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Social networks and the labour market
Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita - 2022
prevalence of social networks in job search there is as yet no consensus on the mechanisms for why referrals are so important: an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471132
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Unions, efficiency wages, and unemployment
Wapler, Rüdiger - 2001
This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium dual labour market model which incorporates both efficiency wages and union bargaining with monopolistically competitive firms. In one sector, a traditional sector produces a homogeneous good and firms face perfect competition on the product...
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Social networks and wages: It is all about connections!
Sylos Labini, Mauro - 2005
Empirical evidence suggests that networks of personal relations are important in the micro dynamics of labor markets: even in modern capitalistic economies a high share of jobs are filled by social referrals. This paper aims at shedding light on an apparent puzzle concerning the relationship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328647
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Competition and Relational Contracts: The Role of Unemployment as a Disciplinary Device
Brown, Martin; Falk, Armin; Fehr, Ernst - 2011
When workers are faced with the threat of unemployment, their relationship with a particular firm becomes valuable. As a result, a worker may comply with the terms of a relational contract that demands high effort even when performance is not enforceable by a third party. But can relational...
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Endogenous Wage and Capital Dispersion, On-the-Job Search and the Matching Technology
Galindo-Rueda, Fernando - 2002
dynamic features of job-worker flows, wage dispersion and mobility as well as search on the job. The basic model is also … extended to endogenise firms? optimal investment in job-specific capital and search efforts undertaken by both employed and … identification of the wage offer distribution and may also bias subsequent inferences about underlying search cost parameters. …
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Strategic Hiring Behavior in Empirical Matching Functions
Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001
This paper makes two contributions to the empirical matching literature. First, a recent study by Anderson and Burgess (2000) testing for endogenous competition among job seekers in a matching frame-work, is replicated with a richer and more accurate data set for Germany. Their results are...
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Disaggregate Matching Functions
Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001
This paper deals with empirical matching functions. The paper is innovative in several ways. First, unlike in most of the existing literature, matching functions are estimated not only on aggregate, but also on disaggregate levels which is unusual due to the scarcity of appropriate data....
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Worker Flows, Job Flows and Firm Wage Policies: An Analysis of Slovenia
Haltiwanger, John; Vodopivec, Milan - 2002
Like many transition economies, Slovenia is undergoing profound changes in the workings of the labor market with potentially greater flexibility in terms of both wage and employment adjustment. We investigate the impact of the changing labor market for Slovenia using unique longitudinal matched...
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Outsourcing of unionized firms and the impacts of labour market policy reforms /
Koskela, Erkki; Schöb, Ronnie - 2008
This paper shows that outsourcing of parts of the workforce in unionized firms leads to wage moderation and as long as the share of the outsourced workforce is not too large, this wage-moderation effect on domestic employment outweighs the direct substitution effect so that domestic employment...
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Wage structure and labour mobility in the West German private sector 1993-2000
Alda, Holger; Bellmann, Lutz - 2005
Since the early 90's the West German firms have to deal with sharp changes of economic environment: the German Unification, the emerging competitors in the east European countries and the deregulation of several labour market institutions. We analyse the wage structure, the wage changes and the...
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