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Do labour institutions influence how wages respond to the business cycle? Such responsiveness can then shape several …
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Using Difference-in-Differences estimation and data from the European Community Household Panel, this paper suggests …
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unpaid overtime. Their effective wages show a strongly procyclical reaction to changes in unemployment. Despite acyclical …
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cycle. While wages of the median establishment are moderately procyclical, 36 percent of establishments have countercyclical … wages. We estimate a negative connection between establishments' wage cyclicality and their employment cyclicality, thereby …
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cycle. While wages of the median establishment are moderately procyclical, 36 percent of establishments have countercyclical … wages. We estimate a negative connection between establishments' wage cyclicality and their employment cyclicality, thereby …
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Although the quantitative relationship between employment cyclicality and wage cyclicality is central for the dynamics of macroeconomic models, there is little empirical evidence on this topic. We use the German AWFP dataset to document that wage cyclicalities are very heterogeneous across...
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of workers in Spain. Real wages are weakly procyclical in Spain and focusing on differences in different phases of the … cyclicality in recessions. Furthermore, higher levels of unemployment do not translate into additional real wages adjustments when …. Nevertheless, wages of newly-hired workers are the most sensitive to the business cycle and exhibit the lowest asymmetric pattern …
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Three fundamental forces have shaped labor markets over the last 50 years: the secular increase in the returns to education, educational upgrading, and the integration of large numbers of women into the workforce. We modify the Katz and Murphy (1992) framework to predict the structure of the...
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In this paper, we show that the wage assimilation of immigrants is the result of the intricate interplay between individual skill accumulation and dynamic equilibrium effects in the labor market. When immigrants and natives are imperfect substitutes, increasing immigrant inflows widen the wage...
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