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This paper investigates social preferences towards unemployment and inflation in the United States. Estimating a … unemployment and inflation. However, reducing unemployment is more important to society as voters would trade off 1 point of … unemployment against 2.5 points of inflation. One point of unemployment costs the president about 4 points, one point inflation …
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reciprocity, locus of control and risk aversion, contribute to gender inequalities in wages and employment. Using the 2004 and … differences in psychological traits are more important for inequalities in wages than in employment. Differences in the big fiveʺ …, in particular in agreeableness, conscientiousness and neurocitism matter for both wages and employment. For the latter …
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This paper examines the relationship between intra-firm wage dispersion and establishments' employment in a theoretical … composition of the workforce in the establishment with employment. In addition, an increasing wage dispersion at the lower end of …
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This paper investigates the influence of industrial relations on firm wage premia in Germany. OLS regressions for the firm effects from a two-way fixed effects decomposition of workers' wages by Card, Heining, and Kline (2013) document that average premia are larger in firms bound by collective...
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In our paper, we analyze the impact of German employment protection legislation on the firms' employment adjustment … patterns. We explore a reform of the Protection Against Dismissal Act (PADA) in 2004 that decreased the employment protection … on IAB Establishment Panel data show no overall effect of the reform on firms’ employment adjustment patterns. However …
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This paper investigates the gender wage gap among skilled German workers after the end of vocational training using data from social security record. Using information on worker and plant characteristics for both the training plant and the current employer, results from standard decomposition...
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Hutchens (1986, Journal of Labor Economics 4(4), pp. 439-457) argues that deferred compensation schemes impose fixed-costs to firms and, therefore, they employ older workers but prefer to hire younger workers. This paper shows that deferred compensation can be a recruitment barrier even without...
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thirty years, the regional file of the IAB Employment Sample (IABS-R04). By drawing segregation curves and calculating …
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respondent on employment probability and labor income of men and women. In addition to mean linear and non-linear effects on …. -- Attractiveness ; Beauty ; Employment ; Wages …
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In Germany, many labour laws and regulations apply only in establishments above a critical size, and usually these … suggest that employment growth is dampened by firms avoiding to exceed thresholds. In order to minimize these transaction …
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