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Welfare Reform, Work and Wages: A Summary of the US Experience
Grogger, Jeffrey; Karoly, Lynn A. - In: CESifo DICE Report 03 (2005) 2, pp. 8-12
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Pathways into Self-Employment in the United States and Germany
McManus, Patricia A. - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 24-30
Using longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the German Socio-Economic Panel, this research compares pathways into self-employment among men and women in the United States and Western Germany. Academic and vocational credentials are more important for stabilizing...
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Does Smoking Really Harm Your Earnings so Much? Biases in Current Estimates of the Smoking Wage Penalty
Anger, Silke; Kvasnicka, Michael - In: Applied Economics Letters 17 (2010) 6, pp. 561-564
Empirical studies on the earnings effects of tobacco use have found significant wage penalties attached to smoking. This article produces evidence that suggests that these estimates are significantly upward biased. The bias arises from a general failure in the literature to control for past...
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Public sector contracting: An Australian study of changing work conditions
Ryan, Neal; Furneaux, Craig; Pink, Anthony; Brown, Kerry - In: Management Revue 16 (2005) 4, pp. 438-457
. The study focuses on evaluating the impact of the contracting-out of these services on the wages and conditions of … savings for government, these resulted partly from a reduction in wages and benefits of former blue collar staff, despite the … best efforts of the Western Australian government to protect staff wages and benefits. The research makes an important …
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Who is Reaping the Gains from Globalisation? – The Role of Labour Market Flexibility
Seidel, Tobias - In: CESifo DICE Report 03 (2005) 1, pp. 54-59
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011696540
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Returns to Self-Employment Experience in the Wage and Salary Sector: A Comparative Analysis of Germany and the United States
Trzcinski, Eileen - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 68 (1999) 2, pp. 177-183
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How Important Is the Family? Evidence from Sibling Correlations in Permanent Earnings in the USA, Germany, and Denmark
Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - In: Journal of Population Economics 27 (2014) 1, pp. 69-89
in Germany and to provide a cross-country comparison of Germany, Denmark, and USA. The main findings are that family and … found in USA. This holds true for both male and female siblings. A deeper analysis of Germany shows that family background … also plays an important role in explaining variations in family income, wages, education, and risk attitudes. …
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Immigrants and gender roles: Assimilation vs. culture
Blau, Francine - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-21
This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women's behavior in the United States-looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply...
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The effects of living wage laws on low-wage workers and low-income families: What do we know now?
Neumark, David; Thompson, Matthew; Koyle, Leslie - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-34
reduce employment among the least-skilled workers they are intended to help. But they also increase wages for many of them …
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Inflation Targeting Is a Success, So Far: 100 Years of Evidence from Swedish Wage Contracts
Jonung, Lars; Fregert, Klas - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2 (2008) 2008-31, pp. 1-25
We evaluate the Swedish inflation targeting regime adopted in 1993−1995 using a novel approach based on a unique data set on the characteristics of collective wage agreements between 1908 and 2008. We find that the inflation targeting regime of 1995−2008 stands out as an exceptionally stable...
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