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Caseworkers are the main human resources used to provide social services. This paper asks if, and how much, caseworkers matter for the outcomes of unemployed individuals. Using large-scale administrative data, I exploit exogenous variation in unplanned absences among Swiss UI caseworkers. I find...
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knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a Solovian zone where wages increase with … bliss point can only be made better-off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than set … employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase them in rich …
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Using an originally constructed dataset that follows 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to the labor market, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic performance and their labor market income. We exploit the...
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We provide a comprehensive overview of codetermination, i.e., worker representation in firms' governance and management. We cover the institution’s history, implementation, and the best available evidence on its economic impacts. We argue that existing quasi-experimental estimates suggest that...
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(job security, health, subjective job quality, and wages). Worker voice slightly raised firm survival, productivity, and …
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The German law on co-determination at the plant level (Betriebsverfassungsgesetz) stipulates that works councilors are neither to be financially rewarded nor penalized for their activities. This regulation contrasts with publicized instances of excessive payments. The divergence has sparked a...
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1976. I find that regional wages decline between 1962 and 1968, before returning to their pre-shock level 15 years after …. While regional wages recovered, this particular supply shock had persistent distributional effects. By increasing the …
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The vast literature on the effects of immigration on wages and employment is plagued by likely endogeneity and … unemployment and wages in aggregate analysis. We do find, however, evidence of distributional effects when accounting for human …
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normality. For the bottom earners, large income changes are driven equally by hours and wages which is consistent with …
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expectations and wages, and a significantly positive relationship between optimistic bias in job finding expectations and … search and matching model of the labor market. Removing the biases could substantially increase wages and expected lifetime …
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