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the labor market. Its impact on employment, wages and wealth depends crucially on the design of immigration policy …
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among a substantial share of the population into account. Theory shows and experiments confirm, that even if fairness … concerns on economic outcomes. We also review evidence from laboratory and field experiments examining the role of wages and … fairness on effort, derive predictions from our approach for entry-level wages and incumbent workers' wages, confront these …
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by an intriguing puzzle - the large gap between the theory and empirical work. While the hypothesis that growing labor … consistent evidence in support of this theory. The primary contribution of this chapter is to document how recent research … - primarily since the late 1990s - makes substantial progress in resolving this disconnect between the theory and empirics. To …
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The numbers of migrants from the accessions countries have clearly increased since the enlargement of the EU in 2004. Following enlargement, the net inflow of EU8 immigrants has become 2.5 times larger than the four-year period before enlargement. Poles constitute the largest immigrant group...
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While economists were pointing out the advantages of the EU enlargement, politicians and policymakers were raising grave concerns about the significant political and economic differences between the newcomer states (EU12) and the old Europe of EU15. The major point of apprehension was related to...
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This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countrieswith markedly different …
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coverage on work-related training and how the union-training link affects wages and wage growth for a sample of full-time men …
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forms of work-related training received by men and women over the period 1998-2000, and to estimate their impact on wages … estimate the impact of training – controlling for its financing method – on wages levels and wages growth. We find that … employer-financed training increases wages both in the current and future firms, with some evidence that the impact in future …
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Using nationally representative, longitudinal data from the first 14 waves of the British Household Panel Survey we examine the labour market returns to inter-regional migration in Great Britain. Controlling for endogeneity, heterogeneity and self-selection, we find substantial long-run wage...
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, we find that household characteristics explain about 25% of the dispersion in wages within an age group in all three … countries. Second, the cross-sectional variance of wages is almost linearly increasing in household age in all three countries …
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