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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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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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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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, search for employers, and residual wage shocks to account for these life cycle wage dynamics. We highlight the importance of … largest part of life cycle wage dynamics. It accounts for 50% of average wage growth, 50% of rising differences between gender …
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The canonical supply-demand model of the wage returns to skill has been extremely influential; however, it has faced …
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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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ascertain the contributions of worker, firm, match, and job-title heterogeneity to the union wage gap. Of these the most …
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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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