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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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Previous research has found identity to be relevant for international migration, but has neglected internal mobility as … labor market outcomes of migrants in China, the country with the largest record of internal mobility. Using instrumental …
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Previous research on internal mobility has neglected the role of local identity contrary to studies analyzing … mobility in the world, closes the gap. Instrumental variable estimation and careful robustness checks suggest that identifying …
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Scholars have gone to great lengths to chart the incidence of ethnic labour market discrimination. To effectively … mitigate this discrimination, however, we need to understand its underlying mechanisms because different mechanisms lead to …-based and statistical discrimination against the empirical reality. First, we observed that the measurement operationalisation …
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Using a choice experiment, we test whether taste-based employee discrimination against ethnic minorities is susceptible … hypothetical wage penalty for discriminatory choice behaviour lowers discrimination and that higher penalties have a greater effect …
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Recent studies have explored hiring discrimination as an obstacle to former burnout patients. Many workers, however …, return to the same employer, where they face an even more severe aftermath of burnout syndrome: promotion discrimination. To … as potential mediators of promotion discrimination. Estimates reveal that compared to employees without an employment …
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Hiring discrimination towards (former) burnout patients has been extensively documented in the literature. To tackle … this problem, it is important to understand the underlying mechanisms of such discrimination. Therefore, we conducted a …
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Throughout history, border walls and fences have been built for defense, to claim land, to signal power, and to control migration. The costs of fortifications are large while the benefits are questionable. The recent trend of building walls and fences signals a paradox: In spite of the...
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Throughout history, border walls and fences have been built for defense, to claim land, to signal power, and to control migration. The costs of fortifications are large while the benefits are questionable. The recent trend of building walls and fences signals a paradox: In spite of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161476
historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much … larger. Therefore, we point to the clear limitations of the unemployment rate as the (single) key macro-economic indicator of … the health of the labour market. A parsimonious dashboard approach utilising the unemployment-to-population ratio and the …
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