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Estimating Equilibrium Search Models from Finnish Data
Kyyrä, Tomi - Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus (VATT), Government … - 2001
Empirical equilibrium search models have attracted a growing interest in recent years. Estimation of such models has not been completely successful, however. This has led researchers to develop more sophisticated versions of the models, in an attempt to get a better fit to the data. This study...
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Employers Size Wage Differential: Does Investment in Human Capital Matter?
Nasir, Zafar Mueen; Iqbal, Nasir - In: The Pakistan Development Review 48 (2009) 4, pp. 509-521
Wage differential due to employer size is one of the key areas of interest in labour market research because a strong positive relationship between employer size and wages has been observed in developed and developing countries. It is, however, relatively neglected area of research in Pakistan....
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The Economics of Communist Party Membership: The Curious Case of Rising Numbers and Wage Premium during China’s Transition
Appleton, Simon; Knight, John; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Why is it that, as the Chinese Communist Party has loosened its grip, abandoned its core beliefs, and marketized the economy, its membership has risen markedly along with the economic benefits of joining? We use three national household surveys, spanning eleven years, to answer this question...
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The employment of temporary agency workers in the UK – with or against the trade unions?
Böheim, René; Zweimüller, Martina - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2009
A firm's decision to employ agency workers may be perceived as a replace- ment of directly employed workers or as way to curb union power, which trade unions would oppose. Alternatively, trade unions may encourage the (tem- porary) employment of agency workers in a firm, if they manage to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008634617
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Temporary Agency Work in Portugal, 1995–2000
Böheim, René; Cardoso, Ana Rute - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
There is widespread belief that workers in temporary agency work (TAW) are subject to poorer working conditions, in particular pay, than comparable workers in the rest of the economy. The first aim of this analysis is to quantify the wage penalty, if any, for workers in TAW. Secondly, we analyze...
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Temporary Help Services Employment in Portugal, 1995-2000
Boeheim, Rene; Cardoso, Ana Rute - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
Whereas there is widespread belief that workers in temporary help services (THS) are subject to poorer working conditions, in particular pay, than comparable workers in the rest of the economy, there is little evidence on whether that is driven by the sector per se or by the workers'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005575203
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The Employment of Temporary Agency Workers in the UK: With or Against the Trade Unions?
Böheim, René; Zweimüller, Martina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
A firm's decision to employ agency workers may be perceived as a replacement of directly employed workers or as way to curb union power, which trade unions would oppose. Alternatively, trade unions may encourage the (temporary) employment of agency workers in a firm, if they manage to bargain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008578119
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The employment of temporary agency workers in the UK – with or against the trade unions?
Böheim, René; Zweimüller, Martina - Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of … - 2009
A firm's decision to employ agency workers may be perceived as a replace- ment of directly employed workers or as way to curb union power, which trade unions would oppose. Alternatively, trade unions may encourage the (tem- porary) employment of agency workers in a firm, if they manage to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008555463
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The Multi-Dimensional Nature of Labor Demand and Skill-Biased Technological Change.
Mellander, E. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1999
Investigating the robustness of the skill-biased technical change hypothesis, this analysis incorporates two novel features. First, effective labor is modeled as the product of a quantity measure - number of employees with a given level of education - and a quality index, depending on, i.a.,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005780378
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Anmerkungen zum Monopson am Arbeitsmarkt: Der Zeithorizont macht den Unterschied
Sell, Friedrich L.; Reinisch, David C. - Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und … - 2012
Ob die Marktform des Monopsons am Arbeitsmarkt vorliegt, ist fur die Frage des Für oder Wider des Mindestlohns von … Strukturen am Arbeitsmarkt nachgewiesen werden, die Einführung eines Mindestlohns nicht nur zu einer exogenen Lohnerhöhung für … gilt fur den Unternehmer mit Marktmacht am Arbeitsmarkt genau dasselbe, was auch fur alle anderen Unternehmer ohne …
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