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, an increase in government wages or benefits reduces private sector employment, and government employment is not an …
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German wages have not increased very rapidly in the last decade despite strong employment growth and a 5 percentage …-level administrative data - that large immigration flows since 2012 have had dampening effects on aggregate wage growth, as complementarity …
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This paper assesses the responsiveness of wages and labor force movements to employment shocks across British and U ….S. regions and across Europe using a multivariate vector autoregression technique. The paper finds inflexible real wages in all …
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, period, and cohort effects for the likelihood of employment in different occupations and the wages earned therein over 2001 … relative to high-paying abstract jobs. However, cohort effects also underpin falling wages for post-1980 cohorts across all …
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Lagging labor reallocations outside agriculture amid sustained low agricultural productivity have been a key feature in the Philippines over the past 15 years. An analysis of the labor adjustments in and out of agriculture shows that a variety of factors have influenced this process. We find...
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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 …
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This paper uses census and household survey data on Cameroon, Ghana, and South Africa to examine immigration's impact … in the context of a segmented labor market in Sub-Saharan Africa. We find that immigration affects (i) employment (ii … the impact depends on the degree of complementarity between immigrants and native workers' skills. Immigration is found to …
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and mid-1990s. Using a system of equations for unemployment, labor-force participation, the real wage, and the immigration … that of an increase in domestic labor-force participation. The composition of immigration flows matters, and the proportion …
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in the probability of being employed within each occupation type and wages earned therein. Cohort plots and econometric … particularly significant for low-skill women: estimated cohort effects point to a fall in wages within each occupation as well as a …
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wage, and align public sector compensation to private wages in low-skilled professions …
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