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The Trade-off between Unemployment and Wage Inequality Revisited
Bicakova, Alena - 2014
wage rigidity on changes in skill-group labor market outcomes. The results provide evidence in favor of the Krugman …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013058527
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Employment Adjustment and Part-Time Work : Lessons from the United States and the United Kingdom
Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel - 2019
We document that fluctuations in part-time employment play a major role in movements in hours per worker during cyclical swings in the labor market. Building on this result, we develop a stock-flow framework to describe the dynamics of part-time employment. The evolution of part-time employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012904591
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Uncertainty and firms' labour decisions : evidence from European countries
Martinez-Matute, Marta; Urtasun, Alberto - 2020
Uncertainty affects employers' decisions on labour workforce, as it does on capital. We exploit differences on how firms adjust their labour work-force when uncertainty increases. Using data from the Wage Dynamic Network Survey for 25 European countries, we first construct, opposite to usual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012284895
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Does immigration help alleviate economy-wide labour shortages?
Fortin, Pierre - 2024
I study the impact of Canada's expansive immigration policy launched in 2016 on labour shortages in six regions of the country, particularly in Quebec, which enjoys some autonomy of management in this area. I look at movements of the Beveridge curve, which draws the classical inverse relation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532497
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Skill demand and wages : evidence from linked vacancy data
Ziegler, Lennart - 2021
This study provides new evidence on skill requirements in the labor market and shows to what extent skill demand is … employment service, I identify the most common skill requirements mentioned in job descriptions. Because employers in Austria are … legally required to state the minimum remuneration for advertised positions, it is possible to relate the skill content of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012583545
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Will Skill Mismatches Persist? An Investigation into the Effect of Skill Shortages on Wages in the UK
Morris, David - 2018
This article explores whether a relationship exists between the skill shortages that a market faces, and the wages in … that workers in markets with higher levels of skill shortages receive higher wages, although this effect is minimal. For … the average individual in the dataset, a one standard deviation increase in the level of skill shortages would lead to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014128094
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A test of the "Krugman hypothesis" for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003
increases in the relative supply of skills and a relatively constant skill premium. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011448440
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A Test of the 'Krugman Hypothesis' for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2021
increases in the relative supply of skills and a relatively constant skill premium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319961
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The feminization of occupations and change in wages : a panel analysis of Britain, Germany and Switzerland
Murphy, Emily; Oesch, Daniel - 2015
-specific skill requirements and time investment - do not fully explain the wage gap between male and female occupations. Moreover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010476260
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By the Sweat of Their Brow : Welfare to Work in Los Angeles
Force, Peter - 2016
The nation's best known welfare program, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) was created to give widows and destitute mothers the means to stay at home and care for children. However, the entry of large numbers of American mothers into the paid workforce has created increasing tension...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993418