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zero to positive correlation with changes in native wages and native employment, in aggregate and by skill group. We …
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costs influence insider wages and outsiders? opportunities and how these costs affect employment and unemployment. We also … address the more complex, and open, question of how employment and unemployment move through time, in response to labor market …
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zero to positive correlation with changes in native wages and native employment, in aggregate and by skill group. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401693
This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …
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The division of parental leave among couples today is still unequal—even in countries with progressive leave schemes. Given the gendered nature of the workplace, we examine how organizational characteristics relate to fathers’ uptake and length of parental leave as well as to the perceived...
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[Objective:] This study examines whether paternal part-time employment is related to greater involvement by fathers in … child care and housework, both while fathers are working part-time and after they return to full-time employment …,915 fathers. Fixed effects regression techniques are used to estimate the effect of (previous) part-time employment on fathers …
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This paper investigates how the size of co-ethnic networks at the time of arrival affect the economic success of immigrants in Germany. Applying panel analysis with a large set of fixed effects and controls, we isolate the association between initial network size and long-run immigrant outcomes....
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full Danish flexicurity set of policies (low employment protection, high unemployment benefits and workfare). Our results …
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The paper analyzes the contemporary organizational restructuring of production and work and derives some salient implications for the labor market. The analysis focuses on the switch from occupational specialization at “Tayloristic” organizations to multi-tasking at “holistic”...
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The paper examines the implications of an important aspect of the ongoing reorganization of work - the move from occupational specialization toward multi-tasking - for centralized wage bargaining. The analysis shows how, on account of this reorganization, centralized bargaining becomes...
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