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Arbeit auf Abruf und Arbeitsmarktdynamik in der Schweiz: Evaluation eines (weitgehend) nicht regulierten Beschäftigungsverhältnisses
Henneberger, Fred; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; Ziegler, Alexandre - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES) 142 (2006) I, pp. 39-78
Atypical employment contracts are either considered as traps that hinder permanent employment in the primary segment of the labour market or as stepping-stones leading to stable employment. Whereas the former interpretation appears to apply to Germany, our analysis of on-call contracts in the...
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Labor Market Models of Worker and Firm Heterogeneity
Lentz, Rasmus; Mortensen, Dale T. - In: Annual Review of Economics 2 (2010) 1, pp. 577-602
employer heterogeneity offers possible gains from sorting. However, because the problem of identifying the presence of sorting … firm size, productivity, and average wage paid and a positive correlation between each pair. To the extent that intrinsic … differences in firm productivity explain these facts, there are several important consequences. First, the reallocation of …
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UNEMPLOYMENT, STATUS IN EMPLOYMENT AND WAGES IN MOROCCO
BOUDARBAT, Brahim - In: Applied Econometrics and International Development 6 (2006) 1
High unemployment rates among educated workers in Morocco and many other developing countries is a serious issue. The worsening unemployment problem among educated workers in Morocco started with the cuts to public sector hiring under structural adjustment policies implemented in 1983. Thus,...
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Employment and distribution effects of the minimum wage
Slonimczyk, Fabián; Skott, Peter - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 84 (2012) 1, pp. 245-264
This paper analyzes the effects of the minimum wage on wage inequality, relative employment and over-education. We show that over-education can be generated endogenously and that an increase in the minimum wage can raise both total and low-skill employment, and produce a fall in inequality....
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The pay gap of temporary agency workers — Does the temp sector experience pay off?
Jahn, Elke J.; Pozzoli, Dario - In: Labour Economics 24 (2013) C, pp. 48-57
It is a well-known fact that temporary agency workers accept high wage penalties compared to permanent workers. However, remarkably little is known about the wages of workers who regularly take jobs in the temp sector or who do temp work for a substantial period of time. Based on a rich...
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Setting the minimum wage
Boeri, Tito - In: Labour Economics 19 (2012) 3, pp. 281-290
The process leading to the setting of the minimum wage so far has been overlooked by economists. There are two common ways of setting national minimum wages: they are either government legislated or the byproduct of collective bargaining agreements, which are extended erga omnes to all workers....
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Specification and Estimation of Equilibrium Search Models
Bunzel, H.; Christensen, B. J.; Jensen, P.; Kiefer, N. M.; … - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 4 (2001) 1, pp. 90-126
This paper considers estimation of a pure equilibrium search model in which all heterogeneity is endogenous and due to … information asymmetries, and of variations that allow better fits to the data. Measurement error and heterogeneity in the … productivity levels of firms. The model is fit to a random sample of individuals representing 1% of the Danish population in the …
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Is There Rent Sharing in Italy? Evidence from Employer-Employee Data
Matano, Alessia; Naticchioni, Paolo - In: European Journal of Comparative Economics 8 (2011) 2, pp. 265-279
rent sharing at firm level. Second, by means of fixed effects estimates we show that the sorting of high-ability workers …
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Rethinking the skills gap
van Rens, Thijs; Rathelot, Roland - In: IZA World of Labor (2017)
Evidence suggests that productivity would be much higher and unemployment much lower if the supply of and demand for …
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A Wage Policy for External Balance and Employment in EMU Environment: A Theoretical Approach
Theodoropoulos, Sotirios - In: SPOUDAI Journal of Economics and Business 61 (2011) 3-4, pp. 85-102
rely mainly on productivity developments in competition exposed tradable sectors of the economy. By this policy instrument …
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