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This paper develops a multi-sectorial search and matching model with endogenous occupational choice in a context of structural change. Our objective is to shed light on the way labor market institutions affect aggregate employment, job polarization and inequalities observed in the US and in...
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This paper studies the cyclical behaviour of earnings risk and career changes. We document that the procyclical skewness of the earnings growth distribution arises mostly from the earnings changes of employer and occupation switchers. To uncover their relative importance in driving cyclical...
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This paper studies the cyclical behaviour of earnings risk and career changes. We document that the procyclical skewness of the earnings growth distribution arises mostly from the earnings changes of employer and occupation switchers. To uncover their relative importance in driving cyclical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014244266
This paper discusses the structural change in the Russian employment and explores whether the evolution of employment over 2000-2012 followed the scenario of progressive upgrading in job quality or brought about the polarization of jobs in terms of their quality. Jobs are defined here as...
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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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After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high … accounted for by a single proximate cause - rising employment and wages in low-education, in-person service occupations. We … automation. We find that in labor markets that were initially specialized in routine-intensive occupations, employment and wages …
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This paper examines the role of casual employment as a route into permanent employment. Using a competing risks framework we compare transitions from casual to permanent employment made within the firm and to other firms. We also examine the wage outcomes and job durations of these two...
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real wages received by skilled workers have declined over the generations, while those received by less skilled workers … times there has been a widespread drop in average annual wages. This decline in annual employment income experienced by the …
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disadvantaged). In doing so, wages and incomes, working time, and social security coverage are considered. It is shown that the gaps …, while 76 per cent of the wages gap between regular and disadvantaged workers can be explained by demographic and …
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