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The Trade-off between Unemployment and Wage Inequality Revisited
Bicakova, Alena - 2014
wage rigidity on changes in skill-group labor market outcomes. The results provide evidence in favor of the Krugman …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013058527
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Skill wage premia, employment, and cohort effects: are workers in Germany all of the same type?
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten - 2006
subsample 1975{1997. It extends the analytical framework of Card and Lemieux (2001) which simultaneously includes skill and age … as important dimensions of heterogeneity. After having identified cohort effects in skill wage premia and in the … evolution of relative employment measures, we estimate elasticities of substitution between employees in three different skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297815
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Skill wage premia, employment, and cohort effects: are workers in Germany all of the same type?
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006
subsample 1975{1997. It extends the analytical framework of Card and Lemieux (2001) which simultaneously includes skill and age … as important dimensions of heterogeneity. After having identified cohort effects in skill wage premia and in the … evolution of relative employment measures, we estimate elasticities of substitution between employees in three different skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098021
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Investment tax credits and the response of firms
Lerche, Adrian - 2019
evidence that the average firm adjusts its skill mix or occupational structure, firms in industries with higher investment … shares into information and communications technology (ICT) are more likely to shift towards highly educated labor and high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265479
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Refugee migration, labor demand,and local employment
Auer, Daniel; Götz, Lilia - 2021
Whether or not immigration negatively affects the labor market outcomes of natives is an ongoing debate. One of the challenges for empirical evidence is the simultaneity of supply- and demand-side effects. To isolate the demand side, we focus on recent refugees in Germany who are exogenously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012672276
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The tail of two countries : minimum wages and employment in France and the United States
Abowd, John M.; Kramarz, Francis; Margolis, David N.; … - 2000
We use longitudinal individual wage and employment data in France and the United States to investigate the effect of changes in the real minimum wage rate on an individual's employment status. We focus on workers employed at wages close enough to the minimum in a reference year as to be illegal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339095
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Flexible work arrangements in low wage jobs: evidence from job vacancy data
Adams, Abi; Balgova, Maria; Qian, Matthias - 2020
In this paper, we analyze firm demand for flexible jobs by exploiting the language used to describe work arrangements in job vacancies. We take a supervised machine learning approach to classify the work arrangements described in more than 46 million UK job vacancies. We highlight the existence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290719
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Staggered contracts and unemployment during recessions
Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Díez-Catalán, Luis; … - 2022
province-industry-skill specific minimum wage floors for all workers. We show that agreements signed after the onset of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471360
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Low-Skilled Unemployment, Biased Technological Shocks and Job Competition
Pierrard, Olivier; Sneessens, Henri R. - 2021
"skill bias" and "crowding-out" mechanisms. When such interactions are accounted for, the model reproduces quite well the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319926
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Job search during the covid-19 crisis
Hensvik, Lena; Le Barbanchon, Thomas; Rathelot, Roland - 2021
This paper measures the job-search responses to the COVID-19 pandemic using realtime data on vacancy postings and job ad views on Sweden's largest online job board. First, new vacancy postings drop by 40%, similar to the US. Second, job seekers respond by searching less intensively, to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419555