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Sources of the Union Wage Gap: Results from High-Dimensional Fixed Effects Regression Models
Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro; Vilares, Hugo - 2017
We estimate the impact of union density on wages using Portuguese matched employer-employee-contract data, extending Gelbach’s (2016) omitted variable bias decomposition procedure to obtain the contribution of worker, firm, and job-title heterogeneity to the union wage premium. The principal...
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Are there gains to joining a union? Evidence from Mexico
Gutiérrez Rufrancos, Héctor Elías - 2019
Union density in Mexico has been in decline since the 1980s. This paper provides ev- idence on the worker compensation gains (losses) made by males upon joining (leaving) a union. These are estimated using a nationally representative labour market survey covering 2005q1-2016q1. The transitions...
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Job Training, Remote Working, and Self-Employment: Displaced Workers Beyond Employment Hysteresis
Focacci, Chiara Natalie; Santarelli, Enrico - 2021
The recent SARS-Cov-2 pandemic has contributed to several corporate crises. As a result, many Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Italy have filed for bankruptcy in the first quarter of 2020. In addition to a gigantic macroeconomic effect, the lockdown has impacted individuals to a...
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Overeducation, Performance Pay and Wages: Evidence from Germany
Baktash, Mehrzad B. - 2023
Overeducated workers are more productive and have higher wages in comparison to their adequately educated coworkers in the same jobs. However, they face a series of challenges in the labor market, including lower wages in comparison to their similarly educated peers who are in correctly matched...
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Strategic Behaviours in a Labour Market with Mobility-Restricting Contractual Provisions: Evidence from the National Hockey League
Fumarco, Luca; Longley, Neil; Palermo, Alberto; Rossi, … - 2024
We follow workers' performance along an unbalanced panel dataset over multiple years and study how performance varies at the end of fixed-term contracts, in a labour market where some people face a mobility restricting clause (i.e., a noncompete clause). Focusing on the labour market of the...
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Skill Gap, Mismatch, and the Dynamics of Italian Companies’ Productivity
Fanti, Lucrezia; Guarascio, Dario; Tubiana, Matteo - 2019
Relying on a unique integrated database, this work explores the relationship between labour productivity, on one side; intensity and characteristics of companies’ skills need and degree of skill mismatch, on the other. The analysis focuses on a representative sample of Italian limited liability...
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Productivity Loss amid Invisible Pollution
Wang, Chunchao; Lin, Qianqian; Qiu, Yun - 2020
Ground-level ozone is a continuing problem worldwide, but research on the influences of ozone pollution on labour productivity in developing countries is insufficient. We investigate the effect of ozone pollution on outdoor worker productivity in the service sector using a unique panel dataset...
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The Impact of Exposure to Missionaries on the English Language Proficiency and Earnings of Immigrants in the USA
Larsen, Nicholas; Chiswick, Barry R. - 2019
language proficiency and labor market earnings of male and female immigrants to the United States. Design … model and their labor market earnings using the human capital earnings function that is estimated with an ordinary least … earnings, and those from countries with a greater concentration of Catholic missionaries exhibit lower levels of both, compared …
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The Impact of Compulsory Schooling on Earnings. Evidence from the 1999 Education Reform in Poland
Liwiński, Jacek - 2018
In 1999, a reform of education was implemented in Poland, which added one year to the shortest available educational path, leading to the acquisition of basic vocational education. In the new system, students choosing this path acquire one more year of general education, which, according to the...
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English skills, labour market status and earnings of Turkish women
Di Paolo, Antonio; Tansel, Aysit - 2019
of English skills on labour market status and, conditional on being a wage earner, on monthly earnings and occupational … level of skills in English and earnings, which is only modestly reduced when job-related variables and (especially … English) seems to stimulate labour market participation and earnings capacity, but does not substantially affect the …
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