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Assortative Mating and Divorce: Evidence from Austrian Register Data

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2009

, without the rise in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be considerably higher. Immigration and secularization, and the …

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Can capital-skill complementarity explain the rising skill premium in developing countries? Evidence from Peru

Mazumdar, Joy; Quispe-Agnoli, Myriam - 2004

The factors behind the increase in the relative wages of skilled workers in developing countries are still not well … the wage bill share and relative wages of skilled labor. This finding is contrary to the commonly held view that …

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The labor market experience and impact of undocumented workers

Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Quispe-Agnoli, Myriam - 2008

Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, the authors find that average wages among documented workers are … further lowers wages. In addition, undocumented workers have significantly lower labor supply elasticity, likely as a result …

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The wage impact of undocumented workers

Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Quispe-Agnoli, Myriam; Rios-Avila, … - 2012

Using administrative, individual-level, longitudinal data from the state of Georgia, this paper finds that a documented worker employed by a firm that hires undocumented workers can expect to earn 0.15 percent less than if employed by a firm that does not hire undocumented workers. However, in...

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On the Persistence of Job Creation in Old and New Firms

Böheim, René; Stiglbauer, Alfred; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2008

We suggest a new method to analyze the success of firm creation by looking at the persistence of new jobs created in old and in new firms. Compared to survival rates of new versus old firms, this measure has the advantage that the sustainability of job creation in different circumstances is...

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Labor market policy in Austria during the crises

Hofer, Helmut; Weber, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2013

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The wage expectations of European college students

Brunello, Giorgio; Lucifora, Claudio; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2001

variation across universities and fields. We also examine the trade-off between expected starting wages and wage growth. In the …

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Labor Market Entry and Earnings Dynamics: Bayesian Inference Using Mixtures-of-Experts Markov Chain Clustering

Frühwirth-Schnatter, Sylvia; Weber, Andrea; … - 2010

This paper analyzes patterns in the earnings development of young labor market en- trants over their life cycle. We identify four distinctly di®erent types of transition patterns between discrete earnings states in a large administrative data set. Further, we investigate the e®ects of labor...

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Does the color of the collar matter? Firm specific human capital and post-displacement outcomes

Schwerdt, Guido; Ichino, Andrea; Ruf, Oliver; … - 2008

We investigate whether the costs of job displacement differ between blue collar and white collar workers. In the short run earnings and employment losses are substantial for both groups but stronger for white collar workes. In the long run, there are only weak effects for blue collar workers but...

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Mentoring and Segregation: Female-Led Firms and Gender Wage Policies

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2007

We explore the impact of mentoring of females and gender segregation on wages using a large longitudinal data set for … Portugal. Female managers can protect and mentor female employees by paying them higher wages than male-led firms would do. We … find that females can enjoy higher wages in female-led firms, the opposite being true for males. In both cases is a higher …

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