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Impacts of outsourcing on wage : new evidence for the Brazilian debate
Campos, André Gambier - 2016
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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Does pay transparency affect the gender wage gap? : evidence from Austria
Gulyas, Andreas; Seitz, Sebastian; Sinha, Sourav - 2021
female wages, thus leaving the gender wage gap unchanged. The effects are precisely estimated and we rule out that the policy …
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When the minimum wage really bites hard : impact on top earners and skill supply
Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2020
-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012285605
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Union-nonunion wage gap : some unexpected findings in Brazilian labour market
Campos, André Gambier; Moura, Ana Carolina - 2017
This paper presents new empirical evidence about the wage gap between union and nonunion workers in Brazil. In principle, due to the rules governing union organization/mobilization, no one should rationally expect such gap. However, as this paper reveals, there is empirical evidence of its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012060370
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Dismissal protection and long-term sickness absence : first evidence from Germany
Gürtzgen, Nicole; Hiesinger, Karolin - 2020
This paper analyses the causal effects of weaker dismissal protection on the incidence of long-term sickness ( six weeks). We exploit a German policy change, which shifted the threshold exempting small establishments from dismissal protection from five to ten workers. Using administrative data,...
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Mandated sick pay : coverage, utilization, and welfare effects
Maclean, Catherine; Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2021
This paper evaluates how sick pay mandates operate at the job level in the United States. Using the National Compensation Survey and difference-in-differences models, we estimate their impact on coverage rates, sick leave use, labor costs, and non-mandated fringe benefits. Sick pay mandates...
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Tarifbindung und die ökonomische Rationalität von Lohnrigiditäten
Franz, Wolfgang; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2000
can result from contracts, implicit contracts, from efficiency wages and from insider-outsider behaviour. Based on a … survey of 801 firms strong support has been found for explanations based on collective wage agreements and on efficency wages …
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Staggered contracts and unemployment during recessions
Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Díez-Catalán, Luis; … - 2024
wage rigidity translated into higher wage growth mainly among workers with wages close to the floors. Consequently, these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014566234
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When protection becomes exploitation : the impact of firing costs on present-biased employees
Englmaier, Florian; Fahn, Matthias; Glogowski, Ulrich; … - 2023
offer a dynamic contract with low early-career wages, an unattractive intermediate qualification stage, and high end …-of-career wages. Upon reaching the qualification stage, present-biased employees exchange future wages for immediate rewards on an … alternative career path – a choice unanticipated by their previous, na¨ıve, self. Thus, employers never pay high future wages …
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Wage bargaining and the employment contracts act
Beaumont, Craig; Jolly, Peter - 1993
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