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on natives' wages and employment. If immigrants are relatively good substitutes for native workers, the impact of …
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ratios, in the presence of strong social norms against female employment. One such channel is women's desired labor supply … segregation decreases? Does the gender pay gap decline? We exploit exogenous variation in sex ratios across cohorts and regions … entered traditionally male-dominated occupations and industries, and the gender pay gap declined. These findings are …
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Offering higher wages may enable firms to attract more applicants and screen them more carefully. If firms compete in this way in the labor market, "selection wages" emerge. This note illustrates this wage-setting mechanism. Selection wages may engender unconventional results, such as a pre-tax...
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) skills. These results support the complementarity view of the coexistence of student employment and low-skilled employment …
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-driven categorization of required skill words and construct gender associations of different skill categories using word embeddings. Next … observed gender wage gaps. We also find that large firms require a more extensive range of skills, implying that …
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establishments (0–9 employees), subsidized Minijob employment comprises large shares of the work force, on average over 40%. For … these establishments, robust evidence shows that increasing the subsidization of Minijob employment crowds out non …-subsidized employment. Our results imply that Minijob employment in 2014 may have eliminated more than 0.5 million unsubsidized employment …
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on the positive and negative effect of intra-firm exports and imports respectively, on aggregate employment. The former …
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We document that fluctuations in part-time employment play a major role in movements in hours per worker during … part-time employment. The evolution of part-time employment is predominantly explained by cyclical changes in transitions … between full-time and part-time employment. Those transitions occur overwhelmingly at the same employer, entail sizable …
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industrial robots, affect the demand for workers of different education, age, and gender. We do so by exploiting differences in …
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establishments (0-9 employees), subsidized Minijob employment comprises large shares of the work force, on average over 40 percent …. For these establishments, robust evidence shows that increasing the subsidization of Minijob employment crowds out non …-subsidized employment. Our results imply that Minijob employment in 2014 may have eliminated more than 0.5 million unsubsidized employment …
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