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Government regulation and lifecycle wages : evidence from continuing coverage mandates
Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Webber, Douglas A. - 2019
We examine the lifecycle wage effects of health insurance market regulation that compels private insurers to offer …
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Interacting product and labor market regulation and the impact of immigration on native wages
Prantl, Susanne; Spitz-Oener, Alexandra - 2014
Does interacting product and labor market regulation alter the impact of immigration on wages of competing native … labor market: one segment without product and labor market regulation, to which standard immigration models best apply, one … segment in which product and labor market regulation interact, and one segment covering intermediate groups of workers. We …
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Repeated job quits : stepping stones or learning about quality?
Gielen, Anne C. (contributor) - 2008
Despite the fact that worker quits are often associated with wage gains and higher overall job satisfaction, many workers quit once again within one or two years after changing jobs initially. Such repeated job quit behavior may arise as a stepping stone to better quality jobs (Burdett, 1978) or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003778474
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On the determinants of pay of CEOs in UK public sector higher education institutions
Bachan, Ray (contributor) - 2008
The pay determining process of CEOs of UK higher education institutions is modelled using three econometric methodologies applied to a large and unique dataset for the academic years 1997/98 through to 2005/06. A gender differential in pay is detected and this differential remains robust across...
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Is there a trade-off between job security and wages in Germany and the UK?
Hübler, Dominik (contributor); Hübler, Olaf (contributor) - 2006
This paper looks at the wage effects of perceived and objective insecurity in Germany and the UK using the GSOEP and BHPS panels. The distinction between perceived worry about job loss and economic indicators such as regional unemployment rates and the share of temporary contracts is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003355569
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On-the-job search, productivity shocks and the individual earnings process
Postel-Vinay, Fabien (contributor);  … - 2006
Individual labor earnings observed in worker panel data have complex, highly persistent dynamics. We investigate the capacity of a structural job search model with i.i.d. productivity shocks to replicate salient properties of these dynamics, such as the covariance structure of earnings, the...
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Income taxes and the composition of pay
Brunello, Giorgio (contributor); Comi, Simona (contributor);  … - 2006
According to the standard principal-agent model, the optimal composition of pay should balance the provision of incentives with the individual demand for insurance. Do income taxes alter this balance? We show that the relative share of PRP on total pay is reduced by higher average taxes, and is...
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The life-cycle and the business-cycle of wage risk : a cross-country comparison
Bayer, Christian; Juessen, Falko - 2009
This paper provides a cross-country comparison of life-cycle and business-cycle fluctuations in the dispersion of household-level wage innovations. We draw our inference from household panel data sets for the US, the UK, and Germany. First, we find that household characteristics explain about...
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The nonlinear link between height and wages : an empirical investigation
Hübler, Olaf (contributor) - 2006
This article investigates the relationship between individual wages and height using the German Socio-Economic Panel where five hypotheses are tested. Some explanations of a positive link exist and empirical studies confirm this hypothesis. In contrast to previous investigations which are only...
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Use IT or lose IT? : The impact of computers on earnings
Dolton, Peter J. (contributor);  … - 2007
"The extent to which the impact of computer skills depends on how computers are used is investigated using British data from an establishment survey, cohort studies and the European E-Living survey. We examine the importance of activity and frequency of use in these various data sources. We find...
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