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The Impact of Health on Wages : Evidence from Europe Before and During the Great Recession
Flores, Manuel - 2015
relationship between health and wages. Our results provide empirical evidence of measurement error in the self-reported health … variable when estimating its impact on wages for men, and of selectivity bias in wages for both men and women. We also show … (and largest) among older workers (50-64 years old). Instead, during the GR the positive impact of health on wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013017023
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The Wage Curve after the Great Recession
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex; Spurling, Jackson - 2022
potential for wage-push inflation. However, real wages are falling rapidly at present and, prior to that, real wages had been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014078744
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Improving the economic situation of young people in France
Boulhol, Hervé - 2013
The economic situation of young people is unsatisfactory. Educational inequalities have been widening for over a decade, due to a sharp decline in the results of the most highly disadvantaged students. The unemployment rate for the 20-24 age bracket has not dropped below 16% for nearly 30 years....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009767757
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The minimum wage from a two-sided perspective
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2014
, in which firms' job offer and workers' job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010371904
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China's Labor Market in the 'New Normal'
Lam, W. Raphael - 2015
As China implements reforms under the “new normal,” maintaining stability in the labor market is a priority. The country's demography and labor dynamics are changing, after benefitting in past decades from ample cheap labor. So far, the labor market appears to be resilient, even as growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016606
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Boosting Job Growth in the Western Balkans
Kovtun, Dmitriy - 2014
Labor markets in the Western Balkan countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia) are characterized by some of the highest unemployment and low employment rates in Europe. We analyze the poor labor market outcomes in these countries by comparison with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046311
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The US labour market after the COVID-19 recession
Gómez Salvador, Ramón; Soudan, Michel - 2022
-) employment, wages and productivity, and highlights the differences versus past recessions, with an emphasis on the global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013264673
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Addressing labour market challenges in Belgium
McGowan, Muge Adalet; Hijzen, Alexander; Law, David; … - 2020
Job creation has lowered unemployment, but the Belgian labour market still faces many challenges. Employment rates remain low, reflecting barriers to finding a job such as low levels of skills and weak work incentives. In addition, the changing nature of work will require faster adaptation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012203307
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The US Labour Market after the COVID-19 Recession
Gomez-Salvador, Ramon; Soudan, Michel - 2022
-)employment, wages and productivity, and highlights the differences versus past recessions, with an emphasis on the global financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014079702
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New technologies, migration and labour market adjustment : an intra-European perspective
Barišić, Antea; Ghodsi, Mahdi; Landesmann, Michael; … - 2024
results from a study that first analyses the impact of robot adoption on wages by sector and skills. Second, we study the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534524