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Innovation, labour demand and wages in Poland: Some introductory results using micro-macro data

Walewski, Mateusz - 2009

innovations and skill-biased wage changes. The results indicate that innovations positively influence the wages of skilled workers … while they negatively influence the wages of the unskilled. …

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Immigrants and Gender Roles: Assimilation vs. Culture

Blau, Francine D. - 2015

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...

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Employment, Inflation and Income Distribution in an Open Economy. Pricing-to-market in a Modified NAIRU Model

Ederer, Stefan - 2010

The paper modifies a standard NAIRU model by implementing "pricing-to-market" as the basic assumption for the price setting behaviour of firms in an open economy. This entirely changes the outcomes of the model: First, inflation in equilibrium is stable at any rate of unemployment; the long-run...

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Cycles versus trends: The effects of economic growth on earnings in Bolivia

Muriel Hernández, Beatriz; Vera Cossio, Horacio - 2015

This paper analyzes the effects of economic growth on labor earnings in Bolivia during 1999-2012. More precisely, we develop a labor market model to capture both cycle and trend effects of prices, and production on earnings, which is estimated econometrically using pseudo-panel data methods. The...

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Care more, earn less? The association between care leave for sick children and wage among Swedish parents

Boye, Katarina - 2015

A number of studies have shown that women's and men's wages relate to parenthood in general and to parental leave in … influence paid work. This study uses Swedish register data to analyse the association between care leave and wages among mothers …

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Urban costs, wages, and selection

Dalvai, Wilfried - 2016

have substantial effects on wages and income inequality. Urban costs play an important role for locational and economic … with endogenous markups on wages and selection. With increasing commuting technology only more productive and less firms … survive. Firms have higher costs because they have to pay higher wages to compensate workers for the higher urban costs …

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The rise of domestic outsourcing and the evolution of the German wage structure

Goldschmidt, Deborah; Schmieder, Johannes F. - 2015

dramatic growth of domestic outsourcing in Germany since the early 1990s. Event-study analyses show that wages in outsourced …

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Are immigrants overeducated in Germany? Determinants and wage effects of educational mismatch

Schwientek, Caroline - 2016

This paper investigates determinants and wage effects of educational mismatch for both natives and immigrants in Germany. Using the GSOEP panel data from 1991 to 2013, I find that conditional on educational attainment immigrants face a higher incidence of overeducation compared to their native...

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Deconstructing Theories of Overeducation in Europe: A Wage Decomposition Approach

McGuinness, Seamus; Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2016

This paper uses data from the Cedefop European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey, a new international dataset of adult workers in 28 EU countries, to decompose the wage penalty of overeducated workers. The ESJ survey allows for integration of a rich, previously unavailable, set of factors in the...

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The New Economic Case for Migration Restrictions: An Assessment

Clemens, Michael A.; Pritchett, Lant - 2016

For decades, migration economics has stressed the effects of migration restrictions on income distribution in the host country. Recently the literature has taken a new direction by estimating the costs of migration restrictions to global economic efficiency. In contrast, a new strand of research...

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