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Vacancy Durations and Entry Wages : Evidence from Linked Vacancy-Employer-Employee Data

Kettemann, Andreas - 2019

This paper explores the relationship between the duration of a vacancy and the starting wage of a new job, using unusually informative data comprising detailed information on vacancies, the establishments posting the vacancies and the workers eventually filling the vacancies. We find that...

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Dual Labour Markets Revisited

Bentolila, Samuel - 2019

This paper provides an overview of recent research on dual labour markets. Theoretical and empirical contributions on the labour-market effects of dual employment protection legislation are revisited, as well as factors behind its resilience and policies geared towards correcting its negative...

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Internal Labor Markets : A Worker Flow Approach

Huitfeldt, Ingrid; Kostol, Andreas; Nimczik, Jan; … - 2021

This paper develops a new method to study how workers’ career and wage profiles are shaped by internal labor markets (ILM) and job hierarchies in firms. Our paper tackles the conceptual challenge of organizing jobs within firms into hierarchy levels by proposing a data-driven ranking method...

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Workplace Segregation and the Labour Market Performance of Immigrants

Willis, Sébastien - 2022

Immigrants are more likely to have conationals as colleagues, however the consequences of such workplace segregation is an open question. I study the effect of the conational share in an immigrant’s first job on subsequent labour market outcomes using register data from Germany. I instrument...

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Can the Labor Demand Curve Explain Job Polarization?

Peichl, Andreas; Popp, Martin - 2022

In recent decades, many industrialized economies have witnessed a pattern of job polarization. While shifts in labor demand, namely routinization or offshoring, constitute conventional explanations for job polarization, there is little research on whether shifts in labor supply along the labor...

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Is There Job Polarization in Developing Economies? A Review and Outlook

Martins-Neto, Antonio; Mathew, Nanditha; Mohnen, Pierre; … - 2022

This paper analyses the evidence of job polarization in developing and emerging economies. We carry out an extensive literature review, revealing that job polarization in these countries is only incipient compared to other advanced economies. We then examine the possible moderating aspects...

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Betting on Diversity – Occupational Segregation and Gender Stereotypes

Fischbacher, Urs; Kübler, Dorothea; Stüber, Robert - 2023

Many occupations and industries are highly segregated with respect to gender. This segregation could be due to perceived job-specific productivity differences between men and women. It could also result from the belief that single-gender teams perform better. We investigate the two explanations...

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Socially-tolerable discrimination

Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2008

History is replete with overt discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, ethnicity, marital status … discrimination are not equally tolerable. For example, discrimination based on immutable or prohibitively unalterable characteristics … driven by either racial (gender or ethnic) discrimination or generational discrimination (i.e., young versus old). When the …

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Political Culture and Discrimination in Contests

Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef; Nitzan, Shmuel - 2010

objective of this study is to analyze the effect of political culture and of valuation asymmetry on discrimination between the … discrimination is an endogenous variable that characterizes the mechanism allocating the prize. We consider situations under which … effect of changes in the political culture and in valuation asymmetry on the designer's preferred discrimination between the …

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Discrimination in dynamic procurement design with learning-by-doing

Barbosa, Klenio; Boyer, Pierre C. - 2012

paper studies the long-run impact of procurement discrimination on market structure and future competition in industries …

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