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In this article, I study the effect of worker heterogeneities on wages and unemployment within the context of a directed search model. A worker's productivity in a given firm depends both on their type and on a worker-firm specific component. Firms advertise unconditional wage offers, and hire...
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We estimate a model of the joint participation and mobility along with the individuals' wage formation in France. Our …
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, labor force participation of male workers of different skills has fallen while their working hours have increased. …
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We analyze the determinants of participation (whether to study) and schooling (where and what to study) in a public … role for travel costs: they hardly affect the participation decisions, but have a strong impact on the schooling decisions …. In addition, high school background plays an important role in both the participation and schooling decisions. To …
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generates greater investment efficiency, romantic matching generates greater allocative efficiency, since more high ability … educational investments and labour force participation based on matching regimes. …
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inequality leads to more or less group participation. Using survey data from rural Tanzania we find that inequality at the … 'subjectively' defined. However, when we disaggregate groups by type of access rule, we find that inequality decreases participation … in open access groups when there are wide disparities at the bottom of the distribution, while it increases participation …
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in wages and participation rates. Rather than resorting to moral hazard problems related to unobservable effort, like in … exacerbate lower female participation in the labour market. Hence, both effects lead to a gendered equilibrium with large gaps …
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studies. We relate the results to the relevant level of female labour force participation. …
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What happens when a previously uncovered labour market is regulated? We exploit the introduction of a minimum wage in South Africa and variation in the intensity of this law to identify increases in wages for domestic workers and find no statistically significant effects on the intensive or...
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Using several unique data sets on wage agreements at both the firm- and the industry-levels in France, we examine the impact of typical European wage-setting institutions on the form and the degree of wage rigidity. We highlight different stylized facts concerning wage stickiness. First, in...
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