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This research extends simple two-sector models in order to inquire the impact of the extent of coverage or enforcement of minimum wage legislation in one of the sectors on the equilibrium outcome. Two versions of institutional wage avoidance are presented. They may be seen as representing...
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This research extends simple two-sector models in order to inquire the impact of the extent of coverage or enforcement of minimum wage legislation in one of the sectors on the equilibrium outcome. Two versions of institutional wage avoidance are presented. They may be seen as representing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524877
When mobility between locations is frictional, a person's economic well-being is partially determined by her place of … birth. Using a life cycle model of mobility, we find that search frictions are the main impairment to the mobility of young …, lower average wages, and fewer possibilities for geographic mobility all contribute to these welfare losses. Paying …
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Interregional differentials in nominal wages in the Russian Federation are huge compared to other countries. Using the NOBUS micro-data and a methodology based on the estimation of the wage equation augmented by aggregate regional characteristics, we show that these differentials have a...
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understand migrants' housing priorities along their rural to urban transition. These housing priorities are the result of coping … forces of housing demand development along the rural to urban transition. Eventually, when identified, these forces can be …
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reduce migration. However, migration of the elderly, return retirement migration, as well as mobility of certain specialist …
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Internal migration can substantially improve labor market efficiency. Consequently, policy is often targeted towards reducing the barriers workers face in moving to new labor markets. In this paper we explicitly model internal migration as the result of a job search process and demonstrate that...
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investigate how the ethnic residential context changes for individuals as a result of different types of mobility (immobility …, intra-urban mobility, suburbanisation, and long-distance migration) for residents of the segregated post-Soviet city of … approach of tracking the changes in the ethnic residential context of individuals for all mobility types, we were able to …
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The mobility of university graduates is influenced by economic factors and individual attitudes. The paper at hand …
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We present new evidence on the wage and mobility of young and old workers, which is difficult to explain using standard … factor driving the lower mobility among this group. Because of the higher moving costs, older workers require a higher wage …
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