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We document substantial cross-sectional heterogeneity of German establishments’ real wage cyclicality over the business … wages. We estimate a negative connection between establishments’ wage cyclicality and their employment cyclicality, thereby …
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Transition patterns from school to work differ considerably across OECD countries. Some countries exhibit high youth unemployment rates, which can be considered an indicator of the difficulty facing young people trying to integrate into the labor market. At the same time, education is a...
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transitions between labor status or jobs, whereas for those at the top, earnings changes are mainly induced by wage rate growth …
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This paper establishes new evidence on the cyclical behaviour of household income risk in Great Britain and assesses the role of social insurance policy in mitigating against this risk. We address these issues using the British Household Panel Survey (1991-2008) by decomposing stochastic...
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labor demand. Tightening eligibility to short-time work benefits tends to reduce the wage while the impact on unemployment …
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firm with stochastic product demand and hiring cost (= irreversible specific investments). There is wage bargaining between …
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We analyse the implications of habit formation relating to wages in a multi-period efficiency-wage model. If employees …. Greater intensity does not necessarily have the same consequences, because wage adjustments counteract the initial level … impact. The firm's response additionally depends on the wage-dependency of dismissal costs since such costs make an …
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We present an overview of models of long-term self-enforcing labor contracts in which risk sharing is the dominant motive for contractual solutions. A base model is developed which is sufficiently general to encompass the two-agent problem central to most of the literature, including variable...
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This paper provides a model that can account for the almost uniform staggering of wage contracts in some countries as …
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We evaluate the effects of outsourcing and wage solidarity on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment in a … heterogeneous labour market, where wages are determined by a monopoly labour union. We find that outsourcing promotes the wage … dispersion between the high-skilled and low-skilled workers. When the labour union adopts a solidaristic wage policy, it will …
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