups suggest that family-related preferences, employer discrimination, and institutional settings matter for … unemployment duration and the quality of reemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011535887
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Do Good Workers Hurt Bad Workers - or is it the Other Way Around?
Moen, Espen R - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
In this article, I study the effect of worker heterogeneities on wages and unemployment within the context of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005667080
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Reflections on wage-setting
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2018
Central banks need to be concerned about wages since they are a major driver of inflation. Rising wages are needed to signal directions for market adjustments to ensure growth. Wage growth is driven by relative scarcity, labor productivity and expectations about inflation and future growth....
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Migration, unemployment, and skill downgrading : specific-factors approch
Vallizadeh, Ehsan; Muysken, Joan; Ziesemer, Thomas - 2013
immigration, low-skilled unemployment, and mediumskill downgrading, ii) the increase in low skill intensive service jobs. The … workers decreases the low-skilled unemployment rate under endogenous benefits; (ii) migration of only medium skilled labor has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010126919
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Minimum wages, wage dispersion and unemployment : a review on new search models
Garloff, Alfred - 2008
Die Studie analysiert die theoretischen Auswirkungen von Mindestlöhnen auf Beschäftigung und Lohnspreizung in einem fluktuationsbedingten Szenario. Es wird ein Überblick über neue theoretische Forschungsansätze gegeben und der Einfluss von Mindestlöhnen auf Einkommen und Beschäftigung in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003874124
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Firm productivity, wages, and sorting
Lochner, Benjamin; Schulz, Bastian - 2020
Increasing wage inequality is associated with changes in the degree of labor market sorting, i.e. the allocation of workers to firms. To measure sorting, we propose a new method which disentangles the respective contributions of worker and firm heterogeneity to wage inequality. Inspired by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012159531
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Economic Preferences and Attitudes of the Unemployed: Are Natives and Second Generation Migrants Alike?
Constant, Amelie; Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between … employment probability about two months after unemployment entry. We observe a significantly lower employment probability for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854486
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Reservation Wages of First and Second Generation Migrants
Constant, Amelie; Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854550
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Long-term effects of hiring subsidies for unemployed youths - beware of spillovers
Albanese, Andrea; Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022
increases job-finding in the private sector by 10 percentage points within one year of unemployment. Six years later, high …
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