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This paper examines the impact of trade on employment, wages, and other outcomes across countries and explores the … firm-level dataset to examine the impact of import competition on employment, wages, and firm performance, as well as the … higher average wages; thus any relatively slower employment growth in this group of firms could lead to lower inequality …
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The paper develops a simple three-sector model of a developing country with nominal wage rigidity, in which one sector is thought of as the primary sector and the other two are sectors in which the country can diversify. The paper then analyzes the relationship between the market structure of...
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We analyze how the pass-through from exchange rate to domestic wages depends on the degree of integration between … domestic wages to real exchange rate is 0.1 after a year for countries with high barriers to external labor mobility, but about …
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The paper uses a large survey (GSOEP) to analyze the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It finds that new immigrant workers earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for immigrants from advanced countries,...
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methodology is applied to Polish micro data. The estimates confirm that wages are less elastic in a high … wages, and thus, on the labor market and the real economy, were limited until 1998, but have been quite significant …
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-specific variable, it is known that there are K reservation wages that could be posted, but generically never more than two actually are … posted in equilibrium. What is unknown is when we get two wages, and which wages are actually posted. For an example with K … combination of posted reservation wages, depending on parameters. We also show how wages, profits, and unemployment depend on …
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The coexistence of urban and rural poverty and migration to cities is studied in a dual economy model where the acquisition of skills is costly and involves migration to urban areas. In this model, both the distribution of innate abilities and the distribution of wealth matter for the migration...
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relatively fast employment growth in the past decade. Employment growth was not sufficient to reduce unemployment because of … rapid population growth and increased labor force participation. This paper shows that Philippine employment growth and …
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Work absence is an important part of the individual decision on actual working hours. This paper focuses on sickness absence in Europe and develops a stylized model where absence is part of the labor-leisure decision made by workers and the production decision made by profit-maximizing firms,...
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This paper provides new empirical evidence on the relationship between reservation wages of unemployed workers and … perspective on how reservation wages change over time and how they correlate with accepted wage offers for workers who move from … unemployment to employment. The findings shed light on the disincentive effects of the German tax and transfer system for the …
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