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Incentives, learning, task difficulty, and the Peter Principle: Interpreting individual output changes in an Organisational Hierarchy

Barmby, Tim; Eberth, Barbara; Ma, Ada - In: Labour Economics 19 (2012) 1, pp. 76-81

This paper examines the way in which individuals' output changes as they are promoted within an hierarchical organisation. We suggest a decomposition of the change in output which allows us to see that changes in tournament incentive may in fact disguise part of the observed fall in output. We...

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Business cycles and wage rigidity

Bartolucci, Cristian - In: Labour Economics 19 (2012) 4, pp. 568-583

-the-job search, quits are procyclical and layoffs countercyclical. Using the European Community Household Panel (ECHP), we provide …

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Setting the minimum wage

Boeri, Tito - In: Labour Economics 19 (2012) 3, pp. 281-290

The process leading to the setting of the minimum wage so far has been overlooked by economists. There are two common ways of setting national minimum wages: they are either government legislated or the byproduct of collective bargaining agreements, which are extended erga omnes to all workers....

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The determination of wages of newly hired employees: Survey evidence on internal versus external factors

Galuscak, Kamil; Keeney, Mary; Nicolitsas, Daphne; … - In: Labour Economics 19 (2012) 5, pp. 802-812

This paper reports findings on the relative importance of internal versus external factors in the setting of wages of newly hired workers. The evidence, from a rich firm-level survey on wage and price-setting procedures in 15 European Union countries, suggests that external labour market...

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The pay gap of temporary agency workers — Does the temp sector experience pay off?

Jahn, Elke J.; Pozzoli, Dario - In: Labour Economics 24 (2013) C, pp. 48-57

It is a well-known fact that temporary agency workers accept high wage penalties compared to permanent workers. However, remarkably little is known about the wages of workers who regularly take jobs in the temp sector or who do temp work for a substantial period of time. Based on a rich...

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Labor force participation and pair-wise efficient contracts with search and bargaining

Engelhardt, Bryan; Fuller, David L. - In: Labour Economics 19 (2012) 3, pp. 388-402

A “constant” wage is pair-wise inefficient in a standard search model when workers endogenously separate from …

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Labor market rigidities and economic efficiency: Evidence from Spain

González, Xulia; Miles-Touya, Daniel - In: Labour Economics 19 (2012) 6, pp. 833-845

In the 1990s, Spain approved two labor reforms aimed at reducing the unemployment level and its volatility. Overall, these reforms involved two measures designed to induce firms to meet their labor needs via adjustment of permanent positions: restricting the use of temporary workers and reducing...

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Wages, implicit contracts, and the business cycle: Evidence from a European panel

Bellou, Andriana; Kaymak, Barış - In: Labour Economics 19 (2012) 6, pp. 898-907

We study the joint behavior of hours and wages over the business cycle in a unique panel of 13 European countries, and document significant history dependence in wages. Workers who experience favorable market conditions during their tenure on the job have higher wages, and work fewer labor...

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Earnings and labour market volatility in Britain, with a transatlantic comparison

Cappellari, Lorenzo; Jenkins, Stephen P. - In: Labour Economics 30 (2014) C, pp. 201-211

We contribute new evidence about earnings and labour market volatility in Britain over the period 1992–2008, for women as well as men, and provide transatlantic comparisons (Most research about volatility refers to earnings volatility for US men.). Earnings volatility declined slightly for...

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The effects of savings on reservation wages and search effort

Lammers, Marloes - In: Labour Economics 27 (2014) C, pp. 83-98

This paper discusses the interrelations among wealth, reservation wages and search effort. A theoretical job search … model predicts wealth to affect reservation wages positively, and search effort negatively. Subsequently, reduced form … equations for reservation wages and search intensity take these theoretical results to the data. The data used is a Dutch panel …

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