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The impact of employment protection on the industrial wage structure

Heywood, John S.; O'Mahony, Mary; Siebert, William S.; … - 2018

more need for layoffs and labour flexibility have lower wages in countries where stricter EPL protects workers from layoffs …-2005, particularly for wages of unskilled workers. However, we also find that where workers are well organised, they can take advantage … of EPL to secure higher wages. …

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Temporary contracts and monopsony power in the UK labour market

Tabasso, Domenico - 2011

wages and a simultaneous increase in travel-to-work distance. Nonetheless, when unobserved characteristics are accounted for …

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Big fish in small pond or small fish in big pond? : An analysis of job mobility

Cardoso, Ana Rute (contributor) - 2005

economic analysis. I check this assertion by analyzing wages and status within the firm, with status measured as the worker …

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Job search and hiring with two-sided limited information about workseekers' skills

Carranza Noguera, Eliana; Garlick, Robert; Orkin, Kate; … - 2021

We present field experimental evidence that limited information about workseekers' skills distorts both firm and workseeker behavior. Assessing workseekers' skills, giving workseekers their assessment results, and helping them to credibly share the results with firms increases workseekers'...

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Occupational match quality and gender over two cohorts

Addison, John T.; Chen, Liwen; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - 2017

Job mobility, especially early in a career, is an important source of wage growth. This effect is typically attributed to heterogeneity in the quality of employee-employer matches, with individuals learning of their abilities and discovering the tasks at which they are most productive through...

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The labour market effect of immigration : accounting for effective immigrant work experience in New Zealand

Tse, Michael M. H.; Maani, Sholeh A. - 2016

This guide, updated for the 2016-17 job market season, describes the U.S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and offers advice on conducting an academic job search. It provides data, reports findings from published papers, describes practical details, and includes links to online...

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The effect of the Hartz labor market reforms on post-unemployment wages, sorting, and matching

Woodcock, Simon D. - 2020

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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Doing well in reforming the labour market? : recent trends in job stability and wages in Germany

Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Jaenichen, Ursula; Rothe, Thomas - 2013

wages and rising wage dispersion over time. …

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The labor market effects of restricting refugees' employment opportunities

Ahrens, Achim; Beerli, Andreas; Hangartner, Dominik; … - 2023

restrictions on employment opportunities help explain why immigrants have lower employment and wages than native citizens. To test … prioritizing residents over refugees. Consistent with an effect of outside options on wages, removing 10% of jobs reduces refugees …' hourly wages by 2.8% and increases the wage gap to similar host-country citizens in similar jobs by 2.2%. Furthermore, we …

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All-star or benchwarmer? : relative age, cohort size and career success in the NHL

Bryson, Alex; Gómez, Rafael; Zhang, Tingting - 2014

We analyze the performance outcomes of National Hockey League (NHL) players over 18 seasons (1990-1991 to 2007-2008) as a function of the demographic conditions into which they were born. We have three main findings. First, larger birth cohorts substantially affect careers. A player born into a...

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