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We extract estimation results on the Mincer earnings function from four earlier studies and add new results from a recent dataset. We analyse differences related to differences in earnings concepts, in sampling frame and differences among studies that cannot be explained. Jointly, the studies...
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wage and employment structure? Can it contribute shaping the dynamics of wealth-to-income ratio? To answer these questions … abroad and forces domestic firms to innovate more. Hence, the employment share of production workers shrinks, while the …
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care about their relative wages, and show that the presence of a relative wage concern could help generation a positive …
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The skill premium has increased significantly in the United States in the last five decades. During the same period, individual wage risk has also increased. This paper proposes a mechanism through which a rise in wage risk increases the skill premium. Intuitively, a rise in uninsured wage risk...
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micro-data for France, Germany, the UK and the US, we study their decisions to migrate to one of the four countries using a … Multinomial Choice framework. Our estimates confirm a number of conventional results such as positive effects of wages and … immigrant networks and negative effects of unemployment rates. In addition, we find that employment protection, union coverage …
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. We solve for the labor market equilibrium, finding that wages increase with job security for at least all firms in the … distribution, workers can take wage cuts to move to more stable employment. …
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A wide class of models with On-the-Job Search (OJS) predicts that workers gradually select into better-paying jobs. We develop a simple methodology to test predictions implied by OJS using two sources of identification: (i) time-variation in job-finding rates and (ii) the time since the last...
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moments of the distributions of earnings, employment and wage shocks across individuals. Our main finding is that …
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panel, we investigate to what extent personality traits, human capital, and the employment history influence the start … the gender difference. In contrast, the Big Five model and the current employment state have effects in the opposite … employment status as men. …
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We analyze the impact of the UK national minimum wage (NMW) on the employment of young workers. The previous literature …, we find a significant and negative employment effect for male workers at 21, which we believe to be an anticipation … effect on employment of young workers, with this effect possibly occurring already well in advance of reaching the threshold …
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