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manufacturing. Earnings losses are larger for individuals with low initial wages, low initial tenure, and low attachment to the …
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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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establishment growth, vacancy filling and entry wages, we calibrate a model with directed search and ex-ante heterogeneous workers … response of vacancy filling to firm-level wages. We discuss the implications of this finding as well as potential resolutions. …
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wages and workers cannot commit to not searching on the job. The resulting progression of wages (from firms paying just … growth are negatively correlated with initial wages. …
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setting wages and determining work amenities. In the administrative data, we causally examine through which channels unions … depending on the age at which workers enroll. In addition, we show that focusing on a restricted set of outcomes, such as wages …
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-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the …
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The need to give incentives is usually absent in the literature on minimum wages. However, especially in the service … consequently employment. Therefore, the present article presents a new perspective on reasons for why minimum wages often have no …
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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 …
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leads to shorter non-employment duration and higher reemployment wages, plausibly driven by on-the-job search. Using …
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In this paper we investigate the recent fall in unemployment, and the rise in part-time work and labour market participation amongst prime-aged Germans. We show that unemployment fell because the Hartz reforms induced a large fraction of the long-term unemployed to deregister as jobseekers....
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