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Variable Pay Systems : Collective Bargaining and Wage Inequality in Six Different European Countries
Garcia-Hernandez, Rosa - 2016
Variable Pay Systems or Pay for performance suppose variable additional components to regular wages connected, for … European countries with different Collective Bargaining framework in order to analyze in which way Collective Bargaining …
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Robustness report on "Coercive contract enforcement: law and the labor market in nineteenth century industrial Britain", by Suresh Naidu and Noam Yuchtman (2013)
Campbell, Douglas L.; Brodeur, Abel; Johannesson, Magnus; … - 2024
Naidu and Yuchtman (2013) find that labor demand shocks in 19th-century Britain had an impact on master and servant prosecutions, as breaking an employee contract was a criminal offense until 1875. We first reproduce all regression tables in Naidu and Yuchtman (2013) and then test for robustness...
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The state of the economy at graduation, wages, and catch-up paths : evidence from Switzerland
Shvartsman, Elena - 2018
impact on the individuals' wages one year after graduation. However, there appears to be a partial catchup towards luckier …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011876213
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Services trade and labour market outcomes in the United Kingdom
Lassmann, Andrea; Spinelli, Francesca - 2020
employment and wages in the United Kingdom. It finds that firms can benefit from services trade, through increased employment …, production and productivity. On average, workers’ wages are also positively impacted by increased services trade. The findings … suggest that services imports enhance female wages more than those of males, thereby contributing to narrow the gender wage …
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Migration and imperfect labor markets : theory and cross-country evidence from Denmark, Germany and the UK
Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J.; Upward, Richard - 2012
bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and unemployment benefits affect the way in which wages respond to labor supply … shocks, and, hence, the labor market effects of immigration. We employ a wage-setting approach which assumes that wages … suffers more from further immigration in Germany than in the UK. -- immigration ; unemployment ; wages ; labor markets ; panel …
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On-the-Job Search, Productivity Shocks and the Individual Earnings Process
Postel-Vinay, Fabien - 2006
Individual labor earnings observed in worker panel data have complex, highly persistent dynamics. We investigate the capacity of a structural job search model with i.i.d. productivity shocks to replicate salient properties of these dynamics, such as the covariance structure of earnings, the...
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Temporary contracts and monopsony power in the UK labour market
Tabasso, Domenico - 2011
wages and a simultaneous increase in travel-to-work distance. Nonetheless, when unobserved characteristics are accounted for …
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Earnings and labour market volatility in Britain
Cappellari, Lorenzo; Jenkins, Stephen - 2013
We provide new evidence about earnings and labour market volatility in Britain over the period 1992-2008, and for women as well as men. (Most research about volatility refers to earnings volatility for US men.) We show that earnings volatility declined slightly for both men and women over the...
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Examining the relationships between labour market mismatches, earnings and job satisfaction among immigrant graduates in Europe
McGuinness, Séamus; Byrne, Delma - 2014
This paper uses graduate survey data and econometric methods to estimate the incidence and wage/job satisfaction effects of over-education and overskilling among immigrants graduating from EU 15 based universities in 2005. Female immigrants with shorter durations of domicile were found to have a...
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Temporary Contracts and Monopsony Power in the UK Labour Market
Tabasso, Domenico - 2011
wages and a simultaneous increase in travel-to-work distance. Nonetheless, when unobserved characteristics are accounted for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121764