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controlled for there is a further pervasive source of bias, namely the co-movement of firm employment and firm wages. In a simple … aggregate or firm level) to firm's employment and wages cause downward bias in OLS regression estimates of RTT. We show that the … between 3.5% and 4.5% of wages at 20 years of tenure — over 80% (50%) of the estimated RTT level itself. The results extend to …
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In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical … approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the health production function. We apply this … approach to a multi-country data set, which includes 12 European countries and has information on education, health and health …
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We show that downsizing has substantial externalities on the health of workers who remain in the firm. To this end, we … and physical health, and that these effects can be explained by workers fearing for their own jobs. We also show that … health externalities due to downsizing imply non-negligible cost for firms, and that wage cuts may have similar effects …
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The analysis of the effects of firm-level international trade on wages has so far focused on the role of exports, which … trade and wages across types of products. In particular, firms that increase their exports (imports) of high- (intermediate …
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with the law, we find that the wages and hours worked of older women (those required to work longer) were virtually …
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employment and wage practices of foreign and domestic firms in Brazil, using detailed matched firm-worker panel data. In order to … the joint estimation of firm and worker fixed effects. We find that changes in ownership do not tend to affect wages …
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incentives, e.g., social security wealth or health status, the steepness of the wage profile will have different incentives for …
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wages and employment stability. Our rich administrative data allow us to evaluate the importance of providing unemployment … find re-employment, our results show that offshorability (but not automation) affects future job duration and wages … the routine content in tasks as well as the probability of off-shoring negatively affects the re-employment possibilities …
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We investigate the impact of labour market concentration on two dimensions of job quality, namely wages and job … and local product market concentration, we show that the elasticities of wages with respect to labour market concentration … are strikingly similar across countries: increasing labour market concentration by 10% reduces wages by 0.19% in Germany …
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run earnings and employment losses are substantial for both groups but stronger for white collar workers. In the long run …
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