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Wage losses and inequality in developing countries : labor market and distributional consequences of Covid-19 lockdowns in Turkey

Duman, Anil - 2020

We develop a possibility to work index (PWI) taking the ability to work from home and workplace closures into account. By using the data from the HLFS in Turkey, we examine the individual level determinants of PWI. Our findings reveal that PWI and ability to work from home are significantly...

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What Happened to Wage and Non-Employment Structures During the 'Dutch Employment Miracle'?

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2004

The Netherlands have experienced an employment miracle since the 1980s. This note investigates what happened to the wage, unemployment, and non-employment structures between 1988 and 1998, when both unemployment and non-employment rates decreased markedly. Surprisingly, I find no significant...

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Reflections on wage-setting

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2018

Central banks need to be concerned about wages since they are a major driver of inflation. Rising wages are needed to … expectations about inflation and future growth. Migration plays a significant role to balance wages across regions and countries …

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Biased expectations and labor market outcomes : evidence from German survey data and implications for the East-West wage gap

Balleer, Almut; Duernecker, Georg; Forstner, Susanne; … - 2023

expectations and wages, and a significantly positive relationship between optimistic bias in job finding expectations and … search and matching model of the labor market. Removing the biases could substantially increase wages and expected lifetime …

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Biased expectations and labor market outcomes : evidence from German survey data and implications for the East-West wage gap

Balleer, Almut; Duernecker, Georg; Forstner, Susanne; … - 2024

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On the identification of relative wage rigidity dynamics : a proposal for a methodology on cross-section data and empirical evidence for Poland in transition

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2000

We present a new and simple empirical methodology to identify relative wage rigidity dynamics. The methodology is applied to data from the Polish Labour Force Survey for the period 1994 to 1998. We estimate ceteris paribus changes in relative wage and unemployment differentials for various...

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Offshoring of medium-skill jobs, polarization, and productivity effect : implications for wages and low-skill unemployment

Vallizadeh, Ehsan; Muysken, Joan; Ziesemer, Thomas - 2015

We examine the effects of endogenous offshoring on cost-efficiency, wages and unemployment in a task-assignment model … downward pressure on all wages through domestic skill-task reallocation. If elasticities of task substitution are low (high …), the downward pressure on wages in neighboring skill segments is low (high) with a net effect of higher (lower) wages and …

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