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Portugal, Pedro; Addison, John T. - 2021

This paper uses a unique Portuguese data set to examine the effect of unemployment benefit receipt and maximum duration … of benefits on escape rates from unemployment. The focus is on the time profile of transitions out of unemployment. The … disincentive effects of the unemployment benefit system is reported. This result obtains both in general and for the various …

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What Have We Learned About the Employment Effects of Severance Pay? Further Iterations of Lazear Et Al

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2021

In this study we examine the contribution of severance pay to employment and unemployment development using data on …-varying labor market institutions. While the positive effect of severance pay on unemployment garners some support, there is no real …

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Unemployment Duration : Competing and Defective Risks

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro - 2021

This paper examines the determinants of unemployment duration in a competing risks framework with two destination … unemployment. Although we do not reject the null of proportionality, abandoning the proportionality assumption does not materially …

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Job Search Methods and Outcomes

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro - 2021

Using Portuguese data, this paper investigates the effects of job search methods on escape rates from unemployment and …

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Wage Dispersion in a Partially Unionized Labor Force

Addison, John T. - 2009

Taking as our point of departure a model proposed by David Card (2001), we suggest new methods for analyzing wage dispersion in a partially unionized labor market. Card's method disaggregates the labor population into skill categories, which procedure entails some loss of information....

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Wage dispersion in a partially unionized labor force

Addison, John T.; Bailey, Ralph W.; Siebert, William S. - 2009

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Sources of the union wage gap : results from high-dimensional fixed effects regression models

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro; Vilares, Hugo - 2015

This paper provides estimates of the union wage gap in Portugal, a nation until recently lacking independent data on union density at firm level. Having estimated nonlinear and linear estimates of the effect of union density on the wage gap, the next stage of the analysis seeks to account for...

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Sources of the union wage gap : results from high-dimensional fixed effects regression models

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro; Vilares, Hugo - 2017

We estimate the impact of union density on wages using Portuguese matched employer-employee-contract data, extending Gelbach's (2016) omitted variable bias decomposition procedure to obtain the contribution of worker, firm, and job-title heterogeneity to the union wage premium. The principal...

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'Atypical Work' and Compensation

Addison, John T.; Surfield, Christopher James - 2021

Atypical work, or alternative work arrangements in U.S. parlance, has long been criticized for providing poorly-compensated employment. Although one group of atypical workers (contractors) seems to enjoy a wage premium, our cross-section results from the CPS and NLSY for the better-known...

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The Impact of Deunionisation on Earnings Dispersion Revisited

Addison, John T.; Bailey, Ralph W.; Siebert, William S. - 2021

This paper examines the effects of union decline in Britain on changes in earnings dispersion between 1983 and 1995. As part and parcel of the exercise, the effects of changes in the wage gap and the variance gap are also calculated. Detailed findings are provided by gender and broad sector,...

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