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Wages, training and job turnover in a search-matching model
Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael - 2000
subsequently estimate the model on Danish labour market data using a structural non-parametric estimation procedure. We find that …
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Matching efficiency and heterogeneous workers in the UK
Lisauskaitė, Elena - 2022
vacancies and unemployed workers. This paper studies the changes in the labour market's efficiency over the period between 2001 … and 2015 in the UK, and decomposes various factors behind it, such as industrial labour market segmentation and … Figura (2015), Hall and Schulhofer-Wohl (2018)), I find that the UK labour market experienced a decrease in the matching …
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Measuring the spatial misallocation of labor : the returns to India-Gulf guest work in a natural experiment
Clemens, Michael A. - 2019
"Guest workers" earn higher wages overseas on temporary low-skill employment visas. This wage effect can quantify global inefficiencies in the pure spatial allocation of labor between poorer and richer countries. But rigorous estimates are rare, complicated by migrant self-selection. This paper...
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The family gap in career progression
Kunze, Astrid - 2014
This study investigates whether and when during the life cycle women fall behind in terms of career progression because of children. We use 1987-1997 Norwegian panel data that contain information on individuals' position in their career hierarchy as well as a direct measure of their promotions....
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Skilled immigrants' contribution to productive efficiency
Nahm, Daehoon; Tani, Massimiliano - 2014
This paper studies whether skilled migrants contribute to the host country's "productive efficiency" (Farrell, 1957) using input-output and immigration sectoral data for seven industries in twelve countries during the period 1999-2001. We find that skilled migrants contribute positively to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010381869
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Transitions from offline to online labor markets : the relationship between freelancers' prior offline and online work experience
Seifried, Mareike - 2021
An emerging stream of research from various disciplines studies online labor market (OLM) platforms as an alternative way of accomplishing work compared to traditional (offline) labor markets. Although prior work has increased our understanding of how OLM platforms function, we so far know very...
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Between the dockyard and the deep blue sea: retention and personnel economics in the Royal Navy
Glaser, Darrell J.; Rahman, Ahmed S. - 2021
This paper tackles some issues in personnel economics using the career profiles of British naval officers during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We ask how promotions, payouts, positions, and peers affect worker retention. Random variation in task assignments and job promotions allows us...
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Rejuvenating Greece's labour market to generate more and higher-quality jobs
Bulman, Tim - 2020
Greece’s labour market entered the COVID-19 shock following several years of sustained employment growth and with wages … shock led to a sharp fall in labour force activity and has stalled new hiring. The improved social protection and temporary … equipping workers with the skills needed by the labour market can support employment and incomes. This will require a …
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Job ladder, human capital, and the cost of job loss
Audoly, Richard; De Pace, Federica; Fella, Giulio - 2022
High-tenure workers losing their job experience a large and prolonged fall in wages and earnings. The aim of this paper is to understand and quantify the forces behind this empirical regularity. We propose a structural model of the labor market with (i) on-the-job search, (ii) general human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013490631
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Psychological foundations of incentives
Fehr, Ernst; Falk, Armin - 2002
During the last two decades economists have made much progress in understanding incentives, contracts and organisations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411627