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costs influence insider wages and outsiders? opportunities and how these costs affect employment and unemployment. We also …
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What are the sources of wage growth in developing countries? In the US, general labor market experience is the key source of wage growth, with job seniority playing a smaller role. By contrast, in Indonesia, the 10-year return to seniority is 24 to 29%, which is higher than the return to...
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How do employers attract the right workers? How important are posted wages vs. other job characteristics? Using data … from the leading job board CareerBuilder.com, we show that most vacancies do not post wages, and, for those that do, job …
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In this paper we use a newly constructed dataset following 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to labor market and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic performance and their labor market income. We...
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poverty likelihood and poverty gap, an increase in the probability of employment and an increase in wages. Our results provide … the old system. We also provide evidence of higher wages for select participants. We do not find any consistent evidence …
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It has become orthodox in economics research to interpret the association between hourly earnings and working hours as the expression of the preferences of workers. This convention originated in H. Gregg Lewis' explanation for the decline in hours of work since the nineteenth century. His...
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In this paper, we estimate the returns on schooling for young men and women in Turkey using the exogenous and substantial variation in schooling across birth-cohorts brought about by the 1997 reform of compulsory schooling. We estimate that among 18- to 26-year-olds, the return from an extra...
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zero to positive correlation with changes in native wages and native employment, in aggregate and by skill group. We …
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We examine the association between brain types and wages using the UK Behavioural Study dataset for the period 2011 to …
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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 …
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