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Vacancy durations and entry wages : evidence from linked vacancy-employer-employee data

Kettemann, Andreas; Müller, Andreas; Zweimüller, Josef - 2018

This paper explores the relationship between the duration of a vacancy and the starting wage of a new job, using unusually informative data comprising detailed information on vacancies, the establishments posting the vacancies and the workers eventually filling the vacancies. We find that...

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Delegation in hiring : evidence from a two-sided audit

Cowgill, Bo; Perkowski, Patryk - 2024

Firms increasingly delegate job screening to third-party recruiters, who must not only satisfy employers’ demand for different types of candidates, but also manage yield by anticipating candidates’ likelihood of accepting offers. We study how recruiters balance these objectives in a novel,...

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Delegating recruitment under asymmetric information

Sengupta, Sarbajit - 2002

Recruitment is often delegated to senior employees. Delegated recruitment, however, is vulnerable to moral hazard … because senior employees may avoid recruiting the best candidates who could threaten their future seniority. We find that … relates to the candidates type . Delegation is then superior to direct (owner) recruitment and offering tenure or guaranteed …

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Subsidizing extra jobs : promoting employment by taming the unions

Knabe, Andreas (contributor); Schöb, Ronnie (contributor) - 2007

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Firm heterogeneity and the labour market effects of trade liberalisation

Egger, Hartmut (contributor); Kreickemeier, Udo (contributor) - 2007

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Monetary regimes and the co-ordination of wage setting

Holden, Steinar - 2001

International comparisons show that countries with co-ordinated wage setting generally have lower unemployment than countries with less co-ordinated wage setting. This paper argues that the monetary regime may affect whether co-ordination among many wage setters is feasible. A strict monetary...

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Do excessive wage increases raise imports? : theory and evidence

Malley, James R.; Moutos, Thomas - 2001

This paper uses a model of trade in vertically differentiated products to examine the effects of excessive wage increases (i.e. above productivity) on the volume of commodity imports. The model predicts that for commodities, in which the country has comparative advantage in high quality...

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Union wage setting and international trade

Egger, Hartmut; Etzel, Daniel - 2012

This paper sets up a general oligopolistic equilibrium model with two countries that differ in the centralization of union wage setting. Being interested in the consequences of openness, we show that, in the short-run, trade increases welfare and employment in both locations, and it raises...

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Labor tax progressivity, wage determination, and the relative wage effect

Brunello, Giorgio; Sonedda, Daniela - 2002

We model a two sector economy with unionized labor markets and competitive product markets, where workers and unions care about their relative wages, and show that the presence of a relative wage concern could help generation a positive relationship between tax progressivity and wage pressure.

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When the union hurts the workers: a positive analysis of immigration policy

Bellettini, Giorgio (contributor); … - 2005

This paper studies the determinants of immigration policy in an economy with entrepreneurs and workers where a trade union has monopoly power over wages. The presence of the union leads a benevolent government to implement a high level of immigration and induces a welfare loss not only from an...

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