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The effect of public work programme in Hungary on private sector wages

Szabó, Lajos Tamás - 2020

The public work (PW) programmes have been the major active labour market policy tools since 2011 in Hungary. Majority of the public workers were inactive before the programme. Due to this the labour supply considerably increased in those district, which got significantly more subsidy from the...

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Monopsonistic competition, low-wage labour markets, and minimum wages : an empirical analysis

Bachmann, Ronald; Frings, Hanna - 2015

This paper investigates the degree of monopsony power of employers in different industries against the background of a statutory minimum wage introduction in Germany in January 2015. A semi-structural estimation approach is employed based on a dynamic model of monopsonistic competition. The...

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Wage theft, economic conditions, and market power : the case of H-1B workers

DeVaro, Jed; Norlander, Peter - 2021

This study explores what determines employers' violations of the wage contracts of workers on H-1B temporary work visas, which occur when firms pay those workers below the promised prevailing or "market" wage. A theoretical framework is proposed that predicts more violations during economic...

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Monopsonistic Competition, Low-Wage Labour Markets, and Minimum Wages : An Empirical Analysis

Bachmann, Ronald - 2016

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Monopsonistic Competition, Low-Wage Labour Markets, and Minimum Wages – An Empirical Analysis

Bachmann, Ronald - 2016

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Can wage transparency alleviate gender sorting in the labor market?

Bamieh, Omar; Ziegler, Lennart - 2022

Wage decompositions suggest that a large share of the gender wage gap can be explained by differences in occupation and … alleviate the gender gap. We test this hypothesis by examining the impact of the 2011 Pay Transparency Law in Austria, which … Austrian job board with social security spells that record the gender of new hires. To compare the pay level of vacancies …

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Biology and Gender in the Labor Market

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2016

Can biology help us to better understand gender differences in labor market behavior and outcomes? This chapter reviews …

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The (ir-)relevance of internships : signaling, screening, and selection in the labor market for university graduates

Frick, Bernd; Maihaus, Michael - In: Die Betriebswirtschaft : DBW 76 (2016) 5, pp. 377-388

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Labor Markets, Rationality, and Workers with Disabilities

Stein, Michael Ashley - 2000

Empirical studies of post-ADA employment effects foreground a phenomenon that is puzzling. Although analyses suggest that employing workers with disabilities can be cost effective, and despite a burgeoning economy in which the unemployment rate for most categories of workers has plummeted,...

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Minimum wages in monopsonistic labor markets

Corella, Luis Felipe Munguia - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 9 (2020) 1/7, pp. 1-28

Over the last 30 years, researchers have disputed the mixed evidence of the effect of the minimum wage on teenage employment in the United States. Whenever the minimum wage has positive or no effects on employment, they appeal to monopsony models to explain their results. However, very few of...

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