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Learning through coworker referrals
Glitz, Albrecht; Vejlin, Rune Majlund - 2019
that referred workers initially earn 4.6 percent higher wages and are 2.3 percentage points less likely to leave their …-specific productivity with a probability of 48.4 percent per year. Counterfactual simulations show that average wages are 3.9 percent lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011997660
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The labor market impact of undocumented immigrants : job creation vs. job competition
Albert, Christoph - 2017
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688026
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The impact of skill mismatch on earnings losses after job displacement : conference paper
Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Neffke, Frank; Wiederhold, Simon - 2013
The long-term earnings losses of displaced workers are substantial. We investigate the role of post-displacement occupational matching in explaining the cost of job displacement. We combine German administrative data on the work history of displaced workers with information on the task content...
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Skill mismatch and the costs of job displacement
Neffke, Frank; Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Wiederhold, Simon - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - 2024 - This version: January 14, 2024
Establishment closures have lasting negative consequences for the workers they displace from their jobs. We study how these consequences vary with the amount of skill mismatch that workers experience after job displacement. Developing new measures of occupational skill redundancy and skill...
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Will Skill Mismatches Persist? An Investigation into the Effect of Skill Shortages on Wages in the UK
Morris, David - 2018
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014128094
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Which Workers Earn More at Productive Firms? Position Specific Skills and Individual Worker Hold-up Power
Bloesch, Justin; Larsen, Birthe; Taska, Bledi - 2022
firms to pay differentially high wages. We estimate individual worker hold-up power by occupation using the effect of worker … permanent firm productivity innovations to wages, supporting the main model predictions. Accounting for heterogeneity in hold …) hold-up power decreases the responsiveness of wages to labor market slack …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013295449
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When the minimum wage really bites hard : impact on top earners and skill supply
Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2020
-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270418
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When the minimum wage really bites hard: impact on top earners and skill supply
Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2020
-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271659
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When the minimum wage really bites hard : impact on top earners and skill supply
Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2020
-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012285605
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Labor heterogeneity, inequality and institutional change
Skott, Peter - 2010
US earnings inequality has increased dramatically since the 1970s, and the prospect of a reversal depends on what caused the trend. The standard explanation emphasizes skill-biased technical change. This paper briefly considers some aggregation issues and then proceeds to outline two alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008758088