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Concentration and other wage determinants
Martins, Ana Paula - 2018
functions regressions. Dependent variables are logarithms of the mean sector wages considered for each case. Some statistical …
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Women's Lifetime Labor Supply and Labor Market Experience
Hazan, Moshe; Maoz, Yishay - 2010
The pattern of joining the labor force only at an advanced stage of the life-cycle was widespread among American women … interrelation between women's lifetime labor supply choices and the dynamic macroeconomic environment. In our model women choose the … late-entry pattern only at early stages of the growth process when wages are sufficiently low and grow sufficiently rapidly …
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Labour market concentration, wages and job security in Europe
Bassanini, Andrea; Bovini, Giulia; Caroli, Eve; … - 2022
We investigate the impact of labour market concentration on two dimensions of job quality, namely wages and job … and local product market concentration, we show that the elasticities of wages with respect to labour market concentration … are strikingly similar across countries: increasing labour market concentration by 10% reduces wages by 0.19% in Germany …
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Labor demand on a tight leash
Bossler, Mario; Popp, Martin - 2024
We develop a labor demand model that encompasses pre-match hiring cost arising from tight labor markets. Through the lens of the model, we study the effect of labor market tightness on firms' labor demand by applying novel shift-share instruments to the universe of German firms. In line with...
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Immigration und Arbeitsmarkt : eine ökonomische Perspektive
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998
the labor market. Its impact on employment, wages and wealth depends crucially on the design of immigration policy …
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The causes and economic consequences of envy
Cabrales, Antonio - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 1 (2010) 4, pp. 371-386
In this lecture I first give an explanation for invidious preferences based on the (evolutionary) competition for resources. Then I show that these preferences have wide ranging and empirically relevant effects on labor markets, such as: workplace skill segregation, gradual promotions, wage...
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Employment relations and wages : what can we learn from subjective assessments?
Lachowska, Marta - 2013
This paper studies the link between hourly wages and workers' subjective assessments of how easy it would be to find … opportunities and respondents who think they are difficult to replace receive higher wages. The results appear to be consistent with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009761377
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The cyclical behaviour of employers' monopsony power and workers' wages
Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Schnabel, Claus - 2013
This paper investigates the behaviour of employers' monopsony power and workers' wages over the business cycle. Using … workers' entry wages are of similar magnitude as those predicted under monopsonistic wage setting, suggesting that monopsony …
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Globalization and wage convergence : Mexico and the United States
Gandolfi, Davide; Halliday, Timothy; Robertson, Raymond - 2014
Neoclassical trade theory suggests that factor price convergence should follow increased commercial integration. Rising commercial integration and foreign direct investment followed the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement between the United States and Mexico. This paper evaluates the degree...
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Optimal wage redistribution in the presence of adverse selection in the labor market
Bastani, Spencer; Blumḳin, Tomer; Micheletto, Luca - 2014
In this paper we allude to a novel role played by the non-linear income tax system in the presence of adverse selection in the labor market due to asymmetric information between workers and firms. We show that an appropriate choice of the tax schedule enables the government to affect the wage...
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