significant: While one additional day of youth employment increases adult wages on average by 0.034% for cohorts graduating in the …This paper examines recent trends in employment patterns on the labor market for youth and changing returns to early … employment stability over the past four decades. True state dependence is identified by exploiting exogenous variation in …

labor market reforms for 28 OECD countries. Welfare effects of trade agreements are magnified when accounting for employment …Quantifying the welfare effects of trade liberalization is a core issue in international trade. Existing frameworks … assume perfect labor markets and therefore ignore the effects of aggregate employment changes for welfare. We develop a …

wages and a binding minimum wage for low-skilled workers. Since the minimum wage lowers the skill premium, it reduces the … firms. Whereas trade does not affect the firm-internal assignment of workers to tasks, it reduces the range of tasks … produced by high-skilled workers within firms and thereby lowers firm-level productivity, if low-skilled wages are fixed by a …

career the question arises whether labor market entry via temporary work agency (TWA) employment has any (persistent) effects … apprenticeship system which is merged with the employment biographies of more than 8,000 apprenticeship graduates for the 1999 …-term wage effects of TWA employment. Our results point to a rather pronounced wage gap and persistent adverse wage effects. But …

whereby employment in high-skill and low-skill occupations increased at the expense of employment in middle-skill occupations …. This paper examines the wage effects of job polarization: first, have the relative wages of workers in middle …

an increasing share of available income, while low-skilled workers have seen an absolute decline in real wages. How and … emerged to explain this phenomenon, one focusing on international trade and labor market globalization as the driving force … escalation of high-skill wages. This collection brings together innovative new ideas and data sources in order to provide more …

This paper investigates the behaviour of employers' monopsony power and workers' wages over the business cycle. Using … workers' entry wages are of similar magnitude as those predicted under monopsonistic wage setting, suggesting that monopsony …