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concerns. When controlling for both worker and firm heterogeneity and instrumenting for concentration, we find that wages are …
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controlled for there is a further pervasive source of bias, namely the co-movement of firm employment and firm wages. In a simple … aggregate or firm level) to firm's employment and wages cause downward bias in OLS regression estimates of RTT. We show that the … between 3.5% and 4.5% of wages at 20 years of tenure - over 80% (50%) of the estimated RTT level itself. The results extend to …
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the joint estimation of firm and worker fixed effects. We find that changes in ownership do not tend to affect wages …
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controlled for there is a further pervasive source of bias, namely the co-movement of firm employment and firm wages. In a simple … aggregate or firm level) to firm's employment and wages cause downward bias in OLS regression estimates of RTT. We show that the … between 3.5% and 4.5% of wages at 20 years of tenure — over 80% (50%) of the estimated RTT level itself. The results extend to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012995586
concerns. When controlling for both worker and firm heterogeneity and instrumenting for concentration, we find that wages are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469786
We present evidence about the effects of dismissals-for-cause requirements, a specific component of employment protection legislation that has received little attention. We study a quasi-natural experiment generated by a law introduced in Portugal: out of the 12 paragraphs in the law that...
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How much do developing countries benefit from foreign investment? We contribute to this question by comparing the employment and wage practices of foreign and domestic firms in Brazil, using detailed matched firm-worker panel data...
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with the law, we find that the wages and hours worked of older women (those required to work longer) were virtually …
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We investigate the impact of labour market concentration on two dimensions of job quality, namely wages and job … and local product market concentration, we show that the elasticities of wages with respect to labour market concentration … are strikingly similar across countries: increasing labour market concentration by 10% reduces wages by 0.19% in Germany …
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In this paper we show that panel estimates of tenure specific sensitivity to the business cycle of wages is subject to … removes a lot of potentially informative variation in average wages. Unfortunately cannot be identified in unmatched data …
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