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In this paper we derive a structural measure for labor market density based on the Ellison and Glasear (1997) "Index for industry concentration". This labor market density measure serves as a proxy for the number of workers that can reach a certain work area within a reasonal amount of traveling...
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In this paper we demonstrate that intra-industry trade (or FDI)between identical countries could produce theobserved … deterioration in the relative wages of unskilled workers.This involves a model of North-Northintegration through either increased … trade flows or increased MNE-based production. Our motivation in this regardis arguments to the effect that trade cannot be …
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an increase in wages. Offshoring is negatively related to the prevalence of wage markups. This also holds for the …
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, effectively ignoring the fact that trade liberalization affects not only wages but also employment opportunities. In this paper we … trade liberalization on the return to education taking into account both changes in wages and employment. The results show …. These studies have typically estimated the return to education in terms of changes in wages rather than employment …
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This research documents changes in employment and wages in the Netherlands for different types of workers. We compare … 2017 to 2023 using regression-adjusted wages to make sure changes in composition of the workforce do not influence our … employment has been growing by 2 percent in the period 2017-2023, of which 1.8 percent has been due to additional workers finding …
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This paper analyzes the determinants of lay-offs, job-to-job movements and totalseparations with a unique data set that combines information on individual firmsand their workers. We are in particular interested in whether the lay-offpolicy of firms can explain the relatively high level of...
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This paper characterizes the equilibrium for a large class of search models with two-sided heterogeneity and on-the-job search. Besides the well-known congestion externalities, we show that on-the-job search in combination with monopsonistic wage setting without commitment creates a...
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the labor supply side (workers' bargaining power). But exporting firms where search frictions are inducing wages to vary …
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relationship between wages on the one hand and worker and job type indiceson the other. However, for five European countries and … well. Allowing for unobserved heterogeneity and measurement error, we findthat reservation wages are 25% lower than they …
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