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This was the first paper to study exclusively the effects of Ramadan on the United Arab Emirates Stock market. In doing so, the study aims to establish such impacts with the intention of advising the investors on whether it would be profitable to invest during the holy month of Ramadan or no.The...
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This paper summarizes the findings of studies which investigate the determinants of wages in Germany, using data of the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP). The empirical analyses apply least squares estimates as well as the estimators developed by Altonji and Shakotko (1987) and Topel (1991)....
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We examine job durations of German workers using a linked employeremployee dataset. The descriptive evidence suggests that firm characteristics have a substantial influence on the job exit rate. However, the extent of dispersion in durations is not substantially lower at the firm level than for...
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Germany the group of workers with low tenure experienced higher inequality. …
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the group of workers with low tenure experienced higher increases in wage inequality compared to the group of workers with … high tenure. …
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the group of workers with low tenure experienced higher increases in wage inequality compared to the group of workers with … high tenure. …
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We provide empirical support for the contention that within-job wage growth relates purely to job-specific performance and that returns to general experience are assessed at the point of job change. Using the British New Earnings Survey panel data we identify job changes that take place both...
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the most rigorous evidence to date on several related dimensions of enduring debates surrounding upward-sloping earnings-tenure … in accounting for upward-sloping earnings-tenure profiles; our findings strongly support the agency view. Our second area … find that earnings-tenure profiles for employee owners are not upward-sloping but horizontal. In addition we find that pay …
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links between statistical discrimination, mobility, tenure and wage profiles. The model assumes that it is more costly for …
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is 24 to 29%, which is higher than the return to experience. Furthermore, we estimate a 35% return to ten years of tenure … in the formal sector, with no significant return to tenure in the informal sector. The difference in the sources of wage …
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