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The paper studies the relationship between teenagers' first labor market experience and subsequent labor market performance using data on all Swedish youths graduating from vocational high schools in the recession years of 1991-94. Sibling fixed-effects combined with detailed data on high school...
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college education cannot universally be considered an insurance against unpredictability of wages. One conclusion is …
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wages are fixed. We also account for the financing of these benefits and determine the level of benefits necessary to …
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-kind benefits and the propensity to have an informal employment relationship in addition to monthly earnings, hourly wages …
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significantly affects U.S. inward foreign direct investment. We find no evidence that relative wages have a significant impact on …
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study the labour market effects of public sector employment and wages. Public sector wages plays an important role in … achieving the efficient allocation. High wages induce too many unemployed to queue for public sector jobs, while if they are low … friction parameters. In response to technology shocks, it is optimal to have procyclical public sector wages. Deviations from …
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This paper presents new evidence that increases in college enrollment lead to a decline in the average quality of college graduates between 1960 and 2000, resulting in a decrease of 6 percentage points in the college premium. We show that although a standard demand and supply framework can...
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This paper exploits a rich and largely untapped source of information on the wages and other characteristics of …
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rationalize this by assuming that idiosyncratic non-pecuniary conditions interact with money wages in workers' decisions to work …
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short-run wages, but fared significantly better in the longer run. Second, we compare labor market outcomes of subsidized … wages of workers would not have differed significantly, if they had been hired in another industry instead. However, we find … significant differences in short-term wages, employment and tenure outcomes across industries. Finally, from a fiscal point of …
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