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This article studies the responses of real wages and labour market flows of immigrants in Spain for the period between ….85% drop in real wages for natives and immigrants, respectively. However, these differences only occur among low-tenure workers …
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on initial labour market outcomes including status, wages and employment stability, which persist over the subsequent ten …
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I propose a new mechanism for sluggish wages based on workers' noisy information about the state of the economy. Wages … higher wages. This increases firms' incentives to post more vacancies, which makes unemployment volatile and sensitive to … aggregate shocks. The model is robust to two major criticisms of existing theories of sluggish wages and volatile unemployment …
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of workers in Spain. Real wages are weakly procyclical in Spain and focusing on differences in different phases of the … cyclicality in recessions. Furthermore, higher levels of unemployment do not translate into additional real wages adjustments when …. Nevertheless, wages of newly-hired workers are the most sensitive to the business cycle and exhibit the lowest asymmetric pattern …
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This paper examines the impact of economic fluctuations on social norms, specifically exploring the link between changes in unemployment and shifts in attitudes toward gender roles in the labor market. The results are not immediately obvious, as the literature suggests several potential...
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This paper assesses gender differences in the effects of adverse conditions at labor-market entry in a developing region. Using harmonized microdata from national household surveys for 15 Latin American countries, we build a synthetic panel of cohorts that potentially transition from school to...
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literature. Our analysis is cast within a dynamic setting and the endogeneity of each outcome is assessed through the estimation …
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economic conditions at the time of hiring on future wages. Measured by the labor's user cost, the price of labor is …
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In this paper, we provide a comprehensive overview of labour market dynamics in Western Ger- many by looking at gross worker flows. To do so, we use a subsample of the registry data collected by the German social security system, the IAB employment sample, for the time period 1975-2001. The...
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