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profiles. Our study also explains the willingness of immigrants to accept jobs at wages that seem unacceptable to natives …
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Human capital can depreciate if skills are unused. But estimating human capital depreciation is challenging, as worker skills are difficult to measure and less productive workers are more likely to spend time in non-employment. We overcome these challenges with new administrative data on...
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We study the importance of the extended family – the dynasty – for the persistence in inequality across generations. We use data including the entire Swedish population, linking four generations. This data structure enables us to identify parents’ siblings and cousins, their spouses, and...
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identification. On the return to work after the birth, mothers' wages drop by 3 to 5.7 per cent per year of leave. We find negative …
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By using a model of trade union behaviour Grüner (2010) argues that the introduction of the European Monetary Union (EMU) led to lower wage growth and lower unemployment in participating countries. Following Grüner's model, monetary centralization lets the central bank react less flexibly to...
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Naturalization may be a relevant policy instrument affecting immigrant integration in host-country labor markets. We study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and exploit a reform of naturalization rules in an instrumental...
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Using rich linked employer-employee data for (West) Germany between 1996 and 2014, we analyze the most important drivers of the recent rise in German wage dispersion and pin down the relative contribution of plant and worker characteristics. Moreover, we separately investigate the drivers of...
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establishment growth, vacancy filling and entry wages, we calibrate a model with directed search and ex-ante heterogeneous workers … response of vacancy filling to firm-level wages. We discuss the implications of this finding as well as potential resolutions …
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effect on the multinational wage premium: Foreign multinationals pay lower wages than German multinationals if the ultimate … multinationals and domestic multinationals pay wages of similar size, with both types of firms paying a premium relative to other … local firms. To provide a rationale for this pattern, we develop a theoretical model in which wages are firm-specific and …
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. The value of this state is therefore a fundamental determinant of wages and, in turn, labor supply and job creation. We … measure the effect of changes in the value of nonemployment on wages in existing jobs and among job switchers. Our quasi … document that wages are insensitive to UI benefit levels: point estimates imply a wage response of less than $0.01 per $1.00 UI …
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