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Union Threat and Non-Union Employment : A Natural Experiment on the Use of Temporary Employment in British Firms
Salvatori, Andrea - 2011
This paper presents the first empirical evidence on the effect of the threat of unionisation on the use of a predominantly non-union type of employment, i.e. temporary employment. The identification strategy exploits an exogenous variation in union threat induced in the UK by new legislation...
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Temporary Employment, Job Flows and Productivity : A Tale of Two Reforms
Cappellari, Lorenzo - 2012
We investigate the effects of two reforms of temporary employment using panel data on Italian firms. We exploit variation in their implementation across regions and sectors for identification. Our results show that the reform of apprenticeship contracts increased job turnover and induced the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106655
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Wage Inequality in Germany after the Minimum Wage Introduction
Bossler, Mario - 2020
We revisit the development of monthly wages in Germany between 2000 and 2017. While wage inequality strongly increased …
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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany : Increasing Heterogeneity and Changing Selection into Full-Time Work
Biewen, Martin - 2017
This study revisits the increase in wage inequality in Germany. Accounting for changes in various sets of observables …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945241
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Occupational Tasks and Wage Inequality in Germany : A Decomposition Analysis
Koomen, Miriam; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2022
We study the role of occupational tasks as drivers of West German wage inequality. We match administrative wage data with longitudinal task data, which allows us to account for within-occupation changes in task content over time. We run RIF regression-based decompositions to quantify the...
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Migration and the Wage Curve : A Structural Approach to Measure the Wage and Employment Effects of Migration
Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J. - 2021
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 … through immigration increases the aggregate unemployment rate by less than 0.1 percentage points and reduces average wages by …
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Understanding Rising Income Inequality in Germany
Biewen, Martin - 2010
We examine the causes for rising income inequality in Europe's most populous economy. From 2000 to 2006, Germany … experienced an unprecedented rise in net equivalized income inequality and poverty. At the same time, unemployment rose to record …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139967
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Temporary Help Work : Compensating Differentials and Multiple Job-Holding
Hamersma, Sarah - 2012
Temporary Help Services (THS) employment has been growing in size, particularly among disadvantaged workers, and in importance in balancing cyclical fluctuations in labor demand. Does THS employment provide some benefits to disadvantaged workers, or divert them from better jobs? We investigate...
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Are Temporary Jobs Stepping Stones or Dead Ends? A Meta-Analytical Review of the Literature
Filomena, Mattia; Picchio, Matteo - 2022
the dead end hypothesis. Finally, in more recent years and when the unemployment rate is larger, the dead end hypothesis …
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Offshoring, Wages and Job Security of Temporary Workers
Görg, Holger - 2012
We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular …
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