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Estimates of union wage effects have been challenged due to concerns over unobserved worker heterogeneity and endogenous job changes. Many believe that union wage premiums lead to business failures and other forms of worker displacement. In this paper, displacement rates and union wage gaps are...
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wage losses of workers displaced due to firm closure based on the comparison of workers' wages differentials before and …
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wages of displaced German workers after they returned to work. We also present a simple new method to decompose the wage … wages of displaced workers after their return to work. Women experienced smaller wage losses than men. For both sexes, over …-displacement wages. …
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The long-term earnings losses of displaced workers are substantial. We investigate the role of post-displacement occupational matching in explaining the cost of job displacement. We combine German administrative data on the work history of displaced workers with information on the task content...
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The paper estimates how wages respond to changes in regional unemployment using detailed Swedish micro data. The study … is set in an economy with close to complete union coverage where real wages have grown continuously in all parts of the … estimated elasticity of wages. Wage adjustments are larger for employees with high unemployment risk and for new hires entering …
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unions compress the wage distribution by raising wages of workers in low productivity industries (or low-skilled workers …Trade unions are consistently found to compress the wage distribution. Moreover, unemployment affects in particular low … equilibrium framework. -- Trade unions ; wage compression …
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. Consequences of how the unions value members and members' status (employed or unemployed) in their collective maximand …
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What members do unions protect? This question is relevant to an ongoing debate about union wage distribution. This … at the work place plays an important role. In Britain, Korea, and Switzerland, unions increase the earnings of lower …
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status and earnings level. -- International trade ; employment status ; individual wages …
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This paper studies the impact of international trade on individual labour market outcomes in the German manufacturing sector for the period 1995-2006. Combining micro-level data from the German Socioeconomic Panel and industry-level trade data from input-output tables, we examine the impacts on...
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