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Wage and Mobility Effects of Trade and Migration
Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Center for Human Resources, SELAPO, …
The paper investigates the relative importance of trade and immigration for earnings and job mobility of German male … experience. The general finding is that trade matters more than migration, which is contrary to the public attention both … determinants receive, at least in Germany. While wages are affected negatively by a relative increase in imports, immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005794585
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What motivates farm couples to seek off-farm labour? : a logit analysis of job transitions
Biørn, Erik; Bjørnsen, Hild-Marte - 2013
In this paper some labour market consequences of transitions in the agriculture sector are examined by combining a 20-year unbalanced panel data set from Norwegian farm couples (households) and logit modeling of one-period transition probabilities. The multi-dimensionality of the problem follows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009725533
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The effect of migration experience on occupational mobility in Estonia
Masso, Jaan; Eamets, Raul; Mõtsmees, Pille - 2013
The existing literature on return migration has resulted in several studies analysing the impact of foreign work experience on the returnees' earnings or their decision to become self-employed; however, in this paper we analyse the less studied effect on occupational mobility - how the job in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009766364
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The Impacts of Trade Liberalization on Employment and Wages in Tunisian Industries
Haouas, Ilham; Yagoubi, Mahmoud; Heshmati, Almas - 2003
This paper investigates short and long-run effects of trade liberalization on employment and wages. Employment and wage … causality is unidirectional. Wages strongly causes employment but employment does not cause wages. There is significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262111
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The Impacts of Trade Liberalization on Employment and Wages in Tunisian Industries
Haouas, Ilham; Yagoubi, Mahmoud; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
This paper investigates short and long-run effects of trade liberalization on employment and wages. Employment and wage … causality is unidirectional. Wages strongly causes employment but employment does not cause wages. There is significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762106
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Job-to-job transitions, sorting, and wage growth
Jinkins, David; Morin, Annaïg - 2017
We measure the contribution of match quality to the wage growth experienced by job movers. We reject the exogenous mobility assumption needed to estimate a standard fixed-effects wage regression in the Danish matched employer-employee data. We exploit the sub-sample of workers hired from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011625332
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Migration and labor market integration in Europe
Dorn, David; Zweimüller, Josef - 2021
The European labor market allows for the border-free mobility of workers across 31 countries that cover most of the continent's population. However, rates of migration across European countries remain considerably lower than interstate migration in the United States, and spatial variation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012588919
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What motivates farm couples to seek off-farm labour? A logit analysis of job transitions
Biørn, Erik; Bjørnsen, Hild-Marte - 2013
In this paper some labour market consequences of transitions in the agriculture sector are examined by combining a 20-year unbalanced panel data set from Norwegian farm couples (households) and logit modeling of one-period transition probabilities. The multi-dimensionality of the problem follows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330267
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Moving Down : Women's Part - Time Work and Occupational Change in Britain 1991-2001
Connolly, Sara; Gregory, Mary - 2021
The UK's Equal Opportunities Commission has recently drawn attention to the 'hidden brain drain' when women working part-time are employed in occupations below those for which they are qualified. These inferences were based on self - reporting. We give an objective and quantitative analysis of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316772
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Part-time Employment Can Be a Life-Time Setback for Earnings : A Study of British Women 1975-2001
Connolly, Sara; Gregory, Mary - 2021
Two particular features of the position of women in the British labour market are the extensive role of part-time work and the large part-time pay penalty. Part-time work features most prominently when women are in their 30s, the peak childcare years and, particularly for more educated women, a...
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