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The main questions addressed in this paper are: First, how did labour markets in the Visegrad countries react to the breakdown of a command economy and the transformation to a market economy? Second, which way ahead is likely, or to put it differently, what should be done now to improve...
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immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their ineligibility for unemployment benefits and lower wage bargaining …, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter … effect if it targets employed workers because this leads to a risk premium in their wages. Finally, I present empirical …
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controlled for there is a further pervasive source of bias, namely the co-movement of firm employment and firm wages. In a simple … aggregate or firm level) to firm's employment and wages cause downward bias in OLS regression estimates of RTT. We show that the … between 3.5% and 4.5% of wages at 20 years of tenure — over 80% (50%) of the estimated RTT level itself. The results extend to …
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in the public sector receive wages based on negotiations between unions and employers. These agreements usually provide … robust effects on separation or working time, suggesting that the changes in labor income come from changes in hourly wages …
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in the public sector receive wages based on negotiations between unions and employers. These agreements usually provide … robust effects on separation or working time, suggesting that the changes in labor income come from changes in hourly wages …
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This paper examines the effects of collectively agreed increases in real minimum wages on employment transitions and … real minimum wages are associated with more separations, whereas hours are less affected because separated workers put in …. Labour-labour substitution seems to be important, since increases in minimum wages promote employment among workers with …
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This paper investigates the impact of minimum wages on employment and wages in Indonesian manufacturing firms between …, negative employment effects of minimum wages among small firms and for non-production, less-educated and female workers. The … paper also finds that minimum wages are more correlated with small firms' average wages than large firms', suggesting that …
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This paper considers the effects of union-bargained minimum wages on transitions into and out of employment in the … input, high worker turnover and binding minimum wages. The empirical approach identifies workers affected by real minimum … the outcomes for control groups, with wages marginally above those of the treatment groups. Unlike previous studies, this …
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This paper examines the effects of collectively agreed increases in real minimum wages on employment transitions and … real minimum wages are associated with more separations, whereas hours are less affected because separated workers put in …. Labour-labour substitution seems to be important, since increases in minimum wages promote employment among workers with …
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