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This paper provides estimates of the impact of higher education qualifications on the earnings of graduates in the UK by subject studied. We use data from the recent UK Labour Force Surveys which provide a sufficiently large sample to consider the effects of the subject studied, class of first...
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This paper addresses the applicability of the theory of equalizing differences (Rosen, 1987) in a market in which … run workers who have experienced a change in their employer can expect a career trajectory in line with the theory on … wages and a simultaneous increase in travel-to-work distance. Nonetheless, when unobserved characteristics are accounted for …
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In this paper, we analyse differences in the cyclical pattern of employment and wages of immigrants and natives for two …
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This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different …
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We provide new evidence about earnings and labour market volatility in Britain over the period 1992-2008, and for women as well as men. (Most research about volatility refers to earnings volatility for US men.) We show that earnings volatility declined slightly for both men and women over the...
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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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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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This paper investigates the behaviour of employers' monopsony power and workers' wages over the business cycle. Using … unemployment rate. In line with theory, we find that firms possess more monopsony power during economic downturns, which shows to … workers' entry wages are of similar magnitude as those predicted under monopsonistic wage setting, suggesting that monopsony …
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This paper analyzes the optimal response of the social insurance system to a rise in labor market risk. To this end, we develop a tractable macroeconomic model with risk-free physical capital, risky human capital (labor market risk) and unobservable effort choice affecting the distribution of...
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In this paper we allude to a novel role played by the non-linear income tax system in the presence of adverse selection in the labor market due to asymmetric information between workers and firms. We show that an appropriate choice of the tax schedule enables the government to affect the wage...
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