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Wage Structure and Labor Mobilityin the Netherlands 1999-2003

Borghans, Lex; Kriechel, Ben - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

In this paper we document the wage structure and labor mobility in the Netherlands in theperiod 1999-2003. We explain …

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Employment Protection Legislation and Wages

Leonardi, Marco; Pica, Giovanni - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

In a perfect labor market severance payments can have no real effects as they can beundone by a properly designed labor … contract (Lazear 1990). We give empirical content tothis proposition by estimating the effects of EPL on entry wages and on the …

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No Education, No Good Jobs?Evidence on the Relationship betweenEducation and Labor Market Segmentation

Pagés, Carmen; Stampini, Marco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs andself-employment in three … Latin American and three transition countries. It looks separately atthe markets for skilled and unskilled labor, inquiring …

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An Empirical Assessment of Assortative Matchingin the Labor Market

Mendes, Rute; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Lindeboom, Maarten - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

In labor markets with worker and firm heterogeneity, the matching between firms and workersmay be assortative, meaning …

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Labor Mobility across the Formal/Informal Dividein Turkey: Evidence from Individual Level Data

Tansel, Aysıt; Kan, Elif Oznur - Exploring the Causes of Frictional Wage Dispersion - 2012

Informality has long been a salient phenomenon in developing country labor markets, thushas been addressed in several …, heterogeneous andmultifaceted informal labor market. However, the existing evidence on labor informality inTurkey is mixed and scant … labor market states andidentifying the effects of certain individual and job characteristics on variant mobility patterns …

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Globalization and Employment: Imported Skill BiasedTechnological Change in Developing Countries

Conte, Andrea; Vivarelli, Marco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper discusses the occurrence of Skill-Enhancing Technology Import (SETI), namelythe relationship between imports of embodied technology and widening skill-basedemployment differentials in a sample of low and middle income countries (LMICs)...

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Efficient Tax Policy Ranks Education Higher Than Saving

Richter, Wolfram F. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

Assuming a two-period model with endogenous choices of labour, education, and saving, it is shown to be second-best efficient not to distort the choice of education...

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Employment Stability of Entrants in Newly Founded Firms : A Matching Approach Using Linked Employer-Employee Data from Germany

Schnabel, Claus; Kohaut, Susanne; Brixy, Udo - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

Using a linked employer-employee dataset and taking the perspective of individuals rather than firms, this paper analyzes some effects of joining start-ups. We show that entrants in new firms differ from those joining incumbent firms, and we use a matching approach to compare a group of...

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Better Protected, Better Paid : Evidence on How Employment Protection Affects Wages

Van der Wiel, Karen - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

This paper empirically establishes the effect of the employer's term of notice on the wage level of employees. The term of notice is defined as the period an employer has to notify workers in advance of their up-coming dismissal. The wages paid during this period are an important element of...

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Sectoral Transformation, Turbulence, and Labour Market Dynamics in Germany

Bachmann, Ronald; Burda, Michael C. - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2007

The secular rise of European unemployment since the 1960s is hard to explain without reference to structural change. This is especially true in Germany, where industrial employment has declined by more than 30% and service sector employment has more than doubled over the past three decades....

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