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The Role of Wage and Skill Differences in US-German Employment Differences
Freeman, Richard B. - 2000
Greater job creation in the US than in Germany has often been related to greater wage dispersion coupled with less regulated labour and product markets in the US. Based on the Comparative German American Structural Database and the International Adult Literacy Survey we find that employment of...
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Computing Inequality : Have Computers Changed the Labor Market?
Autor, David H. - 1997
This paper examines the effect of technological change and other factors on the relative demand for workers with different education levels and on the recent growth of U.S. educational wage differentials. A simple supply-demand framework is used to interpret changes in the relative quantities,...
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Separate and Unequal in the Labor Market : Human Capital and the Jim Crow Wage Gap
Carruthers, Celeste K. - 2016
The gap between black and white earnings is a longstanding feature of the United States labor market. Competing …
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"Golden Ages" : A Tale of the Labor Markets in China and the United States
Fang, Hanming; Qiu, Xincheng - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
U.S., but decreased sharply from 55 to around 35 in China; second, the age-specific earnings grew drastically in China …We study the labor markets in China and the United States, the two largest economies in the world, by examining the … evolution of their cross-sectional age-earnings profiles during the past thirty years. We find that, first, the peak age in the …
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Education Driving the Rise in Dutch Female Employment: Explanations for the Increase in Part-time Work and Female Employment in the Netherlands, Contrasted with Germany
Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - 2001
Over the last 15 years, the Netherlands has experienced a tremendous jobs boom, mainly in services and female employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch institutional environment. Using a model which allows for direct utility of work, we find that institutional arrangements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262608
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Labor Market Effects of Short-Cycle Higher Education Programs : Lessons from Colombia
Ferreira, María M.; Galindo, Camila; Urzua, Sergio - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper estimates the heterogeneous labor market effects of enrolling in higher education short-cycle (SC) programs. Expanding access to these programs might affect the behavior of some students (compliers) in two margins: the expansion margin (students who would not have enrolled in higher...
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They are even larger! More (on) puzzling labor market volatilities
Gartner, Hermann; Merkl, Christian; Rothe, Thomas - 2009
This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market. Specifically, the volatility of the cyclical component of several labor market variables (e.g., the job-finding rate, labor market tightness, and job vacancies) divided by the volatility of labor...
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The Exit-Voice Tradeoff in the Labor Market : Unionism, Job Tenure, Quits
Freeman, Richard B. - 1980
-voice dichotomy. Unionism is expected to reduce quits and permanent separations and raise job tenure by providing a "voice …
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Employer-to-Employer Flows in the United States : Estimates Using Linked Employer-Employee Data
Bjelland, Melissa - 2008
regarding job tenure and earnings dynamics suggest that for those workers moving directly to new jobs, the new jobs are …
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Immigrant networks and their implications for occupational choice and wages
Patel, Krishna; Vella, Francis - 2007
country. We also consider the earnings implications of these immigrant networks for recent arrivals. The empirical evidence … positive effect on their hourly wage and their level of weekly earnings. …
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