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Collective Labor Supply of Native Dutch and Immigrant Households in the Netherlands
Klaveren, Chris van; van Praag, B.M.S; Maassen van den … - 2021
that the bargaining power of women in more traditional households is relatively low, but our estimation results do not …
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Restrictive Immigration Policy in Germany : Pains and Gains Foregone?
Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Geis, Wido; Kohler, Wilhelm - 2021
Many European countries restrict immigration from new EU member countries. The rationale is to avoid adverse wage and employment effects. We quantify these effects for Germany. Following Borjas (2003), we estimate a structural model of labor demand, based on elasticities of substitution between...
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The Consequences of Being Different - Statistical Discrimination and the School-to-Work Transition
Mueller, Barbara - 2011
, if labor relations cannot be terminated in the short term and wages are fixed over a certain period. In this paper we use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130101
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Temporary Employment, Job Flows and Productivity : A Tale of Two Reforms
Cappellari, Lorenzo - 2011
We investigate the effects of two reforms of temporary employment using panel data on Italian firms. We exploit variation in their implementation across regions and sectors for identification. We find that the reform of apprenticeship contracts increased job turnover and induced the substitution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122251
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Slow to Hire, Quick to Fire : Employment Dynamics with Asymmetric Responses to News
Ilut, Cosmin L. - 2017
Concave hiring rules imply that firms respond more to bad shocks than to good shocks. They provide a unified explanation for several seemingly unrelated facts about employment growth in macro and micro data. In particular, they generate countercyclical movement in both aggregate conditional...
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Industry-Level Labour Demand Elasticities Across the Eurozone : Will There Be Any Gain after the Pain of Internal Devaluation?
Adam, Antonis - 2014
In this paper we estimate disaggregated labour demand equations using panel data involving observations across time (1970-2007) for twenty-three industries across eleven Euro area countries. By using the EU KLEMS database, which provides data across countries, we provide industry-by-industry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051276
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Labor Reallocation in Response to Trade Reform
Menezes-Filho, Naercio A.; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2021
Tracking individual workers across employers and industries after Brazil's trade liberalization in the 1990s shows that foreign import penetration and tariff reductions trigger worker displacements but that neither comparative-advantage industries nor exporters absorb displaced workers for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317183
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Minimum Wages and the Labor Market Effects of Immigration
Edo, Anthony - 2017
We exploit the non-linearity in the level of minimum wages across US States created by the coexistence of federal and … state regulations to investigate how minimum wages affect the labor market impact of immigration. We find that the effects ….S. States with low minimum wages (i.e., where the federal minimum wage is binding). The results are robust to instrumenting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012951556
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Optimal Wage Redistribution in the Presence of Adverse Selection in the Labor Market
Bastani, Spencer - 2014
In this paper we allude to a novel role played by the non-linear income tax system in the presence of adverse selection in the labor market due to asymmetric information between workers and firms. We show that an appropriate choice of the tax schedule enables the government to affect the wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047321
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Wages and Employment : The Role of Occupational Skills
Girsberger, Esther Mirjam - 2018
How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and … estimate a search and matching model for workers with a VET degree. Workers differ in interpersonal, cognitive and manual … wages. We find that firms value cognitive skills on average almost twice as much as interpersonal and manual skills, and …
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