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more inhospitable routes. These changes are likely to place a heavier burden on illegal immigrant women as they are more … face of higher migration costs, only immigrants with relatively high expected benefits of migration will choose to migrate … immigrant women from Mexico relative to men as a result of higher migration costs: 1) A decrease in the relative flow of older …
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In this paper we extend a job search-matching model with firm-specific investments in training developed by Mortensen (2000) to allow for different offer arrival rates in employment and unemployment. The model by Mortensen changes the original wage posting model (Burdett and Mortensen, 1998) in...
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This study examines the effect of noncompete enforceability on training and wages. An increase from non-enforcement to … mean enforceability is associated with a 4% decrease in hourly wages. Consistent with reduced bargaining power, noncompete …
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rather than negative. The latter finding entails substantial increases in mean wages and reduction in wage inequality …
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We propose a simple test that uses information on workers' mobility, wages and firms' profits to identify the sign and … agents' payoffs are increasing in their own types, our test exploits within-firm variation on wages to rank workers by their …
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capital investment by crucially investigating whether there is a link between tenure and wages - this has come to be an … reasonably strong link between wages and tenure, allowing us to infer that a value can be ascribed to the continuation of …
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The coronavirus crisis has led to the unemployment of millions of workers and exposed a labor market that is full of poor-quality jobs. Policymakers intuitively resort to upgrading worker skills as a workforce response to the pandemic; however, the problem isn't with retraining. The nation's...
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additional information contained in profits, which complements the information from wages and transitions typically used in …
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Greece’s labour market entered the COVID-19 shock following several years of sustained employment growth and with wages … picking up. Unemployment remained high and employment rates were low, especially among women, the young and older workers. The …
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employers for the cost of learning, both a progressive tax and a tax incentive on entry wages are found effective. The tax … incentive on entry wages, though, can be used even with very large deductible entry payments and with overall negative net entry … wages. …
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