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Locational Competition versus Cooperation in Labour Markets: An Implicit Contract Reinterpretation

Burda, Michael C; Mertens, Antje - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

clearing under such conditions can lead to wage and income variability. In such cases demand for insurance against regional … systematic shocks. We present evidence that West German and other European experiences are more consistent with an insurance … contract interpretation, while US regional labour markets are characterized by high regional mobility, rendering insurance less …

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The Earnings Dynamics of Immigrant Labour

Schmidt, Christoph M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

Empirical evidence on the labour market performance of immigrants shows that migrant workers suffer from an initial earnings disadvantage compared to observationally equivalent native workers, but that their subsequent earnings tend to increase faster than native earnings. Economists usually try...

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Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel

Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. In some countries where labour markets are...

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What Makes an Entrepreneur and Does it Pay? Native Men, Turks and Other Migrants in Germany

Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong entrepreneurial tradition; self-employed Turks in Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs in the...

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Discrimination in the Swiss Labour Market: an Empirical Analysis

Golder, Stefan M.; Straubhaar, Thomas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

Recent studies have shown that there are significant earnings differentials between immigrants and natives in Switzerland. The goal of this paper is to determine whether these differences can be attributed to diverging socio-economic endowments or to discrimination. We use the well-known...

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Training, Rent-Sharing and Unions

Booth, Alison L; Francesconi, Marco; Zoega, Gylfi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

We investigate two dimensions of investment in general human capital on-the-job: the number of workers trained and the intensity of training for each worker. In the benchmark case, we consider wage and training decisions made by firms in an imperfectly competitive labour market. The benchmark...

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Benefit Duration and Unemployment Entry: Quasi-experimental Evidence for Austria

Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

to elicit higher effort. Dismissal of elderly workers is now easier because more generous unemployment insurance makes …

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Search, Concave Production, and Optimal Firm Size

Smith, Eric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

This paper presents a simple search and bargaining economy in which firms use concave production. Because a firm and worker negotiate over the worker's marginal productivity, the firm's wage is a function of its labour force. Reacting to this wage function, firms choose an excessively large and...

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The Part-Time Pay Penalty for Women in Britain

Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

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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Changes in the Distribution of Male and Female Wages Accounting for Employment Composition Using Bounds

Blundell, Richard William; Gosling, Amanda; Ichimura, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper examines changes in the distribution of wages using bounds to allow for the impact of non-random selection into work. We show that bounds constructed without any economic or statistical assumptions can be informative. Since employment rates in the UK are often low they are not...

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