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Lost in Transition? Minimum Wage Effects on German Construction Workers
Bachmann, Ronald - 2012
well as the underlying labour market flows, at the establishment level. The fact that minimum wages in Germany are sector … accessions and separations rise in East Germany as a result of the minimum wage introduction. The evidence on detailed worker …-to-job transitions in East Germany, which can be explained by a more compressed wage distribution making on-the-job search less …
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High-School Dropouts and Transitory Labor Market Shocks : The Case of the Spanish Housing Boom
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa - 2010
This paper addresses the implications of transitory changes in labor market conditions for low versus high educated workers on the decision to acquire education. To identify this effect, I use the improvement in the labor market prospects of low educated workers motivated by the increases in...
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(Mis-)Predicted Subjective Well-Being Following Life Events
Odermatt, Reto - 2015
data, we compare people's forecast of their life satisfaction in five years' time to their actual realisations later on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016253
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Occupational Choice, Aggregate Productivity, and Trade
Meckl, Jürgen - 2011
We propose occupational decisions of heterogeneous individuals as an alternative mechanism of explaining the distribution of firm productivities emphasized by empirical studies. Thus, we integrate the frameworks of Melitz (2003), and of Manasse and Turrini (2001) that establish the theoretical...
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The Role of Sectoral Growth Patterns in Labor Market Development
Arias, Javier - 2012
This paper investigates the relationship between sectoral growth patterns and employment outcomes. A broad cross-country analysis reveals that in middle-income countries, employment responds more to growth in less productive and more labor-intensive sectors. Employment in middle-income countries...
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Give Me Your Wired and Your Highly Skilled : Measuring the Impact of Immigration Policy on Employers and Shareholders
Lin, Carl - 2013
The paper links finance theory to labor economics and political economy in the context of migration and immigration policy. Most research treating the impact of immigration has focused on the consequences for employees as measured by wages, earnings, and employment. Less is known about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092819
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Wage Structure and Labor Mobility in the Netherlands 1999-2003
Borghans, Lex - 2007
In this paper we document the wage structure and labor mobility in the Netherlands in the period 1999-2003. We explain the importance of wage-setting institutions in the Netherlands and the main actors. The analyses are based on administrative sources allowing for comparisons between and within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776567
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Robots at Work
Graetz, Georg - 2015
Despite ubiquitous discussions of robots' potential impact, there is almost no systematic empirical evidence on their economic effects. In this paper we analyze for the first time the economic impact of industrial robots, using new data on a panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007.We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024924
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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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Subcontracting and the Size and Composition of the Informal Sector : Evidence from Indian Manufacturing
Moreno, Ana - 2012
This paper analyzes the relationship between formal sector subcontracting and the evolution of the informal sector using nationally representative survey data of Indian manufacturing enterprises for the period 1995-2006. In these years of fast economic growth, subcontracting by formal...
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