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Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation Among Immigrants : 1980-2000
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Papps, Kerry L. - 2021
We use 1980, 1990 and 2000 Census data to study the impact of source country characteristics on the labor supply assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor force participation rates work substantially more...
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Temporary Contracts and Monopsony Power in the UK Labour Market
Tabasso, Domenico - 2011
This paper addresses the applicability of the theory of equalizing differences (Rosen, 1987) in a market in which temporary and permanent workers co-exist. The assumption of perfect competition in the labour market is directly questioned and a model is developed in which the labour market is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121764
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The Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey : Towards a Better Understanding of Labor Markets in Transition
Lehmann, Hartmut - 2013
The paper presents the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS), which is one of the most widely used household and labor force surveys in Eastern Europe. It is based on a statistically representative sample of the Ukrainian population aged between 15 and 72 years, comprising about 4,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089003
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Overskilling Dynamics and Education Pathways
Mavromaras, Kostas G. - 2009
whether overskilling differs by education pathway. The answer to both questions is yes. The paper continues by asking whether … overskilling is a self-perpetuating labour market state (state dependence), and whether state dependence differs by education … finding. Overskilled workers with a higher degree show the highest state dependence, while workers with vocational education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157528
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Wages, Hires, and Labor Market Concentration
Marinescu, Ioana Elena - 2020
How does employer market power affect workers? We compute the concentration of new hires by occupation and commuting zone in France using linked employer-employee data. Using instrumental variables with worker and firm fixed effects, we find that a 10% increase in labor market concentration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833879
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Sorting between and within Industries : A Testable Model of Assortative Matching
Abowd, John M. - 2014
We test for sorting of workers between and within industrial sectors in a directed search model with coordination frictions. We fit the model to sector-specific vacancy and output data along with publicly-available statistics that characterize the distribution of worker and employer wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046672
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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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Disposable Workforce in Italy
Contini, Bruno - 2010
This paper explores the "disposable" patterns of workforce utilization in Italy, well under way before the cyclical downturn of the early 90's and before the main reforms of the Italian labor market. The term "disposable" reflects the fact that many young people enter the labor market, their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148319
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An Empirical Assessment of Assortative Matching in the Labor Market
Mendes, Rute; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2021
In labor markets with worker and firm heterogeneity, the matching between firms and workers may be assortative, meaning that the most productive workers and firms team up. We investigate this with longitudinal population-wide matched employer-employee data from Portugal. Using dynamic panel data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316806
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Measuring Ethnic Identity and Its Impact onEconomic Behavior
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
The paper advocates for a new measure of the ethnic identity of migrants, models itsdeterminants and explores its explanatory power for various types of their economicperformance...
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