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Ethnic minorities have lower wages compared to the ethnic majority in most EU-countries. However, to what extent these wage gaps are the result of prejudice toward ethnic minority workers is virtually unknown. This study sets out to examine what role prejudice play in the creation of the ethnic...
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variables). Besides institutional variables influencing external numerical flexibility (employment protection, unemployment …
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This paper presents – in a new way of examination and portrayal – the extent and changes of nonstandard employment … relationships (part-time work, fixed-term contracts, and self-employment) in 24 EU member states at two points of time, in 1998 and … central outcome is neither the complaint of the eroding 'standard employment relationship' nor of its potential …
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This research applies a task-based approach to measure and interpret changes in the employment structure of the 168 … employment growth. This result is robust to a variety of other explanations including industry composition, routinisation, and …
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We develop a model where the unemployed workers in the city can find a job either directly or through weak or strong ties. We show that, in denser areas, individuals choose to interact with more people and meet more random encounters (weak ties) than in sparsely populated areas. We also...
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Using high-quality administrative microdata spanning 2011-2013, this paper develops new routines to compare creative economies using the creative trident framework, and applies them to the UK and US national and regional contexts. We find the UK creative economy is larger in workforce shares,...
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In most countries, average wages tend to be higher in larger cities. In this paper, we focus on the role played by the matching of workers to firms in explaining geographical wage differences. Using rich administrative German data for 1985-2014, we show that wages in large cities are higher not...
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passive welfare state, strong employment protection and collective bargaining that stabilize diversified quality production … of flexible or 'atypical' jobs, whereas increasing flexibility of the standard employment relationship resulted from wage …
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The increasing numbers of workers in employment with little to no job security, so-called precarious employment, has … particularly, mental health. We provide new evidence on this, focusing on an extreme form of precarious employment that has grown … between ZHC employment and physical ill health emerges, after controlling for a rich set of observable characteristics …
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. When they can freely choose between a formal or informal employment relationship, i.e., the labor market is integrated …, their wellbeing can reach high levels even in the presence of informal employment. We, therefore, test whether the Ukrainian … consist in the analysis of short-term and medium-term transitions between five employment states, unemployment and inactivity …
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