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Wages, human capital, and structural transformation

Herrendorf, Berthold; Schoellman, Todd - 2017

Average wages are considerably lower in agriculture than in the other sectors. We document this fact for thirteen countries ranging from rich (Canada, U.S.) to poor (India, Indonesia). We develop a measure of human capital that accounts for the selection of workers with different unobserved...

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Do medical doctors respond to economic incentives?

Andreassen, Leif; Di Tommaso, Maria Laura; Strøm, Steinar - 2012

A longitudinal analysis of married physicians labor supply is carried out on Norwegian data from 1997 to 1999. The model utilized for estimation implies that physicians can choose among 10 different job packages which are a combination of part time/full time, hospital/primary care,...

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How wage announcements affect job search : a field experiment

Belot, Michèle; Kircher, Philipp; Muller, Paul - 2018

We study how job seekers respond to wage announcements by assigning wages randomly to pairs of otherwise similar vacancies in a large number of professions. High wage vacancies attract more interest, in contrast with much of the evidence based on observational data. Some applicants only show...

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None for the road? : stricter drink driving laws and road accidents

Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan G. - 2021

Reducing drink drive limits is generally regarded an effective strategy to save lives on the road. Using several new administrative data sources, we evaluate the effect of a stricter limit introduced in Scotland in 2014. This reduction had no effect on drink driving and road collisions....

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Do remote workers deter neighborhood crime? : evidence from the rise of working from home

Matheson, Jesse; McConnell, Brendon; Rockey, James; … - 2024

In this paper, we provide the first evidence of the effect of the shift to remote work on crime. We examine the impact … of the rise of working from home (WFH) on neighborhood-level burglary rates, exploiting geographically granular crime … can entirely offset the crime-reducing benefit of a given neighborhood's WFH potential. This is consistent with the …

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Financial incentives to work : conceptions and results in Great Britain, Ireland and Canada

Ochel, Wolfgang - 2001

Some English speaking countries provide employment-conditional tax credits and benefits with a view to increasing employment and improving family income in the low wage brackets. This article deals with Great Britain's Working Families' Tax Credit, Ireland's Back to Work Allowance and her Family...

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Native welfare losses from high skilled immigration

Kemnitz, Alexander (contributor) - 2008

This paper explores the effects of high skilled immigration to a host country with unionized low skilled labor and an unemployment insurance scheme. We show that such immigration can create a negative immigration surplus due to adverse effects on low skilled employment, provided that fiscal...

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Outsourcing, unemployment and welfare policy

Keuschnigg, Christian (contributor); … - 2008

The paper investigates the consequences of outsourcing of labor intensive activities to low-wage economies. This trend challenges the two basic functions of the welfare state, redistribution and social insurance when private unemployment insurance markets are missing. The main results are: (i)...

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Low skill but high volatility?

Buch, Claudia M.; Pierdzioch, Christian - 2009

Globalization may impose a double-burden on low-skilled workers. On the one hand, the relative supply of low-skilled labor increases. This suppresses wages of low-skilled workers and/or increases their unemployment rates. On the other hand, low-skilled workers typically face more limited access...

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Comparative advantage and skill-specific unemployment

Larch, Mario; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - 2009

We introduce unemployment and endogenous selection of workers into different skill-classes in a trade model with two sectors and heterogeneous firms. This allows us to study the distributional consequences and the skill-specific unemployment effects of trade liberalization. We show that the...

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