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the labor market. Its impact on employment, wages and wealth depends crucially on the design of immigration policy …
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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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prior estimates by including ripple effects beyond the wages earned or taxes paid directly by migrants. The sharp reduction …
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wages. We explore a reform that increased the protection of open-ended contracts for a well-defined subset of firms, while … leaving it unchanged for other firms. The causal evidence points to a reduction in wages for new open-ended and fixed …
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This study uses restricted-access employer-level microdata from the National Compensation Survey to examine the relationship between automatic enrollment and employee compensation. By boosting plan participation, automatic enrollment has the potential to increase employer defined contribution...
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additional information contained in profits, which complements the information from wages and transitions typically used in …
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Decentralised bargaining is an important wage setting mechanism that promotes wage flexibility which in turn determines how earnings and employment are affected by economic shocks. We investigate the impact of the 2011 industrial relations reform in Greece that allowed firms with less than 50...
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understand better the nature of RS in the country: it involves an element of risk sharing, as wages also decrease when profits … fall; RS is lower in regions with more latent competition from rural workers; higher minimum wages tend to reduce RS; and …, while employer labour market power reduces wages, it increases RS. Overall, despite its importance, RS in China is smaller …
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Consider a labour market with heterogeneous workers. Firms recruit workers by fixing a hiring standard and a wage offer simultaneously. A more demanding hiring standard necessitates a better wage offer in order to attract enough qualified applicants. As a result, an efficiency wage effect is...
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wages increase by about 45%. The results are based on multiple instrumental variables, including firm-specific international … country: RS is weaker in firms with more women and less educated workers; RS involves an element of risk sharing, as wages … wages tend to reduce RS; and, while employer labour market power reduces wages, it increases RS. Overall, despite its …
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