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An anatomy of monopsony: Search frictions, amenities and bargaining in concentrated markets
Berger, David; Herkenhoff, Kyle; Kostøl, Andreas R.; … - 2023
and then reproduce new reduced-form empirical relationships between market concentration, job flows, wages and wage …
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Immigration and native welfare
Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Kohler, Wilhelm - 2004
We unify two approaches towards identifying native welfare effects of immigration, one emphasizing the immigration surplus (Borjas, 1995,1999), the other identifying a welfare loss due to terms-of-trade effects (Davis & Weinstein, 2002). We decompose the native welfare effect of immigration into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294552
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The wage-productivity gap revisited: Is the labour share neutral to employment?
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2010
investigates its impact on the evolution of employment. Whilst maintaining the assumption of a unitary long-run elasticity of wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280741
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Causal effects of subsidized career breaks
Nordström Skans, Oskar; Lindqvist, Linus - 2005
The paper uses a quasi-experimental situation to analyze the effects of career interruptions on future labor market outcomes. Data are generated by a Swedish program that granted career breaks to applicants until funds where exhausted. Comparing approved and declined (due to lack of funds)...
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Explaining the contractualisation of India's workforce
Kapoor, Radhicka; Krishnapriya, P. P. - 2019
The employment structure of India's organised manufacturing sector has undergone substantial changes over the last decade with a steep rise in the use of contract workers in place of directly hired workers. Much of the existing literature has attributed the widespread use of contract labour to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099540
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Employer provided training in Austria: Productivity, wages and wage inequality
Böheim, René; Schneeweis, Nicole; Wakolbinger, Florian - 2009
, wages, and the inequality of wages within firms. While the average amount spent on employer-provided training is low in … IT-courses. We find a significant relationship between training and wages, the coefficient is about 0.05. We find no … significant effect of training on the inequality of wages within firms. …
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Care more, earn less? The association between care leave for sick children and wage among Swedish parents
Boye, Katarina - 2015
A number of studies have shown that women's and men's wages relate to parenthood in general and to parental leave in … influence paid work. This study uses Swedish register data to analyse the association between care leave and wages among mothers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440156
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Long-run effects of gestation during the Dutch hunger winter famine on labor market and hospitalization outcomes
Scholte, Robert S.; van den Berg, Gerard; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2012
The Dutch Hunger Winter (1944/45) is the most-studied famine in the literature on long-run effects of malnutrition in utero. Its temporal and spatial dermacations are clear, it was severe, it was anticipated, and nutritional conditions in society were favorable and stable before and after the...
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Convergence to fair wage growth? Evidence from European countries on the link between productivity and real compensation growth, 1970-2017
Theodoropoulou, Sotiria - 2019
. The second question is pertinent to the implementation of the 'fair wages' principle of the European Pillar of Social …
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The Employment Potential of Labor Intensive Industries in India's Organized Manufacturing
Das, Deb Kusum; Wadhwa, Deepika; Kalita, Gunajit - 2009
This paper attempts to identify and examine labor intensive industries in the organized manufacturing sector in India in order to understand their employment generation potential. Using the data from the Annual Survey of Industries (Government of India, various issues), the labor intensity for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807642