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between job tenure, wages and mobility. Both "job duration dependence" and "heterogeneity bias" are implied by this theory …
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We document several facts about workforce transitions from the informal to the formal sector in Vietnam, a fast growing, industrializing, and low-income country. First, younger workers, particularly migrants, are more likely to work in the formal sector and stay there permanently. Second, the...
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compensation than private sector workers, ceteris paribus. With respect to hourly remuneration (wages plus employer contributions … taking jobs in the public sector, either with respect to wages or pension wealth …
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highly profitable enterprises that are more likely to grow and pay higher wages. Using multiple establishment-level data sets … discontinuity design to estimate the impact of unionization on business survival, employment, output, productivity, and wages … barely lost. The analysis finds small impacts on all outcomes that we examine; estimates for wages are close to zero. The …
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"comparability" process determining their wages …
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Between 1940 and 1950 wage differentials within and between labor market groups narrowed significantly - the so-called 'Great Compression'. This paper disaggregates the Great Compression into its public and private components. Wage compression in the public sector, along with a decline in the...
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The wage structure in the U.S. public sector responded sluggishly to substantial changes in private sector wages during …
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This study addresses the legal principle of "comparability" that ties federal sector wages to wages in the private … the same wages in each sector. Estimates based on data from the 1982 CPS indicate males may have a slight wage advantage …-minimizing federal employer would pay wages no higher than necessary to attract employees and eliminate queues for federal jobs. If the …
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determine the probability of receiving training and its effect on wages and wage growth of young workers. More specifically …
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In this paper we analyze the effect of immigrants on native jobs in fourteen Western European countries. We test whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational distribution of natives with similar education and age. We...
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