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In order to highlight the uneven impact of recession on the labor market in Catalonia (Spain), especially regarding wage structure, this study examines the evolution of its main variables in the period 2005-2012 from a gender perspective. For ten years prior to recession, female employment...
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In Catalonia, between 2008 and 2014, the rate of youth unemployment has exponentially increased and it has turned into a structural problem: when the fourth quarter of 2014 ended, among the people under the age of 30, the number of unemployed people was 1,495,600, 645,000 more than in the first...
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We investigate the cyclicity of the income distribution and quantify the relation with the business cycle. We apply standard turning point analysis and filtering techniques to a large microdataset of US individual incomes that combines survey data, tax records and national accounts. We document...
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if the wage differential by firm size in Brazil can be explained by the predictions of the Efficiency Wage Theory. It is …
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Borjas (1987, 1991 and 1994) developed the self-selection theory, applying Roy's model (1951) to migration studies. He … the individual investment decision theory (Human Capital theory), applying simulated data by Monte-Carlo method. The … theory of individual investment decisions allows us to analyze self-selection patterns across differences in wages and …
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This paper incorporates the behavioral labor economic perspective into the traditional Harris-Todaro rural-urban migration model. We study cases in which one's utility is not only determined by his own wage, but also by wages of others. In our theoretical models, rural-urban migration is driven...
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This paper provides evidence that labor reallocation from the manufacturing into the non-manufacturing sector causes an increase in sorting of high-skilled (low-skilled) workers into high-paying (low-paying) firms and thereby triggers a rise in wage inequality. I use data on 50% of all West...
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. Our theory suggests that increasing productivity in automation leads to a relocation of previously offshored production …
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workers and therefore to higher wages, or so the often cited rent-sharing theory of multinational firms explains. But studies …
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