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Aufbauend auf der Hypothese, dass Arbeitsmärkte durch unvollständige Information charakterisiert sind, werden in diesem Arbeitspapier neuere Entwicklungen innerhalb eines Zweiges informationsökonomischer Ansätze vorgestellt: der Suchtheorie. Dabei werden ausführlich insbesondere jene...
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immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their ineligibility for unemployment benefits and lower wage bargaining …, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter … effect if it targets employed workers because this leads to a risk premium in their wages. Finally, I present empirical …
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simultaneously determined in market equilibrium. We structurally estimate the search cost distribution, the implied matching …
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associated with wages and vacancy duration. Using more than 1.5 million job postings administered by the Austrian public … jobs to wage postings. Moreover, I estimate skill associations with starting wages for a subset of vacancies which can be … occupation fixed-effects, there exists a robust association between the number of skill requirements and wages. In particular …
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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 …
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We propose a simple test that uses information on workers' mobility, wages and firms' profits to identify the sign and … strength of assortative matching. The basic intuition underlying our empirical strategy is that, in the presence of positive … (negative) assortative matching, good workers are more (less) likely to move to better firms than bad workers. Assuming that …
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Empirical studies of labor markets show that social contacts are an important source of job-related information [Ioannides and Loury (2004)]. At the same time, wage differences among workers may be explained only in part by differences in individual background characteristics. Such findings...
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Empirical studies of labor markets show that social contacts are an important source of job-related information [Ioannides and Loury (2004)]. At the same time, wage differences among workers may be explained only in part by differences in individual background characteristics. Such findings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325588
Empirical studies of labor markets show that social contacts are an important source of job-related information [Ioannides and Loury (2004)]. At the same time, wage differences among workers may be explained only in part by differences in individual background characteristics. Such findings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012734601
on whether it actually matters for wages, and if it does, what are the underlying mechanisms. We empirically examine … successfully find a job in a competitive market) to potential employers, resulting in lower wages; and 2) there exists a trade …-off between wages and search efficiency for quicker entry into local labor market. We also find some evidence that the informal …
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