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(un)employment. These disadvantages hold for all groups of workers and types of start-ups analyzed. Although our analysis …Using representative linked employer-employee data for Germany, this paper analyzes short- and long-run differences in … labor market performance of workers joining startups instead of incumbent firms. Applying entropy balancing and following …
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-employee data for Germany that allow to take the complete employment biographies of newly hired workers into account. The results … in startups than in incumbents. Therefore, even if startups provide employment opportunities for certain groups of …This paper analyzes whether startups offer job opportunities to workers potentially facing labor market problems. It …
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Based on a wage curve approach we examine the labor market effects of migration in Germany. The wage curve relies on … the assumption that wages respond to a change in the unemployment rate, albeit imperfectly. This allows one to derive the … wage and employment effects of migration simultaneously in a general equilibrium framework. For the empirical analysis we …
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I investigate the mechanisms that drive sorting into entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial success among young individuals. I use Canadian matched owner-employeremployee data to conduct my investigation. Empirically, older entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs who have previously worked in high-wage...
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We estimate the changes in US male labor market risk over the last three decades in a model of endogenous labor supply and job mobility. Across education groups permanent shocks to productivity have become more dispersed. Moreover, heterogeneity in pay across offered jobs has increased for...
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We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through … manufacturing. Earnings losses are larger for individuals with low initial wages, low initial tenure, and low attachment to the … adjustment costs that are highly unevenly distributed across workers according to their skill levels and conditions of employment …
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it did not narrow the gender gap in pre-layoff wages. Our results suggest that reduced pay flexibility may help displaced … workers catch up faster to non-displaced workers' pay premium ladder conditional on re-employment …
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the unemployment benefit entitlement system with monthly absence data for East and West Germany for the years 1991 …
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Africa is not only the poorest and most rural continent, it is also the most youthful continent in terms of population. Given the large number of young job seekers that will enter the labor market over the next decade, we need a better understanding of rural non-farm entrepreneurship,...
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postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities …
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