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Immigration, unemployment and wages : new causality evidence from the United Kingdom
Tunali, Çiğdem Börke; Fidrmuc, Jan; Campos, Nauro - 2017 - This version: April 4, 2017
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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How do migrants choose their destination country? : an analysis of institutional determinants
Geis, Wido; Übelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - 2008
Multinomial Choice framework. Our estimates confirm a number of conventional results such as positive effects of wages and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003805994
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Asymmetries in earnings, employment and wage risk in Great Britain
Angelopulos, Kōnstantinos; Lazarakis, Spyridon; … - 2017
This paper examines the relationship between idiosyncratic risk in labour income and fluctuations in aggregate labour market quantities for Great Britain. We use data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) for 1991-2008 and from the BHPS sub-sample of Understanding Society for 2010-2014....
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Privatizing disability insurance
Seibold, Arthur; Seitz, Sebastian; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2022
Public disability insurance (DI) programs in many countries face pressure to reduce their generosity in order to remain sustainable. In this paper, we investigate the welfare effects of giving a larger role to private insurance markets in the face of public DI cuts. Exploiting a unique reform...
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Physical disability and labor market discrimination : evidence from a field experiment
Bellemare, Charles; Goussé, Marion; Lacroix, Guy; … - 2018
We investigate the determinants and extent of labor market discrimination toward people with physical disabilities using a large scale field experiment. Applications were randomly sent to 1477 private firms advertising open positions. We find that average callback rates of disabled and...
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Distribution and growth in an economy with limited needs
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001
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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The effects of high school peers' gender on college major, college performance and income
Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2016
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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What does codetermination do?
Jäger, Simon; Noy, Shakked; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021
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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Voice at work
Harju, Jarkko; Jäger, Simon; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021
(job security, health, subjective job quality, and wages). Worker voice slightly raised firm survival, productivity, and …
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Wage determination in the shadow of the law : the case of works councilors in Germany
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2021
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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