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heterogeneity among performance pay and fixed wage jobs. First, there is substantial dispersion in the incidence of performance pay … that in fixed wage jobs; the share of performance pay is increasing in employer size. Second, we find that performance pay … jobs respond primarily by adjusting the intensive margin of hourly compensation over the business cycle, whereas fixed wage …
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New development solves housing problems for some workers by creating new jobs that pay sustaining wages. At the same time, it creates additional demand for affordable housing because some of the workers who will be employed will not earn enough money to afford market-rate rental housing. In...
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Analyzing the self-selection of workers into formal and informal sector employment in Tajikistan, a poor transition … economy, with higher informal sector than formal sector wages and an informal sector employment share exceeding 50 percent, we … relative wages in the formal sector could thus be effective in reducing the high informal sector employment share in this …
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We use data from the military enlistment for a large representative sample of Swedish men to assess the importance of cognitive and noncognitive ability for labor market outcomes. The measure of noncognitive ability is based on a personal interview conducted by a psychologist. Unlike...
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this age wage gap. First, the widening of the age wage gap stemmed from the increasing difficulty of younger workers to …. Third, different appropriation of firm-specific rents can explain more than half of the widening in the age wage gap. The … their organization, highlighting the role of career spillovers in widening the age wage gap …
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absence of other public signals, wage disclosure can result in an equilibrium of symmetric learning. Imposing a ban reverts to … job market. Wage disclosure allows high-performing women to escape discriminatory firms, although some degree of anchoring … and wage gap persists. In contrast, bans may reduce the gender wage gap, but do so at the expense of high-performing women …
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high for immigrants than for natives. By using longitudinal social security data, I find that wage cyclicality is higher …
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This paper analyses the differential in annual wage growth between temporary and permanent workers in Italy, separately … for stayers (wage growth within the same workplace) and movers (between jobs via job mobility). To this purpose, we use … contract type on wage dynamics, our estimates are based on a fixed effects specification. The results for the movers indicate …
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shifts towards a higher share of low wage firms. After keeping firm characteristics constant, the findings indicate that the … high and low wage firms differ in how they adjust training provision in response to a dual cohort …
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The demographic and education composition of European countries is changing: the population share of young individuals is declining while that of the highly educated is rising. This paper estimates the impact of cohort size on wages using data on 21 European countries covering 2007-2010 to cast...
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