Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 2,428
Cover Image
Wage effects of non-wage labour costs
Plá, María Cervini; Ramos, Xavier; Silva, José Ignacio - 2010
, which predicts an ambiguous effect on wages: firing costs are expected to increase wages, because they increase the … short-term effect on wages - and also on unemployment. We find larger effects for older than for younger workers and for men … on wages takes place during the first year of the reform. Our simulations also show that the increase in wages is mostly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269871
Cover Image
The influence of retiree health benefits on retirement patterns
Marton, James; Woodbury, Stephen A. - 2010
We estimate the effect of employer offers of retiree health benefits (RHBs) on the timing of retirement using a sample of Health and Retirement Study (HRS) men observed over a period of up to 12 years. We hypothesize that the effect of RHBs differs for workers of different ages - a hypothesis we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288029
Cover Image
Retiree health benefits and the decision to retire
Marton, James; Woodbury, Stephen A. - 2009
We estimate the effect of employer offers of retiree health benefits (RHBs) on the timing of retirement using a sample of men observed over a period of up to 12 years in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Our main concern is that such estimates may be contaminated by unobserved...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288031
Cover Image
Do labor costs affect companies' demand for labor?
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
Higher labor costs (higher wage rates and employee benefits) make workers better off, but they can reduce companies' profits, the number of jobs, and the hours each person works. Overtime pay, hiring subsidies, the minimum wage, and payroll taxes are just a few of the policies that affect labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404826
Cover Image
Do labor costs affect companies' demand for labor?
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - In: IZA World of Labor (2021)
Higher labor costs (higher wage rates and employee benefits) make workers better off, but they can reduce companies' profits, the number of jobs, and the hours each person works. The minimum wage, overtime pay, payroll taxes, and hiring subsidies are just a few of the policies that affect labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013266207
Cover Image
The effect of an employer health insurance mandate on health insurance coverage and the demand for labor: evidence from Hawaii
Buchmueller, Thomas C.; DiNardo, John; Valletta, Robert G. - 2009
voluntary market (primarily those with lower skills). We also find that relative wages fell in Hawaii over time, but the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269095
Cover Image
Is bigger still better? The decline of the wage premium at large firms
Even, William E.; Macpherson, David A. - 2009
This study shows that the wage premium paid by large firms fell over the past 20 years and that the decline in the size premium has been most pronounced among the least educated work force. Empirical evidence supports several explanations for the decline in the size premium. First, there has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269104
Cover Image
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292764
Cover Image
The impact of training on productivity and wages: Evidence from British panel data
Dearden, Lorraine; Reed, Howard; Van Reenen, John - 2005
It is standard in the literature on training to use wages as a sufficient statistic for productivity. This paper … an increase in hourly wages of about 0.3%. We also show evidence using individual level datasets that is suggestive of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292946
Cover Image
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293036