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Wage Discrimination against Immigrants: Measurement with Firm-Level Productivity Data

Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - 2016

Belgium suggest significant wage discrimination against women and (to a lesser extent) against immigrants. We find no evidence … for double discrimination against female immigrants. Institutional factors such as firm-level collective bargaining and …This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination …

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L'union fait la force? Evidence for Wage Discrimination in Firms with High Diversity

Grinza, Elena; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - 2018

discriminate against them. The wage discrimination in high-diversity firms could be alleviated through a stronger presence of …

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The Aggregate Labor Market Effects of the Swedish Knowledge Lift Program

Albrecht, James; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Vroman, Susan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997-2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of lowskill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labor market outcomes. This is done...

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Wage Effects of Educational Mismatch According to Workers' Origin: The Role of Demographics and Firm Characteristics

Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, Francois; Volral, Mélanie - 2021

This paper examines the influence of educational mismatch on wages according to workers' region of birth, taking advantage of our access to rich matched employer-employee data for the Belgian private sector for the period 1999-2010. Using a fine-grained approach to measuring educational mismatch...

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The Unemployment Impact of Product and Labour Market Regulation: Evidence from European Countries

Piton, Céline; Rycx, Francois - 2018

This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment using … set of covariates, results show that product market deregulation overall reduces the unemployment rate. This finding is … effect: deregulation of state controls and in particular involvement in business operations tends to push up the unemployment …

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Active Labor Market Policy Effects for Women in Europe: A Survey

Bergemann, Annette; Berg, Gerard J. van den - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labor market policies on individual labor market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance,...

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Wage structure effects of international trade: Evidence from a small open economy

Du Caju, Philip; Rycx, Francois; Tojerow, Ilan - 2011

In the last decades, international trade has increased between industrialised countries and between high- and low-wage countries. This important change has raised questions on how international trade affects the labour market. In this spirit, this paper aims to investigate the impact of...

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Does it pay to be productive? The case of age groups

Cataldi, Alessandra; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - 2011

Using longitudinal matched employer-employee data for the period 1999-2006, we investigate the relationship between age, wage and productivity in the Belgian private sector. More precisely, we examine how changes in the proportions of young (16-29 years), middle-aged (30-49 years) and older...

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Are occupations paid what they are worth? An econometric study of occupational wage inequality and productivity

Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - 2011

Labour economists typically assume that pay differences between occupations can be explained with variations in productivity. The empirical evidence on the validity of this assumption is surprisingly thin and subject to various potential biases. The authors use matched employer-employee panel...

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Swedish Labor Market Training and the Duration of Unemployment

Richardson, Katarina; Berg, Gerard J. van den - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

cornerstone of labor market policy. We analyze causal effects on the individual transition rate from unemployment to employment by …-parametric identification. The data cover the population and include multiple unemployment spells for many individuals. The results indicate a … diminishes after some weeks. When taking account of the time spent in the program, the effect on the mean unemployment duration …

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