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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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Job-hopping in Silicon Valley: some evidence concerning the micro-foundations of a high technology cluster
Fallick, Bruce; Fleischman, Charles A.; Rebitzer, James B. - 2005
-hopping for college-educated men in Silicon Valley's computer industry than in computer clusters located out of the state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272888
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Unemployment and Subsequent Wages: Does Gender Matter?
Wiklund, Fredrik - 1999
Are there any differences in how men and women fare from unemployment in terms of the wages they receive on a new job …? This paper addresses that question using the 1991 wave of the Level of Living Survey. The results suggest that men who … experience unemployment will suffer a reduction of subsequent wages while no such effect could be found for women. These findings …
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Thick-Market Effects and Churning in the Labor Market: Evidence from U.S. Cities
Bleakley, C. Hoyt; Lin, Jeffrey - 2006
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Wage gains among job changers across the business cycle:> insight from state administrative data
Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Pitts, M. Melinda; Robertson, John C. - 2004
This paper uses unique employer-employee matched administrative data files to determine that firm and industry employment dynamics play significant roles in the earnings gains of workers who change jobs and in different ways across the business cycle. Among the more notable results is the...
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Job durations with worker and firm specific effects: MCMC estimation with longitudinal employer-employee data
Horny, Guillaume; Mendes, Rute; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2009
We study job durations using a multivariate hazard model allowing for workerspecific and firm-specific unobserved determinants. The latter are captured by unobserved heterogeneity terms or random effects, one at the firm level and another at the worker level. This enables us to decompose the...
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Decomposing immigrant wage assimilation: The role of workplaces and occupations
Eliasson, Tove - 2013
This article uses a matched employer-employee panel data of the Swedish labor market to study immigrant wage assimilation, decomposing the wage catch-up into parts which can be attributed to relative wage growth within and between workplaces and occupations. This study shows that failing to...
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Displacement, asymmetric information and heterogeneous human capital
Hu, Luojia; Taber, Christopher - 2008
. Second, layouts seem to have more negative consequences for white men than the other groups. These findings suggest that the …
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Evolution of Living Standards and Human Capital in China in 18-20th Century: Evidences from Real Wage and Anthropometrics
Baten, Jörg; Ma, Debin; Morgan, Stephen L.; Wang, Qing - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009
This article mobilizes and integrates both existing and new time series data on real wages, physical heights and age …
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The Political Economy of Bank- and Market Dominance
Thadden, Ernst-Ludwig von; Perotti, Enrico C. - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich>; … - 2003
Legislation affects corporate governance and the return to human and financial capital. We allow the preference of a political majority to determine both the governance structure and the extent of labor rents. In a society where median voters have relatively more at stake in the form of human...
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