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Seniority Wages and the Role of Firms in Retirement

Frimmel, Wolfgang - 2015

expensive older workers into retirement. Based on the seniority wage model developed by Lazear (1979), we discuss steep … seniority wage profiles as incentives for firms to dismiss older workers before retirement. Conditional on individual retirement … incentives, e.g., social security wealth or health status, the steepness of the wage profile will have different incentives for …

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Banking on Snow : Bank Capital, Risk, and Employment

Baumgartner, Simon; Stomper, Alex; Schober, Thomas; … - 2022

How does small-firm employment respond to exogenous labor productivity risk? We find that this depends on the capitalization of firms' local banks. The evidence comes from firms offering (quasi-) fixed employment to workers whose productivity depends on the weather. Weather risk reduces this...

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Genes, Legitimacy and Hypergamy : Another Look at the Economics of Marriage

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009

In order to credibly "sell" legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of human capital accumulation, and the evolution of the...

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Endogenous Indoctrination : Occupational Choice, the Evolution of Beliefs, and the Political Economy of Reform

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009

Much of the political economy analysis of reform focuses on the conflict of interest between groups that stand to gain or lose from the competing policy proposals. In reality, there is also a lot of disagreement about the working of the policy: in addition to conflicting interests, conflicting...

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Can Active Labor Market Policy Be Counter-Productive?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2014

We study active labor market policies (ALMP) in a matching model. ALMPs are modelled as a subsidy to job search. Workers differ in their productivity, and search takes place along an extensive margin. An additional job seeker affects the quality of unemployed workers. As a result, the Hosios...

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Returns to Apprenticeship Training in Austria:Evidence from Failed Firms

Fersterer, Josef; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Winter-Ebmer, … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countriesfor the participants. There is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered,and there might be an important element of selection in who obtains an apprenticeship, andwhat type. To...

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Market Orientation and Gender Wage Gaps:An International Study

Zweimüller, Martina; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Two very different approaches are used to explore the relation between market orientationand gender wage differentials … in international data. More market orientation might be relatedto gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in …

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Does the Welfare State Make Older Workers Unemployable?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009

This paper discusses the specificities of the labor market for older workers. It discusses the implications of those specificities for the effect of labor market institutions on the employability of those workers. It shows that while unemployment benefits indexed backwards and hiring costs are...

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Mentoring and Segregation : Female-Led Firms and Gender Wage Policies

Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2008

share of females reducing the wage level. These results are compatible with a theory where job promotion is an important … factor of wage increases: if more females are to be mentored, less promotion slots are available for males, but also the …

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The Effect of Income on Mortality : New Evidence for the Absence of a Causal Link

Ahammer, Alexander - 2015

endogeneity concerns arising in this context, we estimate time-invariant firm-specific wage components and use them as instruments …

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