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The unequal cost of job loss across countries

Bertheau, Antoine; Acabbi, Edoardo; Barceló, Cristina; … - 2022

We document the consequences of losing a job across countries using a harmonized research design. Workers in Denmark and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while workers in Italy, Spain, and Portugal experience losses three times as high. French and...

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East-West trade and migration : the Austro-German case

Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998

suggest that immigration exhibits negative effects on native employment and wages, and has no effects on total employment …. Imports affect employment negatively and exports have a positive effect on wages. The German results indicate that immigration … and trade is not harming employment and wages. Natives seem to be complements to migrants, at least to those from East …

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Granular search, market structure, and wages

Jarosch, Gregor; Nimczik, Jan Sebastian; Sorkin, Isaac - 2019

itself. We show how wages depend on employment concentration and then use the model to quantify the effects of granular … market power. In Austrian micro-data, we find that granular market power depresses wages by about ten percent and can explain … reduce wages even at non-merging firms. …

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Immigration and the distribution of incomes

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2012

We review research on the impact of immigration on income distribution. We discuss routes through which immigration can …. Immigration may affect the composition of skills among the residents of a country. Moreover, immigrants can, by changing relative … recent increases in immigration to OECD countries and on the distribution of native and immigrant educational attainment. We …

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Pay and productivity in a corporatist economy : evidence from Austria

Fuess, Scott M.; Millea, Meghan - 2001

Conventional theory predicts that productivity gains lead to hikes in real pay. Efficiency wage theory hypothesizes that pay increases can lead to productivity improvements. But would such results be observed in a corporatist economy with centralized bargaining? For the case of Austria, a...

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How do automation and offshorability influence unemployment duration and subsequent job quality?

Schmidpeter, Bernhard; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2018

wages and employment stability. Our rich administrative data allow us to evaluate the importance of providing unemployment … find re-employment, our results show that offshorability (but not automation) affects future job duration and wages …

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The effects of international migration on native workers' unionisation in Austria

Antón Pérez, José Ignacio; Böheim, René; … - 2016

We analyze the effects of increased immigration of foreign workers on the unionisation rates of native workers in …

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Immigration and Distribution of Wages in Austria

Horvath, Gerard Thomas - 2011

native male workers in Austria. I find that immigration has heterogeneous effects on wages, differing by type of work as well … most workers. Overall it seems that most of potentially adverse effects of immigration on natives' wages are offset by …Using detailed micro data on earnings and employment, I analyze the effects of immigration on the wage distribution of …

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Are Austrian returns to education falling over time?

Fersterer, Josef; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 1999

In this paper we make a systematic presentation of returns to education in Austria for the period 1981-1997. We use consistent cross-sections from the Mikrozensus and find falling returns over time. These falling returns are not caused by changes in the sample design and reduced willingness to...

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The fiscal impact of immigrants in Austria - A generational accounting analysis

Mayr, Karin - 2004

1998 as well as the inter-temporal fiscal impact of immigration to Austria. Immigrants affect inter-temporal fiscal balance …. The overall fiscal effect of immigration is found positive, under the assumption that the age and fiscal characteristics … payments during working age. However, immigration is not likely to achieve inter-temporal fiscal balance, even if immigration …

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