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Using firm-level and individual panel data from 2008-2009, the paper looks at how Hungarian firms combined employment reduction with "softer" measures like short-work and wage cuts, in response to the crisis. The data suggest that the wage distribution remained practically unchanged while hours...
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This paper reports the results of a Blinder-Oaxaca style decomposition analysis on Hungarian matched employer-employee data to study the gender pay-gap. We carry out the decomposition by Random Forest regressions. The raw gap in our horizon (2008-2016) is increasing, but we find that the wage...
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This paper reports the results of a Blinder-Oaxaca style decomposition analysis on Hungarian matched employer-employee data to study the gender pay-gap. We carry out the decomposition by Random Forest regressions. The raw gap in our horizon (2008-2016) is increasing, but we find that the wage...
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fact that firms brought hiring to a halt rather than engaging in mass dismissals. -- crisis ; employment ; wages ; working …
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We compare the wages of skilled workers in multinational enterprises (MNEs) versus domestic firms, the earnings of … domestic firm workers with past, future and no MNE experience, and estimate how the presence of ex-MNE peers affects the wages … employers in 2003-2011. We identify the returns to MNE experience from changes of ownership, wages paid by new firms of …
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estimate the effect of the reform on educational attainment, employment and wages in a comparative interrupted time series … men's wages, while not affected their employment. For women we found a positive employment effect, while wages have …
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While most empirical studies document that cognitive and social skills are strong predictors of individual earnings …, their impact is not homogenous in space. We argue that dense urban settings utilize cognitive and social skills more … intensively than rural areas, therefore the labour market return to these skills is higher in cities. Using data from a …
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I identify wage spillovers from the public to the corporate sector with the help of a large and sudden public sector …
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+7.5 percent from one month to the next, I study wage spillovers from the public to the corporate sector. I proxy the … wage effects and a corresponding elasticity of 0.96. The spillover affected primarily the wages of males, young workers and … the highly educated. The analysis also finds that employers raised the wages of incumbent, rather than, newly hired …
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