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The research on immigration has found falling labor market outcomes of immigrants in many Western countries. In Canada … foreign work experience for recent immigrant cohorts and now composes the majority of Canada's immigration. It is likely that … enter Canada under. While immigrants for the most part are selected by the government, the selection process for temporary …
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There is now ample evidence of a rise in ‘non-standard work arrangements’ in many industrialised economies, yet only rarely does theoretical and empirical work probe the question of why the risk of temporary employment varies. Focusing on temporary employment, the author extends the scope of...
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The hedonic treadmill model for subjective well-being was subject to several recent empirical analyses based on individual panel data. Most of this adaptation literature is concentrated on how life events affect measures oflife satisfaction and happiness, whereas adaptation processes of domain...
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This paper examines two questions. First, whether and if so, to what extent real compensation growth has been systematically associated with labour productivity growth in the past five decades, once other factors determining real compensation growth have been taken into account. And secondly,...
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Labour demand and wages depend on the state and volatility of relationships within firms. Good relationships lower profit-maximising wages and raise firms’ profits and hence constitute an asset to the firm. Wages are lower because when people enjoy collaborating in the absence of wage...
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In this paper an alternative view of the relation between the wage level, wage dispersion, training incentives and employment is presented. We provide some theoretical arguments which cast doubt on the standard thesis that unemployment - especially in Germany - is mainly caused by labor market...
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