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I use a unique linked employer employee panel covering all wage earners in the private sector in Portugal to shed new light on the careers of immigrants. During the first ten years in the country immigrants close one third of the initial immigrant-native wage gap. I show that one third of this...
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There is a growing body of research that measures employment effects of the minimum wage by using longitudinal data on … insignificant negative effects on the employment retention rates of all adults and, most notably, male workers. Analysis of the … probability of employment retention across different hourly wage rates also show how sensitive this methodology can be to …
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, selective survey of the literature. Four fundamental questions are explored: how are unemployment, job vacancies, and employment …
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This paper investigates the impact on the wage distribution of the introduction, in April 1999, of the National Minimum Wage in the UK. Because of the structure of UK earnings statistics, it is not straightforward to investigate this and a number of different methods for adjusting the published...
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pay of low wage workers, narrowed the gender pay gap and now covers around 1-worker-in-10. The consequences for employment … employment effects. The reasons for this include: an impact on hours rather than workers; employer wage setting and labour market …
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wages, employment, occupations and locations of blue-collar native workers. The natives in the sample are initially in … positively selected natives towards occupations with less routine tasks. While we find no negative impact on employment, there is …
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Shimer (2005a) claims that the Mortensen-Pissarides search model of unemployment lacks an ampiflication mechanism because it cannot generate the observed business cycle fluctuations in unemployment given labor productivity shocks of plausible magnitude. This paper argues that part of the problem...
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as being on the short-side of their skill markets. The remaining workers match slowly, their re-employment rates …
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This paper is about the labour market consequences of creative destruction with on-the-job search. We consider a matching model in an economy with embodied technological progress and show that its dynamics are profoundly affected by allowing on-the-job search. We obtain that the elasticity of...
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The Beveridge curve depicts a negative relationship between unemployed workers and job vacancies, a robust finding across countries. The position of the economy on the curve gives an idea as to the state of the labour market. The modern underlying theory is the search and matching model, with...
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