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Wage theft, economic conditions, and market power : the case of H-1B workers

DeVaro, Jed; Norlander, Peter - 2021

This study explores what determines employers' violations of the wage contracts of workers on H-1B temporary work visas, which occur when firms pay those workers below the promised prevailing or "market" wage. A theoretical framework is proposed that predicts more violations during economic...

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The statutory minimum wage in Germany and the labor demand elasticities of low-skilled workers : a regression discontinuity approach with establishment panel data

Kölling, Arnd - 2020 - This version: October 16th, 2020

This study examines the influence of the statutory minimum wage on labor demand elasticities regarding low-skilled workers. For this, a regression discontinuity analysis is conducted using company panel data from 2013 to 2018. In addition, a possible endogeneity of the remuneration for...

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Monopsony power and guest worker programs

Gibbons, Eric M.; Greenman, Allie; Norlander, Peter; … - 2019

, and a pure monopsony (one employer) reduces wages by 13 percent. A simulation shows that wages under pure monopsony could … be 47 percent lower, suggesting that employers do not use the extent of their monopsony power. Enforcing wage regulations … and decreasing barriers to mobility may better address issues of exploitation than antitrust scrutiny. …

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Rent sharing in China : magnitude, heterogeneity and drivers

Duan, Wenjing; Martins, Pedro S. - 2020

Do firms in China share rents with their workers? We address this question by examining firm-level panel data covering virtually all manufacturing firms over the period 2000-2007, representing an average of 52 million workers per year. We find evidence of rent sharing (RS), with wage-profit...

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Employment protection and firm-provided training : quasi-experimental evidence from a labour market reform

Bratti, Massimiliano; Conti, Maurizio; Sulis, Giovanni - 2019

In 2012 a labour market reform, known as Fornero Law, substantially reduced firing restrictions for firms with more than 15 employees in Italy. The results from a difference in regression discontinuities design that compares firms below versus those above the cut-off before and after the reform...

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Sexual orientation discrimination in the labor market against gay men

Drydakis, Nick - 2021

The study replicates the first European field experiment on gay men's labor market prospects in Greece. Utilizing the same protocol as the original study in 2006-2007, two follow-up field experiments took place in 2013-2014 and 2018-2019. The study estimated that gay men experienced occupational...

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Are temporary jobs stepping stones or dead ends? : a meta-analytical review of the literature

Filomena, Mattia; Picchio, Matteo - 2021

We present a meta-analysis on the debate about the "stepping stone vs. dead end" hypothesis related to the causal effect of temporary jobs on future labour market performances. We select academic papers published on international peer-reviewed journals from 1990 until 2021. Among 78 observations...

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Creating data from unstructured text with Context Rule Assisted Machine Learning (CRAML)

Meisenbacher, Stephen; Norlander, Peter - 2022

Popular approaches to building data from unstructured text come with limitations, such as scalability, interpretability, replicability, and real-world applicability. These can be overcome with Context Rule Assisted Machine Learning (CRAML), a method and no-code suite of software tools that...

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Does regulation trade-off quality against inequality? : the case of German architects and construction engineers

Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Strohmaier, Kristina - 2018

We exploit an exogenous price increase by about 10% for architectural services to answer the question how price regulation affects income inequality and service quality. Using individual-level data from the German microcensus for the years 2006 to 2012, we find a significant reform effect of 8%...

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A tale of two tracks

Asali, Muhammad - 2018

Given asymmetric information, this paper explores the need for non-tenure-track jobs in academia alongside the usual tenure-track positions. It also explains the coexistence of these two types of jobs in research universities as an equilibrium phenomenon. The increased e¤ort needed to produce...

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