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Outsourcing of unionized firms and the impacts of labour market policy reforms
Koskela, Erkki (contributor); Schöb, Ronnie (contributor) - 2008
This paper shows that outsourcing of parts of the workforce in unionized firms leads to wage moderation and as long as … the share of the outsourced workforce is not too large, this wage-moderation effect on domestic employment outweighs the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003748348
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Worker beliefs about outside options
Jäger, Simon; Roth, Christopher; Roussille, Nina; … - 2022
underestimate wages elsewhere. We document this anchoring bias by eliciting workers’ beliefs in a representative survey in Germany …-wage firms, would not be viable at current wages. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012798121
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Biased expectations and labor market outcomes : evidence from German survey data and implications for the East-West wage gap
Balleer, Almut; Duernecker, Georg; Forstner, Susanne; … - 2023
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014247564
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Spatial sorting : why New York, Los Angeles and Detroit Attract the greatest minds as well as the unskilled
Eeckhout, Jan; Pinheiro, Roberto; Schmidheiny, Kurt - 2010
density. Using CPS data on wages and Census data on house prices, we find that this technology is consistent with the observed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008797788
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The role of trade and offshoring in the determination of relative wages and child labour
Cigno, Alessandro; Giovannetti, Giorgia; Sabani, Laura - 2017
Incorporating family decisions in a two-period.model of the world economy, we predict that trade liberalization raises the skill premium and reduces child labour in developing countries where the adult labour force is sufficiently well educated to attract production activities from abroad that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011669566
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Adjusting to transitory shocks : worker impact, firm channels, and (lack of) income support
Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Silva, Joana - 2023
data from Ecuador, analysis finds that firms do not adjust workforce composition, but they permanently reduce capital which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014289765
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Multinational wage premium and wage dynamics
Orefice, Gianluca; Sly, Nicholas; Toubal, Farid - 2015
-shaped pattern in worker-level wages surrounding the time their employer is acquired by a foreign firm, with a dip in earnings … explain why prior evidence found no impact of foreign ownership on worker-level wages. Accounting for the pre …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010496986
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Vacancy durations and entry wages : evidence from linked vacancy-employer-employee data
Kettemann, Andreas; Müller, Andreas; Zweimüller, Josef - 2018
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931499
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Inflation and wage expectations of firms and employees
Buchheim, Lukas; Link, Sebastian; Möhrle, Sascha - 2024
We study the link between expected inflation and wages using novel panel data from German firms and employees. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015061156
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011645910