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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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', local development policies are fairly ineffective in raising the local unemployment outflow, because labor markets overlap …
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This paper investigates long-term returns from unemployment compensation, exploiting variation from the UK JSA reform … post-unemployment wages. I test these ideas on longitudinal data from Social Security records (LLMDB). Using a difference … in differences approach, I find that individuals who start an unemployment spell soon after JSA introduction, as opposed …
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Reduced-form tests of scale effects in markets with search, run when aggregate matching functions are estimated, may miss important scale effects at the micro level, because of the reactions of job searchers. A semi-structural model is developed and estimated on a British sample, testing for...
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Women in Britain who work part-time have, on average, hourly earnings about 25% less than that of women working full-time. This gap has widened greatly over the past 30 years. This paper tries to explain this part-time pay penalty. It shows that a sizeable part of the penalty can be explained by...
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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
first ever meta-analysis of field experiments on occupational access discrimination based on sexual orientation, (ii …) utilizing the moderating role of marital status and family support, (iii) studying occupational access discrimination based on …
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