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This paper investigates the role that idiosyncratic uncertainty plays in shaping social preferences over the degree of labor market flexibility, in a general equilibrium model of dynamic labor demand where the productivity of firms evolves over time as a Geometric Brownian motion...
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of notice is defined as the period an employer has to notify workers in advance of their up-coming dismissal. The wages …
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employment and wage practices of foreign and domestic firms in Brazil, using detailed matched firm-worker panel data... …
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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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local workers in agriculture. We exploit an 8% tax that was assessed on the wages of foreign workers in 2003. If foreign … tax, and their wages should increase, unless their supply is perfectly elastic. On the other hand, if unskilled workers …, foreign or local, are complements to skilled agricultural workers, the demand of the latter should decline, and their wages …
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This paper examines the changes in the wages of different types of workers in different industries during a period in … manufacturing, compared to all other industries. We find that the wages of unskilled workers in agriculture decreased compared to … the other industries, while the wages of skilled workers and other occupations increased. This is consistent with the view …
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structure of wages. Ceteris paribus, a higher share of employees in a firm covered by industry-wide or firm-level contracts is … associated with higher wages. Yet, individual bargaining coverage in a covered firm shows a negative impact both on the wage …
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analyzes the reasons for these differences with matching methods. We simulate the impact of changes in certain parameters such … as wages, apprenticeship system-related factors and allocation of tasks to apprentices on the cost-benefit ratio using …
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compatible with the rentsharingapproach to wage rigidity. Wages adjust to‘market pressure’ but are less flexible when employees … demand their wages, i. e.when they are in a relatively strong bargaining position. …
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We evaluate the effects of international outsourcing and labor taxation on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment in dual labor markets. Outsourcing promotes wage dispersion between the high-skilled and low-skilled workers. Higher domestic low-skilled wage tax, higher payroll tax and lower...
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