As skills of labor-market entrants are usually not directly observed by employers, individuals acquire skill signals …-resource managers to choose. We find that signals in all three studied domains – cognitive skills, social skills, and maturity – have a …. While GPAs and social skills are significant for both genders, males are particularly rewarded for maturity and females for …

We evaluate the effects of international outsourcing and labor taxation on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment … reduce equilibrium unemployment of low-skilled workers both in the presence and absence of labor taxation. In the presence of … outsourcing, wage tax, tax exemption and payroll tax have an ambiguous effect on equilibrium unemployment. Increasing the degree …

minimum wage causes more unemployment, but also leads to more skill formation as unemployment is concentrated on low … gains of more skill formation outweigh the social welfare losses of increased unemployment. Using a highly conservative …

of labor, earning differentials between employees and self-employed workers, unemployment rates and value added per …

Efficiency wages theories argue that the threat of firing, coupled with a high unemployment rate, is a mechanism that … discourages employee shirking in asymmetric information contexts. Our empirical analysis aims to verify the role of unemployment …, we investigate the relationship between worker’s absences and local unemployment rate (at the provincial level). We find …