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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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Social assimilation and labor market outcomes of migrants in China

Cai, Shu; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2020

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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Social identity and labor market outcomes of internal migrant workers

Cai, Shu; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2024 - This version: January 9, 2024

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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Is the gender pay gap in the US just the result of gender segregation at work?

Meara, Katie; Pastore, Francesco; Webster, Allan D. - 2017 - This draft: 16th of March 2017

This study examines the gender wage gap between male and female workers in the US using a cross-section from the Current Population Survey (CPS) It shows that the extent of gender segregation by both industry and occupation is significantly greater than previously supposed. For the wage gap this...

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The gender pay gap in the US : a matching study

Meara, Katie; Pastore, Francesco; Webster, Allan D. - 2019

This study examines the gender wage gap in the US using two separate cross-sections from the Current Population Survey (CPS). The extensive literature on this subject includes papers which use wage decompositions to divide gender wag gaps into "explained" and "unexplained" components. Problems...

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Will it be a shecession? : the unintended influence of working from home on the gender wage gap related to the COVID-19 pandemic

Bonacini, Luca; Gallo, Giovanni; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2021 - Version: January 2021

Working from home (WFH) has become a key factor during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in countries that have implemented severe social distancing measures. This paper investigates the potential influence of the working from home attitude of occupations on the gender wage gap (GWG) reported by...

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Marshallian vs Jacobs effects : which one is stronger? : evidence for Russia unemployment dynamics

Demidova, Olʹga Anatolʹevna; Kolyagina, Alena; … - 2019

Russian labour market, the unemployment growth. The purpose of the work is to find out which effects dominate in the Russian … were empirically tested: 1) the dependence of the unemployment rate on the degree of concentration or diversification is … concentration or diversification on the level of unemployment depends on the time period. To test these hypotheses nonparametric …

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Immigration and unemployment in Europe : does the core-periphery dualism matter?

Esposito, Piero; Collignon, Stefan; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2019

In this paper, we assess the impact of immigration and unemployment for a sample of 15 EU countries between 1997 and … immigration on domestic unemployment in the short and in the long run. In the long run, immigration is found to reduce … unemployment in all peripheral-countries. In core countries, we find no long-run impact of immigration on unemployment due to …

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More insecure and less paid? : the effect of perceived job insecurity on wage distribution

Scicchitano, Sergio; Biagetti, Marco; Chirumbolo, Antonio - 2018

This article employs a Counterfactual Decomposition Analysis (CDA) using both a semi-parametric and a non-parametric method to examine the pay gap, over the entire wage distribution, between secure and insecure workers on the basis of perceived job insecurity. Using the 2015 INAPP Survey on...

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Walls and fences : a journey through history and economics

Vernon, Victoria; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2020 - Pre-publication draft July 2020

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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