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is that the decline in the gap is related to the overall decline in wage inequality, the rise in minimum wages, and more …
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This paper formalizes the use of flexible labor contracts in an efficiency wage framework and derives market dualism as an endogenous outcome. By allowing temporary contracts to be either renewed or converted into permanent contracts, new theoretical insights emerge both on the equilibrium wage...
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training induce higher wages within jobs, and with future employers, even conditional on the future employer type. Because …
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This paper investigates how the job search outcomes of displaced migrants are affected by the labor market outcomes of past co-workers of the same nationality. For this exercise I use matched employer-employee micro data on the universe of private-sector employees in Italy between 1975 and 2001....
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Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment … rather than wages, at odds with the quantitative predictions of the canonical search model - even if wages are only … reservation wages, and consider an alternative reservation wage model based on reference dependence in job search. This extension …
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This paper analyzes the effect of educational mismatch on wages, using a rich panel dataset of workers in the major …, we find that the wages of people aged under 35 basically depend on the level of education attained, while those of …
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effect of relative functional specialisation on wages and non-wage working conditions. In line with the GVC literature … functional specialisation patterns on wages in EU member states at the industry level across time. While relative functional … specialisation in fabrication tends to hold back wages, functional specialisation in R&D has a positive effect on wage progression …
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This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages. In contrast to the standard approach in the … intermediate goods, domestic outsourcing tends to increase wages for both unskilled and skilled labor. We use a panel data set of … workers in Danish manufacturing industries to show that domestic and foreign outsurcing affect wages as predicted by the …
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their labour market outcomes and their quality of life. We interpret the negative effect on wages as evidence of labour …
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We examine the impact of discrimination on labour market performance when workers are subject to a risk of losing skills during the experience of unemployment. Within a search and matching model, we show that all natives and immigrants are affected by discrimination. Discrimination in one sector...
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