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We examine the association between brain types and wages using the UK Behavioural Study dataset for the period 2011 to 2013 (four waves). By applying Empathising-Systemising Theory (E-S), the estimations suggest that, for men and women, systemising traits are associated with higher wage returns...
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We develop a procedure for adjudicating between models of firm wage-setting conduct. Using data on workers' choice sets and decisions over real jobs from a U.S. job search platform, we first estimate workers' rankings over firms' non-wage amenities. We document three key findings: 1) On average,...
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security. We leverage rich administrative linked employer-employee data from Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and … are strikingly similar across countries: increasing labour market concentration by 10% reduces wages by 0.19% in Germany … Germany and 2.34% in Portugal. While not affecting this probability in Italy and Spain, labour market concentration …
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similar trend in Germany. Based on comprehensive, long-run administrative data for the years 1975 to 2010, we use a set of … reveal similarities between Germany and the U.S. in terms of some declining fortunes of the young. However, whereas in the U ….S. college educated workers have been affected, the results indicate that in Germany the medium-skilled and low-skilled have been …
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study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and …
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We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are … compared to Germany and, in particular, Denmark. As a consequence, immigration has a much larger effect on the unemployment … rate in Germany and Denmark, while the wage effects are larger in the UK. Moreover, the elasticity of substitution between …
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workers? Focusing on the large, sudden and unanticipated wave of migration from East to West Germany after German …
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into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s …
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labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries …
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We expand Acemoglu and Pischke's seminal model of training in imperfect labor markets by including the system of collective wage bargaining and the components of firms' training costs. Thus we can adapt their model to institutional changes that occurred since the 1990s. The model and the...
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