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Decomposition of co-worker wage gains
Boza, István; Ilyés, Virág - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 9 (2020) 1/8, pp. 1-31
We address the presence, magnitude, and composition of wage gains related to former co-workers and discuss the mechanisms that could explain their existence. Using Hungarian linked employer-employee administrative data and proxying actual co-workership with overlapping work histories, we show...
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Employment relations and wages : what can we learn from subjective assessments?
Lachowska, Marta - 2013
This paper studies the link between hourly wages and workers' subjective assessments of how easy it would be to find … opportunities and respondents who think they are difficult to replace receive higher wages. The results appear to be consistent with …
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Employment Relations and Wages : What Can We Learn from Subjective Assessments?
Lachowska, Marta - 2013
This paper studies the link between hourly wages and workers' subjective assessments of how easy it would be to find … opportunities and respondents who think they are difficult to replace receive higher wages. The results appear to be consistent with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081086
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Do Workers Benefit from Wage Transparency Rules?
Gürtler, Oliver; Struth, Lennart - 2021
transparency rules and their effects on wages. We find that these rules induce firms to behave strategically with the aim of …
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Do workers benefit from wage transparency rules?
Gürtler, Oliver; Struth, Lennart - 2021
paper contains a formal analysis of transparency rules and their effects on wages. We find that these rules induce firms to …
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Offshoring, Wages and Job Security of Temporary Workers
Görg, Holger - 2012
effects on either wages or employment probabilities in manufacturing. In the service industries, workers are affected in terms …We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular … significant reduction in wages as materials offshoring increases, while permanent workers' wages are unaffected or even tend to …
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Wage Incentive Profiles in Dual Labor Markets
Di Cintio, Marco - 2014
This paper formalizes the use of flexible labor contracts in an efficiency wage framework and derives market dualism as an endogenous outcome. By allowing temporary contracts to be either renewed or converted into permanent contracts, new theoretical insights emerge both on the equilibrium wage...
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Labor market news and expectations about jobs & earnings
Schmidpeter, Bernhard - 2023
. This suggests that firms and workers bargain frequently over wages, even in the absence of an outside job offer. Moreover … Foxconn's publicly announced wages. Investigating whether individuals act on their updated beliefs, I find evidence that …
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Efficiency wages : variants and implications
Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2016
Higher wages increase labor costs but improve the productivity of the labor force through several channels. If firms … take this into account and set their wages accordingly, the resulting wages may fail to adjust demand and supply but may … higher wages. All these phenomena are well established empirically. Efficiency wage theory provides an integrated explanation …
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The Productivity Effects of Worker Replacement in Young Firms
Murmann, Martin - 2017
previous research. Using a large and representative sample of German start-ups, I show that worker replacement has negative …
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