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Wage Flexibility in a Unionized Economy with Stable Wage Dispersion
Carlsson, Mikael - 2019
The paper estimates how wages respond to changes in regional unemployment using detailed Swedish micro data. The study is set in an economy with close to complete union coverage where real wages have grown continuously in all parts of the wage distribution for the past 15 years, and where the...
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Minimum Wages in Kenya
Andalon, Mabel; Pages, Carmen - 2021
This paper examines the performance of minimum wage legislation in Kenya, both in terms of its coverage and enforcement as well as in terms of their implications for wages and employment. Our findings based on the 1998/99 labor force data - the last labor force survey available - indicate that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324839
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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration : The Case of Occupations
Kampelmann, Stephan - 2011
into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130457
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The Heterogeneous Effects of Training Incidence and Duration on Labor Market Transitions
Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2010
start. The effects are higher for women than for men and higher in West Germany than in East Germany. Further, we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136712
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A Critique and Reframing of Personality in Labour Market Theory : Locus of Control and Labour Market Outcomes
Trzcinski, Eileen - 2011
This article critically examines the theoretical arguments that underlie the literature linking personality traits to economic outcomes and provides empirical evidence indicating that labour market outcomes influence personality outcomes. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118524
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What Explains the German Labor Market Miracle in the Great Recession?
Burda, Michael C. - 2011
Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122978
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Getting Back into the Labor Market : The Effects of Start-Up Subsidies for Unemployed Females
Caliendo, Marco - 2012
A shortage of skilled labor and low female labor market participation are problems many developed countries have to face. Besides activating inactive women, one possible solution is to support the re-integration of unemployed women. Due to female-specific labor market constraints (preferences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099742
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The German Labor Market after the Great Recession : Successful Reforms and Future Challenges
Caliendo, Marco - 2012
The reaction of the German labor market to the Great Recession 2008/09 was relatively mild – especially compared to other countries. The reason lies not only in the specific type of the recession – which was favorable for the German economy structure – but also in a series of labor market...
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Migration and Imperfect Labor Markets : Theory and Cross-Country Evidence from Denmark, Germany and the UK
Brücker, Herbert - 2012
We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are … compared to Germany and, in particular, Denmark. As a consequence, immigration has a much larger effect on the unemployment … rate in Germany and Denmark, while the wage effects are larger in the UK. Moreover, the elasticity of substitution between …
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Doing Well in Reforming the Labour Market? Recent Trends in Job Stability and Wages in Germany
Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2013
The German "employment miracle", with a weak decline in employment and low unemployment during the great recession, seems to be a good example for a successful labour market reform. Nevertheless, there are concerns about rising inequality in the labour market. In this paper we analyze the...
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