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The urban wage premium in imperfect labour markets

Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Manning, Alan; … - 2019

Using administrative data for West Germany, this paper investigates whether part of the urban wage premium stems from fierce competition in thick labour markets. We first establish that employers possess less wage-setting power in denser markets. Local differences in wage-setting power predict...

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Minimum wages in concentrated labor markets

Popp, Martin - 2021

Economists increasingly refer to monopsony power to reconcile the absence of negative employment effects of minimum … wages with theory. However, systematic evidence for the monopsony argument is scarce. In this paper, I perform a … comprehensive test of monopsony theory by using labor market concentration as a proxy for monopsony power. Labor market …

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Firms and labor market inequality: Evidence and some theory

Card, David E.; Cardoso, Ana Rute; Heining, Joerg - 2016

We review the literature on firm-level drivers of labor market inequality. There is strong evidence from a variety of fields that standard measures of productivity - like output per worker or total factor productivity - vary substantially across firms, even within narrowly-defined industries....

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A pilot study on the Vietnamese labour market and its social and economic context

Blien, Uwe; van, Phan thi Hong - 2006

This paper presents a regional case study of the labour market and its surrounding of Vinh City in central Vietnam, based on surveys conducted in 1999 and 2005. By including the time dimension and surveying samples with over 6000 individuals respectively it is possible to identify precisely the...

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Der Einfluss strukturierender Eigenschaften von Berufen auf horizontale und vertikale berufliche Mobilität im Kohortenvergleich

Vicari, Basha - 2018

Warum Erwerbstätige ihren Beruf wechseln wird von der bisherigen Mobilitätsforschung überwiegend durch die individuellen Eigenschaften dieser erklärt. Aber auch Berufe selbst strukturieren Matchingprozesse auf dem Arbeitsmarkt. Dieser Aufsatz analysiert den Erklärungsbeitrag beruflicher...

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Bargaining and inequality in the labor market

Caldwell, Sydnee; Haegele, Ingrid; Heining, Jörg - 2025

We use novel surveys of firms and workers, linked to administrative employer-employee data, to study the prevalence and importance of individual bargaining in wage determination. We show that simple survey questions accurately elicit firms' bargaining strategies. Using the elicited strategies...

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Berufssegmente: Eine empirisch fundierte Neuabgrenzung vergleichbarer beruflicher Einheiten

Matthes, Britta; Burkert, Carola; Biersack, Wolfgang - 2008

Der Mangel an wissenschaftlichen Analysen über die horizontale berufliche Mobilität ist vor allem das Ergebnis der Definitions- und Interpretationsprobleme, die mit der Operationalisierung dieses Sachverhaltes verbunden sind. Operationalisiert man berufliche Mobilität über Wechsel der...

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Founders' experience and self-employment duration: The importance of being a 'Jack-of-all-trades'. An analysis based on competing risks

Oberschachtsiek, Dirk - 2008

In dem Beitrag wird untersucht, wie sich Berufserfahrung und beruflicher Hintergrund auf die Dauer der Selbstständigkeit von Unternehmensgründern auswirken, insbesondere welchen Einfluss ausgewogene Qualifikationen auf diese Dauer haben. Es wird ein Bezugsrahmen zur Berufswahl eingesetzt, der...

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Revisiting German labour market reform effects: A panel data analysis for occupational labour markets

Stops, Michael - 2015

There is an ongoing discussion that centres on the German labour market reforms (2003- 2005) and the role of these reforms in boosting the German economy. Considering that one of the main objectives of the reforms was to improve the matching process on the labour market, I use rich,...

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Occupation-specific matching efficiency

Dengler, Katharina; Stops, Michael; Vicari, Basha - 2016

Based on rich administrative data from Germany, we address the differences in occupation specific job-matching processes where an occupation consists of jobs that share extensive commonalities in their required skills and tasks. These differences can be explained by the degree of standardization...

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