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Temporary Contracts and Monopsony Power in the UK Labour Market
Tabasso, Domenico - 2011
wages and a simultaneous increase in travel-to-work distance. Nonetheless, when unobserved characteristics are accounted for …
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High Wage Workers Match with High Wage Firms : Clear Evidence of the Effects of Limited Mobility Bias
Andrews, Martyn J. - 2012
Positive assortative matching implies that high productivity workers and firms match together. However, there is almost no evidence of a positive correlation between the worker and firm contributions in two-way fixed-effects wage equations. This could be the result of a bias caused by standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104657
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Labour Market Polarisation, Job Tasks and Monopsony Power
Bachmann, Ronald; Demir, Gökay; Frings, Hanna - 2021
Using a semi-structural approach based on a dynamic monopsony model, we examine to what extent workers performing different job tasks are exposed to different degrees of monopsony power, and whether these differences in monopsony power have changed over the last 30 years. We find that workers...
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Value Added, Wages, and Labor Market Flows at the Establishment Level
Merkl, Christian - 2018
In this paper, we analyze the connection between value added, wages, and labor market flows at the establishment level …
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Doing Well in Reforming the Labour Market? Recent Trends in Job Stability and Wages in Germany
Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2013
wages and rising wage dispersion over time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076511
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Wage Cyclicalities and Labor Market Dynamics at the Establishment Level : Theory and Evidence
Merkl, Christian - 2017
-sectional heterogeneity of establishments' average real wages over the business cycle. While the median establishments' real wages are … procyclical, there is a large fraction of establishments with countercyclical real wages. We are the first to show that … establishments with more procyclical wages have a less procyclical hires rate and employment behavior. We propose a labor market flow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946571
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Deregulating Teacher Labor Markets
Burgess, Simon M. - 2019
A common feature of public sector labor markets is the use of pay scales. This paper examines how the removal of pay scales impacts productivity, by exploiting a reform that compelled all schools in England to replace pay scales with school-designed performance related pay schemes. We find that...
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Cyclical Earnings, Career and Employment Transitions
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Visschers, Ludo; Wiczer, David - 2022
This paper studies the cyclical behaviour of earnings risk and career changes. We document that the procyclical skewness of the earnings growth distribution arises mostly from the earnings changes of employer and occupation switchers. To uncover their relative importance in driving cyclical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014244266
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Labor Market Entry Conditions, Wages and Job Mobility
Bachmann, Ronald - 2010
Economic conditions at the time of labour market entry can induce wage differentials between workers entering the labour market at different points in time. While the existence and persistence of these entry wage differentials are well documented, little is known about their interaction with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141755
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Labour Market Flows : Facts from the United Kingdom
Gomes, Pedro - 2010
This paper documents a number of facts about worker gross flows in the United Kingdom for the period between 1993 and 2010. Using Labour Force Survey data, I examine the size and cyclicality of the flows and transition probabilities between employment, unemployment and inactivity, from several...
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