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Better safe than sorry? : the effects of income risk, unemployment risk and the interaction of these risks on wages
Nagl, Wolfgang - 2013
We examine whether income and unemployment risks are compensated by individual wages. Using a portfolio approach we … show that the marginal income risk effect on wages is always positive whereas the marginal unemployment risk effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581770
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The Costs and Benefits of Various Wage Bargaining Structures An Empirical Exploration
Thomas, Alun H. - 2006
The literature on the relationship between the unemployment rate and wage bargaining fails to separate the offsetting … effects of a reduction in competition associated with centralized bargaining and the increased awareness of unemployment … externalities. This paper uses OECD data to distinguish these effects. While wages have become more sensitive to changes in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012782861
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Reflections on wage-setting
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2018
Central banks need to be concerned about wages since they are a major driver of inflation. Rising wages are needed to … expectations about inflation and future growth. Migration plays a significant role to balance wages across regions and countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131008
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Young FSU migrants in Germany : educational attainment and early labor market outcomes
Flake, Regina - 2013
This study analyzes the educational attainment and early labor market outcomes of young migrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) who arrived in Germany between 1989 and 1994. The results reveal that migrants have lower educational attainments than natives, and that within the group of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771160
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Perceptions About the Labor Market of the Bessarabian Students in Romania
Stefanescu, Razvan; Nistor, Costel; Dumitriu, Ramona - 2014
In the last years, the labor market from Romania was affected by significant changes. The economic recovery and the Romanian workers migration towards wealthier countries led to a significant decrease of the unemployment. Moreover, some sectors of the national economy confront problems given by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014142506
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The performance of immigrants in the German labor market
Beyer, Robert - 2017
This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011598931
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Wages and employment in the Netherlands, 2017-2023
Klinker, Iris; Weel, Bas ter - 2024
This research documents changes in employment and wages in the Netherlands for different types of workers. We compare … 2017 to 2023 using regression-adjusted wages to make sure changes in composition of the workforce do not influence our … slightly fallen. Wages have been rising for workers at the bottom of the wage distribution. From the median of the wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014541860
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Biased expectations and labor market outcomes : evidence from German survey data and implications for the East-West wage gap
Balleer, Almut; Duernecker, Georg; Forstner, Susanne; … - 2023
expectations and wages, and a significantly positive relationship between optimistic bias in job finding expectations and … search and matching model of the labor market. Removing the biases could substantially increase wages and expected lifetime …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014247564
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Biased expectations and labor market outcomes : evidence from German survey data and implications for the East-West wage gap
Balleer, Almut; Duernecker, Georg; Forstner, Susanne; … - 2024
expectations and wages, and a significantly positive relationship between optimistic bias in job finding expectations and … search and matching model of the labor market. Removing the biases could substantially increase wages and expected lifetime …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014466945
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Wages and employment in the Netherlands, 2017-2023
Klinker, Iris; Weel, Bas ter - 2024
This research documents changes in employment and wages in the Netherlands for different types of workers. We compare … 2017 to 2023 using regression-adjusted wages to make sure changes in composition of the workforce do not influence our … slightly fallen. Wages have been rising for workers at the bottom of the wage distribution. From the median of the wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014545239