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The paper estimates how wages respond to changes in regional unemployment using detailed Swedish micro data. The study … is set in an economy with close to complete union coverage where real wages have grown continuously in all parts of the … estimated elasticity of wages. Wage adjustments are larger for employees with high unemployment risk and for new hires entering …
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underestimate wages elsewhere. We document this anchoring bias by eliciting workers' beliefs in a representative survey in Germany …-wage firms, would not be viable at current wages. …
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No matter the cause, recessions are usually accompanied by some combination of job loss, hiring freezes, wage cuts or hours reductions. In a rapidly evolving economic crisis there is a need for timely information to assess labour market performance and develop strategies to address the problems...
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to employment, wages, prices and household well-being. The meta-analysis finds that most results on employment and wages … are non-significant. When significant, decreases in employment and wages are more likely to occur than increases with …
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wages of displaced German workers after they returned to work. We also present a simple new method to decompose the wage … wages of displaced workers after their return to work. Women experienced smaller wage losses than men. For both sexes, over …-displacement wages. …
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female workers come through longer unemployment instead of higher losses in wages. …
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economic conditions at the time of hiring on future wages. Measured by the labor's user cost, the price of labor is …
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In this paper we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage, employment and displacement. We start with an overview of the measurement of offshoring, organizing our discussion around the three key elements of offshoring: that it involves intermediate inputs for...
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to maintain their real wages by reducing labor demand still further. Furthermore, we argue inflationary pressures have …
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In this paper, we analyze how forced displacements caused by violent conflicts affect the wages of displaced workers in … country. Using data from the Quality of Life Survey (2011-2014), we analyze differences in wages between those who were forced … find that forced displacement decreases between 6% and the 22% the wages of males, and between 17% and 37% the wages of …
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