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Labour-market institutions and the dispersion of wage earnings
Salverda, Wiemer; Checchi, Daniele - 2014
Considering the contribution of the distribution of individual wages and earnings to that of household incomes we find …
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Services, Offshoring and Wages : Evidence from Micro Data
Görg, Holger; Geishecker, Ingo - 2008
This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry … negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit from services offshoring in terms of higher real wages. Hence, offshoring has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014216489
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Services Offshoring and Wages : Evidence from Micro Data
Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2021
This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry … negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit from services offshoring in terms of higher real wages. Hence, offshoring has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325054
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The effect of overtime regulations on employment : there is no evidence that being strict with overtime hours and pay boosts employment - it could even lower it
Oaxaca, Ronald L. - 2014
Regulation of standard workweek hours and overtime hours and pay can protect workers who might otherwise be required to work more than they would like to at the going rate. By discouraging the use of overtime, such regulation can increase the standard hourly wage of some workers and encourage...
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Employment and Wage Effects of a Payroll-Tax Cut-Evidence from a Regional Experiment
Korkeamäki, Ossi - 2009
after the start of the experiment. According to our results, the reduction in the payroll-taxes led to an increase in wages … in the target region. The point estimates indicate that the increase in wages offset roughly half of the impact of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157349
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Does extending unemployment benefits improve job quality?
Nekoei, Arash; Weber, Andrea - 2015
insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. This paper estimates a positive UI wage effect exploiting an age-based regression … balance between two offsetting forces: UI causes agents to seek higher-wage jobs, but also reduces wages by lengthening … both in our sample and across studies, reconciling disparate wage-effect estimates. Empirically, UI raises wages by …
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Wages and international factors' mobility
Podrecca, Elena; Rossini, Gianpaolo - 2012 - Preliminary draft
The labor wage is the result of market variables and institutional settings of a country. In an open economy the determination of the market wage rate may be further affected by the extent of international mobility of both factors of production, labor and capital. Labor mobility is represented...
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Labour demand research : towards a better match between better theory and better data
Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro; Varejão, José M. - 2014
At first blush, most advances in labour demand were achieved by the late 1980s. Since then progress might appear to have stalled. We argue to the contrary that significant progress has been made in understanding labour market frictions and imperfections, and in modelling search behaviour and...
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Do Volatile Firms Pay Volatile Earnings? Evidence from Linked Worker-Firm Data
Strain, Michael - 2019
Despite the importance of earnings instability, little is known about its correlates or causes. This article seeks to better understand earnings instability by studying whether volatile firms pay volatile earnings and is the first to directly test the relationship using US linked...
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The effects of paid family leave in California on labor market outcomes
Baum, Charles L.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2014
and around the time that temporary disability insurance benefits are exhausted for women - is consistent with causal … life and possibly also on wages. …
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