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This paper studies the long-term consequences on firms and workers of the credit crunch triggered by the 2007-2008 global financial crisis. Relying on a unique matched bank-employer-employee administrative dataset, we construct a firm-specific credit supply shock and examine firms' and workers'...
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-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the …
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that the introduction of minimum wages in German industries led to an increase in the share of solo self-employment by up …
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increases that ripple up to about the 0.6th quantile. However, the MW also led to declining real wages (stagnating nominal wages …
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increases that ripple up to about the 0.6th quantile. However, the MW also led to declining real wages (stagnating nominal wages …
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reallocation and the flexibility of wages in western German manufacturing. Using the plant-specific residual wage dispersion as a … proxy for wage flexibility, we find that more flexible wages are associated with less job reallocation due to demand shocks … hypothesis that more flexible wages should help employers in dissolving bad matches, this relationship is found to be most …
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This paper addresses the puzzle how employers that invest in general human capital can gain an information advantage with respect to the ability of their employees when training is certified by credible external institutions. We apply an established model from the employer-learning literature...
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This paper jointly analyses the consequences of adverse selection and signalling on entry wages of skilled employees … job applicants based on apprenticeship wages. It shows that post-apprenticeship employer changers are a negative selection … from the training firms' point of view. Negative selection leads to lower average wages of employer changersin the first …
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This paper jointly analyses the consequences of adverse selection and signalling on entry wages of skilled employees … job applicants based on apprenticeship wages. It shows that post-apprenticeship employer changers are a negative selection … from the training firms' point of view. Negative selection leads to lower average wages of employer changersin the first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957705
reallocation and the flexibility of wages in western German manufacturing. Using the plant-specific residual wage dispersion as a … proxy for wage flexibility, we find that more flexible wages are associated with less job reallocation due to demand shocks … hypothesis that more flexible wages should help employers in dissolving bad matches, this relationship is found to be most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097630