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Real wage growth over the business cycle:contractual versus spot markets

Bellou, Andriana; Kaymak, Baris - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

We study the wage growth of job stayers over the business cycle, and show that wage adjustments within a job spell display significant history dependence. This is at odds with the spot market model, which implies that the wage growth of a worker within a job spell depends solely on the change in...

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Do high incomes reflect individual performance? The determinants of high incomes in Germany

Hirschel, Dierk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

In neoclassical economic theory the level of individual income is predominantly determined by individual job performance. Thus high incomes reflect the high marginal productivity of labour of the affluent working population. While the scientific research of poverty has a long tradition, nearly...

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Immigration, Wages, and Growth in the Host Nations

Mideksa, Torben - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This paper investigates the impact of skilled immigrants on the welfare the host natives. By employing the idea of induced technical change, and the skilled wage premium, this paper tries to link skilled immigration with observed rise in college enrolment, rise in skilled wages, and further...

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Human Capital Spillovers in the Workplace: Labor Diversity and Productivity

Navon, Guy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The paper studies the relationship between human capital spillovers and productivity using a unique longitudinal matched employer–employee dataset of Israeli manufacturing plants that contains individual records on all plant employees. I focus on the within-plant diversity of employees’...

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Employers Size Wage Differential: Does Investment in Human Capital Matter?

Nasir, Zafar Mueen; Iqbal, Nasir - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Wage differential due to employer size is one of the key areas of interest in labor market research because a strong positive relationship between employer size and wages has been observed in developed and developing countries. It is, however, relatively neglected area of research in Pakistan....

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Job search with ubiquity and the wage distribution

Decreuse, Bruno; Zylberberg, André - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

We propose a search equilibrium model in which homogenous firms post wages along with a vacancy to attract job-seekers, while homogenous unemployed workers invest in costly search. The key innovation relies on the organization of the search market and the search behavior of the job-seekers. The...

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Workers on the move: migrated labour in post-reform india

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Migration is a universal phenomenon. From time immemorial women and men have travelled in search of better living … migration of due to Push factors will decrease while that due to Pull factors will increase. One of the important facets of … migration in Indian context, recent studies on migration in India have focussed mainly on rural-urban migration or on migration …

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Earnings Dynamics of Men and Women in Finland: Permanent Inequality versus Earnings Instability

Kässi, Otto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

I decompose the variance of earnings of Finnish male and female workers to its permanent and transitory components and study their evolution between the years 1998 and 2007. I find that the increasing earnings inequality of men and women is driven by both transitory and permanent components of...

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Wage incentive profiles in dual labour markets

Grassi, Emanuele; Di Cintio, Marco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

We propose a modified version of the Shapiro-Stiglitz’s (1984) efficiency wage model by introducing temporary contracts in the standard setup. New theoretical insights emerge on the incentive problem faced by workers and firms. We argue that the existence of temporary contracts broaden the...

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Decent work in Bulgaria

Beleva, Iskra; Tzanov, Vasil - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This study develops the issue of Decent work in Bulgaria focusing on employment conditions e.g. employment contracts, working time, wages, health and safety at work place, access to training, conciliation of work and family, as well as some specific issues like child labour, in particular. When...

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