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Frederiksen, Anders; Westergård-Nielsen, Niels Christian - 2002

We study individual job-separations and their associated destination states for all individuals in the private sector in Denmark for the period 1980 to 1995 and account for the cyclical flows. We find that individual and workplace characteristics as well as business cycle effects are important...

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Business Fluctuations, Job Flows and Trade Unions - Dynamics in the Economy

Schirwitz, Beate - 2013

This study was prepared by Beate Schirwitz while she was working at the Ifo Institute’s Dresden Branch. It was completed in February 2012 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Faculty of Law, Management, and Economics at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in July 2012. It focuses on a...

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Lumpy labor adjustment as a propagation mechanism of business cycles

Yao, Fang - 2008

I explore the implications of the lumpy labor adjustment as a propagation mechanism for aggregate dynamics. The model I use nests the basic RBC model with a staggered-job-turnover in the spirit of Taylor (1980) and Calvo (1983). It extends this approach by introducing a Weibull-distributed labor...

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Lumpy labor adjustment as a propagation mechanism of business cycles

Yao, Fang - 2008

I explore the aggregate effects of micro lumpy labor adjustment in a prototypical RBC model, which embeds a stochastic labor duration mechanism in the spirit of Calvo(1983), and it extends this approach by introducing a Weibull-distributed labor adjustment process to capture the increasing...

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Wage and mobility effects of trade and migration on the Austrian labour market

Hofer, Helmut; Huber, Peter - 2001

This study analyses the effect of trade and migration on wages and labour market mobility. We estimate wage growth … in the reactions of white and blue-collar workers wages and mobility to trade and migration. In Austria exports have a …

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Wages, experience and seniority

Dustmann, Christian; Meghir, Costas - 2001

human capital may be heterogeneous and where firms may offer different combinations of entry level wages and firm specific … human capital development. We allow for the the possibility that wages are match specific and that workers move jobs as a …

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How fast do newly founded firms mature? Empirical analyses on job quality in start-ups

Brixy, Udo; Kohaut, Susanne; Schnabel, Claus - 2004

labour turnover rates, ceteris paribus. Moreover, bargaining coverage rates and wages in new firms are lower than in similar …

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Descriptive Evidence on Labor Market Transitions and the Wage Structure in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Garloff, Alfred - 2005

close relationship exists between wages and labor market transitions as predicted by search theory. However, the noticeable …

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Training, Mobility, and Wages: Specific Versus General Human Capital

Garloff, Alfred; Kuckulenz, Anja - 2005

This paper considers training, mobility decisions and wages together to test for the specificity of human capital … contained in continuing training courses. We empirically analyse the relationship between training, mobility and wages in two …, we find that wages are lower for job changers for the group of training participants, so wages decrease when trained …

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A Wage Based Measure of Aggregate Human Capital

Cerejeira, João - 2004

. Keywords: Human capital, wages, income based measures JEL Classification: E24, J24, I21 …

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