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technology adopters relative to non-adopters. Depending on the type of technology, we find evidence for improved employment …
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This paper studies the long-term consequences on firms and workers of the credit crunch triggered by the 2007-2008 global financial crisis. Relying on a unique matched bank-employer-employee administrative dataset, we construct a firm-specific credit supply shock and examine firms’ and...
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-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the …
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advantage in the most complex tasks relative to capital, and because the wages of the least skilled workers are sufficiently low … relative to their productivity and the effective cost of capital in low-complexity tasks. Minimum wages and other sources of … higher wages at the bottom make interior automation less likely. Starting with interior automation, a reduction in the cost …
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This paper studies the impact of downward wage rigidity on wage and employment dynamics after the outbreak of major … wage rigidity translated into higher wage growth mainly among workers with wages close to the floors. Consequently, these … workers experienced a substantial and highly persistent increase in the probability of non-employment but only if they were …
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distribution; and a permanent positive effect on full-time employment. …
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In advanced countries in particular, the mental well-being of adolescents and young adults is gaining increased amount of attention. Yet little is known about lifetime labor market costs attributable to mental disorders nor the related heterogeneity by the age of onset of psychiatric conditions....
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with high likelihood of being outsourced. And, when comparing wages of direct and outsourced employees, it is possible to … notice that outsourced (with high likelihood) face a decrease in their wages, in most of the situations examined. …
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mothers. Hourly wages, however, increase with WfH take-up among fathers, but not among mothers unless they change employer … selection into paid employment due to changes in unobserved characteristics or preferences does not affect the magnitude of the …
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To obtain a more complete understanding of the persisting gender earnings gap in Germany, this paper investigates both the cross-sectional and biographical dimension of gender inequalities. Using an Oaxaca Blinder decomposition, we show that the gender gap in annual earnings is largely driven by...
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