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Employment, Wages, and Alcohol Consumption in Russia: Evidence from Panel Data
Tekin, Erdal - 2002
This paper examines the effects of alcohol consumption on employment and wages for males and females in Russia. Both … impact on employment and wages. Further, there is some evidence in favor of an inverse U-shaped relationship between alcohol …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262815
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Human Capital Mismatches along the Career Path
Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Neffke, Frank - 2010
redundancies. This results in superior predictions of individual wages and occupational switches. It also allows identifying career …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281656
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Collateral costs: the effects of incarceration on the employment and earnings of young workers
Holzer, Harry J. - 2007
In this paper I review the empirical evidence on the effects of incarceration on the subsequent employment and earnings of less-educated young prisoners. In this discussion I include evidence from: 1) Employer surveys and audit studies of hiring; 2) Survey data (mostly from the NLSY79) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268523
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293036
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Immigration und Arbeitsmarkt: Eine oekonomische Perspektive
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998
the labor market. Its impact on employment, wages and wealth depends crucially on the design of immigration policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262255
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The Impact of Structural Reforms on Wages and Employment: The Case of Formal versus Informal Workers in Bolivia
Spatz, Julius - 2003
privatization of public companies impact on the distribution of employment and wages between the formal and the informal sector. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260444
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Low skill but high volatility?
Buch, Claudia M.; Pierdzioch, Christian - 2009
-skilled labor increases. This suppresses wages of low-skilled workers and/or increases their unemployment rates. On the other hand … for the years 1970 - 2004, we document how the volatility of hours worked and of wages of workers at different skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271862
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The effects of California's paid family leave program on mothers' leave-taking and subsequent labor market outcomes
Rossin-Slater, Maya; Ruhm, Christopher J.; Waldfogel, Jane - 2011
examine how California's first in the nation paid family leave (PFL) program affected leave-taking by mothers following … childbirth, as well as subsequent labor market outcomes. We obtain robust evidence that the California program more than doubled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286886
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The effects of personality traits on adult labor market outcomes: Evidence from siblings
Fletcher, Jason M. - 2012
While large literatures have shown that cognitive ability and schooling increases employment and wages, an emerging … employment and wages and is also able to control for many other sources of heterogeneity, including attractiveness, cognitive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282340
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Differences in employment outcomes for college town stayers and leavers
Winters, John V. - 2012
experience less favorable employment outcomes along multiple dimensions. On average, stayers earn lower annual and hourly wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287699