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Wage Posting or Wage Bargaining? Evidence from the Employers' Side
Brenzel, Hanna - 2013
bargaining in the matching process from the employer's side. We show that both modes of wage determination coexist in the German … sector, in larger firms, in firms covered by collective agreements, and in part-time and fixed-term contracts. Job … negotiating. Wage bargaining is more likely for more-educated applicants and in jobs with special requirements as well as in tight …
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Atypical Work : Who Gets it, and Where Does it Lead? Some U.S. Evidence Using the NLSY79
Addison, John T. - 2009
Atypical work arrangements have long been criticized as offering more precarious and lower paid work than regular open-ended employment. In an important paper, Booth et al. (2002) were among the first to recognize that notwithstanding their potential deficiencies, such jobs also functioned as a...
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How Do We Think the Covid-19 Crisis Will Affect Our Careers (If Any Remain)?
Baert, Stijn - 2020
This study is the first in the world to investigate the expected impact of the COVID-19 crisis on career outcomes and career aspirations. To this end, high-quality survey research with a relevant panel of Belgian employees was conducted. About 21% of them fear losing their jobs due to the...
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Marginal Jobs and Job Surplus : A Test of the Efficiency of Separations
Jäger, Simon - 2019
consistent with a "non-Coasean" framework building on wage frictions preventing efficient bargaining, and with formal or informal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870445
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Do Informal Referrals Lead to Better Matches? Evidence from a Firm's Employee Referral System
Brown, Meta - 2014
Using a new firm-level dataset that includes explicit information on referrals by current employees, we investigate the hiring process and the relationships among referrals, match quality, wage trajectories and turnover for a single U.S. corporation, and test various predictions of theoretical...
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Measuring Heterogeneity in Job Finding Rates Among the Nonemployed Using Labor Force Status Histories
Kudlyak, Marianna - 2014
We use a novel approach to studying the heterogeneity in the job finding rates of the nonemployed by classifying the nonemployed by labor force status (LFS) histories, instead of using only one-month LFS. Job finding rates differ substantially across LFS histories: they are 25-30% among those...
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The Bonding Effect of Deferred Compensation : Worker Separations from a Large Firm in Early Transition Russia
Ananyev, Mikhail - 2020
Deferred payments, as implicit contracts, are predicted to bind workers to firms as long as workers believe that firms … adhere to these implicit contracts. We employ a unique personnel data set from a Russian manufacturing firm to investigate …
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How Substitutable are Workers? Evidence from Worker Deaths
Jäger, Simon; Heining, Jörg - 2022
We estimate how exogenous worker exits affect firms' demand for incumbent workers and new hires. Drawing on administrative data from Germany, we analyze 34,000 unexpected worker deaths, which, on average, raise the remaining workers' wages and retention probabilities. The average effect masks...
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Minimum Wage Increases and Vacancies
Kudlyak, Marianna; Tasci, Murat; Tüzemen, Didem - 2022
Using a unique data set and a novel identification strategy, we estimate the effect of minimum wage increases on job vacancy postings. Utilizing occupation-specific county- level vacancy data from the Conference Board's Help Wanted Online for 2005-2018, we find that state-level minimum wage...
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The Unequal Cost of Job Loss Across Countries
Bertheau, Antoine; Acabbi, Edoardo Maria; Barcelo, Cristina - 2022
We document the consequences of losing a job across countries using a harmonized research design. Workers in Denmark and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while workers in Italy, Spain, and Portugal experience losses three times as high. French and...
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