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Human Capital Risk and the Firmsize Wage Premium

Leung, Danny; Ueberfeldt, Alexander - Bank of Canada - 2008

Why do employed persons in large firms earn more than employed persons in small firms, even after controlling for observable characteristics? Complementary to previous results, this paper proposes a mechanism that gives an answer to this question. In the model, individuals accumulate human...

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Does It Pay to Invest in Education in Croatia?

Vujčić, Boris; Šošić, Vedran - Ekonomski Fakultet, Sveučilište u Zagrebu - 2007

Countries of Central and Eastern Europe experienced a rapid increase of return to education with the advent of the transition. This is well-documented for most of the countries but, until now, there were no empirical studies of the dynamics of wage premiums in post-transition Croatia. This...

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Unemployment, Labour Marginalisation, and Deprivation (in English)

Mareš, Petr; Sirovátka, Tomáš - In: Czech Journal of Economics and Finance (Finance a uver) 55 (2005) 1-2, pp. 54-67

The increase in long-term unemployment and the prolongation of periods of unemployment signals the establishment of a marginalized labor force in the Czech Republic. This paper considers the emerging marginalized groups in the Czech labor market, and their social, mental, and material...

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Regional Wage Adjustments and Unemployment: Estimating the Time-Varying Wage Curve (in English)

Galušèák, Kamil; Münich, Daniel - In: Czech Journal of Economics and Finance (Finance a uver) 55 (2005) 1-2, pp. 68-82

This paper investigates the flexibility of real wages at the regional level by estimating the wage curve, the … relationship between regional unemployment, and the regional level of wages. For this purpose the authors use a sample of annual … Czech Republic suggested that the regional flexibility of real wages is extraordinarily low. Taking into account the …

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The European Unemployment Dilemma.

Ljungqvist, L; Sargent, T-J - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997

Post World War II European welfare states experienced several decades of relatively low unemployment, followed by a plague of persistently high unemployment since the 1980's. We impute the higher unemployment to welfare states' diminished ability to cope with more turbulent economic times, such...

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The Multi-Dimensional Nature of Labor Demand and Skill-Biased Technological Change.

Mellander, E. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1999

Investigating the robustness of the skill-biased technical change hypothesis, this analysis incorporates two novel features. First, effective labor is modeled as the product of a quantity measure - number of employees with a given level of education - and a quality index, depending on, i.a.,...

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Worker Displacement in France.

Margolis, D.N. - 2000

In this paper, we consider the impact of displacement (defined as separation from a stable job due to firm closure) in on workers in France. We find that a large share of displaced workers find new jobs without experiencing any interruption in their employment histories, and that falling into...

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L'effet du salaire minimum sur le chomage des jeunes et des femmes au Quebec: une reestimation et un reexamen de la question.

Cousineau, J.M. - Montreal - Relations industrielles - 1990

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The Political Economy of the "National Minimum Wage Institution".

Petrakis, E.; Vlassis, M. - Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) - 1999

Whilst their products are substituable for the consumer, there exist technological asymmetries across the unionized sectors of an economy. There are high-tech as well as low-tech sectors. We show, that, due to those asymmetries in productivity, inter-sectoral minimum wage agreements may...

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Changes in Returns to Education in India, 1983-94: By Gender, Age-Cohort and Location.

Duraisamy, P. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2000

schooling. The returns to women's education for the primary and middle levels have declined while those for secondary and …

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