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Kesternich, Iris; Schumacher, Heiner; Siflinger, Bettina; … - 2020

Survey measures of the reservation wage reflect both the consumption-leisure trade-off and job search concerns (the arrival rate of job offers and the wage distribution). We examine what a survey measure of the reservation wage reveals about labor supply when search concerns are absent. To this...

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Returns to On-the-Job Search and the dispersion of wages

Gottfries, Axel; Teulings, Coen N. - 2017

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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Unemployment effects of the German minimum wage in an equilibrium job search model

Blömer, Maximilian J.; Gürtzgen, Nicole; Pohlan, Laura; … - 2018

We structurally estimate an equilibrium search model using German administrative data and use this for counterfactual analyses of a uniform minimum wage. The model with worker and firm heterogeneity does not restrict the sign of employment effects a priori and allows for different job offer...

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Trade, wages, and productivity

Behrens, Kristian; Mion, Giordano; Murata, Yasusada; … - 2012

firms, and multiple asymmetric regions. Wages, productivity, consumption diversity, and markups across firms and markets are …

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The economic value of cultural diversity : Evidence from US Cities

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Peri, Giovanni - 2004

We use data on wages and rents in different U.S. cities to assess the amenity effects on production and consumption of …

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The work-to-school transition : job displacement and skill upgrading among young high school Dropouts

Bennett, Patrick - 2021

This paper examines how and why returning to education fosters recovery from negative employment shocks among high school dropouts. High school dropout remains a problem, particularly as employment is increasingly skilled over time. Exploiting a policy expanding a Norwegian vocational...

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The labor market impact of undocumented immigrants : job creation vs. job competition

Albert, Christoph - 2017

immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their ineligibility for unemployment benefits and lower wage bargaining …, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter … effect if it targets employed workers because this leads to a risk premium in their wages. Finally, I present empirical …

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Wages and employment : the role of occupational skills

Girsberger, Esther Mirjam; Koomen, Miriam; Krapf, Matthias - 2018

How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and … wages. We find that firms value cognitive skills on average almost twice as much as interpersonal and manual skills, and … they prize complementarity in cognitive and interpersonal skills. The average return to VET skills in hourly wages is 9 …

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Cyclical earnings, career and employment transitions

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Visschers, Ludo; Wiczer, David - 2022

This paper studies the cyclical behaviour of earnings risk and career changes. We document that the procyclical skewness of the earnings growth distribution arises mostly from the earnings changes of employer and occupation switchers. To uncover their relative importance in driving cyclical...

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Coworker networks and the labor market outcomes of displaced workers : evidence from Portugal

Garcia-Louzao, Jose; Silva, Marta - 2023

-level wages and enjoy greater job security although these advantages disappear over time. …

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