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This paper considers the private sector wage earners in Egypt and examine their wage distribution during 1998 - 2012 using Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We first estimate Mincer wage equations both at the mean and at differ ent quantiles of the wage distribution taking into account...
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lower tail. We further document substantial gender differences in average earnings and inequality over the life-cycle. While …
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Using European Community Household Panel data for nine countries for 1996-2001, Iinvestigate the impact of reforms of … employment protection systems on employment and ontemporary jobs for wage and salary workers. Individual fixed effects models are …
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Low-skilled immigrants indirectly affect public finances through their effect on native wages & labor supply. We operationalize this indirect fiscal effect in various models of immigration and the labor market. We derive closed-form expressions for this effect in terms of estimable statistics....
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We use a large linked employer-employee data set to analyze the importance of relativewage positions in the context of individual quit decisions as an inverse measure of jobsatisfaction. Our main findings are: (1) Workers with higher relative wage positionswithin their firms are on average more...
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This paper analyzes the long-term effects of graduating in a recession on earnings, job mobility, and employer …. The results are used to assess the role of job mobility and firm quality in the propagation of shocks for different groups …
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We develop a simple labour turnover model of general training. Upon completion of theirtraining, apprentices are equipped with general skills and they accumulate firm-specificskills by continuing working for their training firm. Job turnover is associated with a loss ofaccumulated firm-specific...
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employment effects of automation. Using data from US commuting zones, our results show that commuting zones that are more exposed … to industrial robots exhibit considerably larger reductions in both employment and wages when their labor markets …
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of fully funded pensions increasesaggregate employment... …
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This paper examines the possibility of unit roots in the presence of endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the procedure of Gil-Alana (2008) for single structural break...
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