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immigrants are characterized by above average age and by professional occupations. On the other hand, labor markets for young … workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …
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I introduce taste-based discrimination in a trade model with imperfect competition and provide an explanation for the …-based discrimination mechanism at the sectoral level. …
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relative wage and unemployment differentials for various labour market defining characteristics. A simultaneous increase in the … relative wage and the unemployment likelihood is defined as a relative wage rigidity dynamic for a labour market characteristic …
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the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …
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Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …
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Aufbauend auf der Hypothese, dass Arbeitsmärkte durch unvollständige Information charakterisiert sind, werden in diesem Arbeitspapier neuere Entwicklungen innerhalb eines Zweiges informationsökonomischer Ansätze vorgestellt: der Suchtheorie. Dabei werden ausführlich insbesondere jene...
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Diese Arbeit untersucht empirisch den Zusammenhang von Beschäftigung und Lohnstrukturen zwischen sowie innerhalb von Qualifikations- und Altersgruppen. Zunächst werden Substitutionselastizitäten zwischen Qualifikations- und Altersgruppen geschätzt und die Lohnveränderungen bestimmt, die...
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This paper examines the determinants of gross labour flows in a context where modeling the migration decision as a wage-maximizing process may be inadequate due to regional wage rigidities that result from central wage bargaining. In such a context, the framework that has been developed by...
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unemployment is a non-monotonic function of the minimum wage level. Effects differ strongly by labour market segment. Cross …
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A growing body of programme evaluation literature recognises immigrants as a disadvantaged group on European labour … combat immigrant unemployment: training, job search assistance, and subsidised public and private sector employment. We find …
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