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fertility and labor supply, supporting women's overall health. …We present a dynamic life-cycle model of women's labor supply, marriage, and fertility choices that explicitly … incorporates mental and physical health. Correlated mental and physical health production functions are simultaneously estimated …
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One of the predictions of the insider-outsider theory is that wages will be higher in sectors (firms) with high labor … power tend to pay higher wages. In particular, we found that the threat of dismissal acts to weaken insiders' bargaining … power and, consequently, to restrain their wage claims. Moreover, the results also showed that real wages in Portugal are …
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wages positively correlated with the size of the firm employing them. To explain these findings the author augments the … their counterparts in smaller firms, while the laborers of the larger firms receive higher wages to compensate them for the … theory in a large class of plausible environments. -- Firm size and wages ; promotion decisions ; hierarchies …
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This paper examines employer-to-employer mobility by describing the individual wage trajectories along the working career. The model, which is designed to introduce optimal between-firm mobility, is based on the search, the matching, and the human capital theory. It is emphasized that hopping...
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Using linked employer-employee panel data for Germany, this paper investigates whether firms implement real wage reductions in a selective manner. In line with insider-outsider and several strands of efficiency wage theory, we find strong evidence for selective wage cuts with high-productivity...
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Using longitudinal data from PSID, we show the positive relation between labor income and the equity share of financial wealth is stronger for those who have a higher persistence in shocks to permanent labor income. The results support the hypothesis that the cross sectional variation in...
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Wage dynamics is closely intertwined with job flows. However, composition effects associated to the different sizes and characteristics of workers entering/ exiting into/from employment that may blur the "true" underlying wage growth, are not typically accounted for. In this paper, we take these...
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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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This paper examines the impact of the 2014 Italian divorce law on help-seeking behavior of domestic violence victims and femicides. I find that contrary to expectations, the reform, which aimed to make divorce cheaper while requiring mutual consent, led to a decrease in help-seeking behavior...
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This paper analyses the causal effects of educational mismatch on wages, individual health and job satisfaction. As … found when not controlling for unobserved heterogeneity. In the analysis on health and satisfaction effects, causality is …
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