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literature for over thirty years. The wages and employment o typographers are examined to see whether they can be usefully … characterized as the outcome of a process by which the union maximizes an objective function containing wages and employment and is … wages and employment of these workers compared with our more general formulation …
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-defined negative causal relationship from wages to employment with the features of a conventional labor demand function. Using …Two propositions figure prominently in explanations for Britain's comparatively low growth in employment: first, the … wage-setting mechanism is insufficiently responsive to the growth of unemployment and, second, there exists a well …
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find no significant difference in the wages of workers in Miami relative to its control after 1980. We also show that by …
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, we find increases in wages, employment and firm-creation, especially in high-skilled manufacturing and knowledge … increased their employment within 20 minutes of commuting time from the border by four to five percentage points. The increased … inflow was constituted of highly-educated workers and it was associated with an increase in wages for highly-educated Swiss …
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There is a broad consensus among US opinion leaders that our economic problem is largely one of failures of international competition -- that trade deficits have eroded our manufacturing base, that inability to sell on world markets has been a major drag on economic growth, and that imports from...
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Based on administrative data from the federal employment services in Germany, this paper applies statistical matching … employment and unemployment chances of unemployed job seekers. If anything, temporary help work seems to provide an access … techniques to estimate the stepping-stone function to regular employment of temporary help work for unemployed job seekers. Our …
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labor market, looking at both wage and employment effects. Using the Regional File of the IAB Employment Subsample for the … period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and … employment levels. It had instead adverse employment and wage effects on previous waves of immigrants. This stems from the fact …
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policy. It takes Germany as an example, but it equally applies to the other large economies in Continental Europe. The paper …, will have large effects on the pattern of employment across different sectors of the economy and will require a substantial …
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In this paper, we investigate the effect of federal welfare reform on the employment, hours of work and marriage rates … employment and attachment to the labor market. TANF appears to have had a larger effect on the least educated native-born women …
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