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We study the short-term trajectories of employment, hours worked, and real wages of immigrants in Canada and the U … growth in employment and wages in the U.S. than in Canada. We further compare longitudinal and cross-sectional trajectories … average immigrant men in Canada do not experience any relative growth in these three outcomes compared to men born in Canada …
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study the labour market effects of public sector employment and wages. Public sector wages plays an important role in … achieving the efficient allocation. High wages induce too many unemployed to queue for public sector jobs, while if they are low … friction parameters. In response to technology shocks, it is optimal to have procyclical public sector wages. Deviations from …
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The aim of this paper is to evaluate the role played by selectivity issues induced by nonemployment in explaining gender wage gap patterns in the EU since the onset of the Great Recession. We show that male selection into the labour market, traditionally disregarded, has increased. This is...
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This paper contrasts labour participation behaviour and wages of native and immigrant women. Since the impact of family … receive lower wages than native women in the same labor market segment, and that this is mainly associated with their …
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significant differences in short-term wages, employment and tenure outcomes across industries. Finally, from a fiscal point of …This paper explores whether wage, employment and tenure outcomes of workers taking up a job subsidized by the German … Federal Employment Agency differ by industry. The analysis utilizes administrative data and statistical matching techniques …
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A model for matched data with two types of unobserved heterogeneity is considered – one related to the observation unit, the other to units to which the observation units are matched. One or both of the unobserved components are assumed to be random. This mixed model allows identification of...
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This study compares the determinants of productivity and wages at both firm and worker level. In the firm …
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While much of the literature on immigrants' assimilation has focused on countries with a large tradition of receiving immigrants and with flexible labor markets, very little is known on how immigrants adjust to other types of host economies. With its severe dual labor market, and an...
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-coded administrative wage data from the German IAB Employment Sample (IABS). We then relate these robust measures of earnings risk to the …
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We estimate the impact of workforce diversity on productivity, wages and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using … econometric issues, show that educational (age) diversity is beneficial (harmful) for firm productivity and wages. The …
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