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Low wage returns to schooling in a developing country : evidence from a major policy reform in Turkey
Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2015
In this paper, we estimate the returns on schooling for young men and women in Turkey using the exogenous and substantial variation in schooling across birth-cohorts brought about by the 1997 reform of compulsory schooling. We estimate that among 18- to 26-year-olds, the return from an extra...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309044
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Does better pre-migration performance accelerate immigrants' wage assimilation? : conference paper
Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Toomet, Ott; Hochfellner, … - 2013
This paper analyzes wage assimilation of ethnic German immigrants to Germany. We use unique administrative data that include a standardized measure of immigrants' pre-migration wage based on occupation, industry, tenure, qualification, and the German wage structure. We find that immigrants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010341074
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The impact of mass migration of Syrians on the Turkish labor market
Aksu, Ege; Erzan, Refik; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012116199
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The impact of mass migration of Syrians on the Turkish labor market
Aksu, Ege; Erzan, Refik; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2018
. Despite the massive size of the migrant influx, no adverse effects on the average wages of men or women or on total employment … in the informal sector, whereas both wage employment and wages of men in the formal sector increase. Our findings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011959622
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The cyclical behaviour of employers' monopsony power and workers' wages : conference paper
Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Schnabel, Claus - 2014
This paper investigates the behaviour of employers' monopsony power and workers' wages over the business cycle. Using … workers' entry wages are of similar magnitude as those predicted under monopsonistic wage setting, suggesting that monopsony …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010485288
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The effect of housework on wages in Germany : no impact at all
Hirsch, Boris; Konietzko, Thorsten - 2011
This paper presents evidence on the impact of hours spent on housework activities on individuals’ wages for Germany … international literature, we find no negative effect of housework on wages. This holds for men and women, for married and single …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009373376
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Does better pre-migration performance accelerate immigrants' wage assimilation?
Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Toomet, Ott; Hochfellner, … - 2013
This paper analyzes wage assimilation of ethnic German immigrants to Germany. We use unique administrative data that include a standardized measure of immigrants' pre-migration wage based on occupation, industry, tenure, qualification, and the German wage structure. We find that immigrants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009717786
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The cyclical behaviour of employers' monopsony power and workers' wages
Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Schnabel, Claus - 2013
This paper investigates the behaviour of employers' monopsony power and workers' wages over the business cycle. Using … workers' entry wages are of similar magnitude as those predicted under monopsonistic wage setting, suggesting that monopsony …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010222161
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The cyclical behaviour of employers' monopsony power and workers' wages
Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Schnabel, Claus - 2013
This paper investigates the behaviour of employers' monopsony power and workers' wages over the business cycle. Using … workers' entry wages are of similar magnitude as those predicted under monopsonistic wage setting, suggesting that monopsony …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010225884
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Organised labour, labour market imperfections, and employer wage premia
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Hirsch, Boris; Müller, Steffen; … - 2020
exception. Wage mark-downs, that is wages below the marginal revenue product of labour rooted in employers' monopsony power, are … and intensity of wage mark-downs whereas the opposite holds for wage mark-ups, that is wages above the marginal revenue …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012383706