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Lost in transition? : minimum wage effects on German construction workers

Bachmann, Ronald; König, Marion; Schaffner, Sandra - 2012

Using a linked employer-employee data set on the German construction industry, we analyse the effects of the introduction of minimum wages in this sector on labour market dynamics. In doing so, we focus on accessions and separations, as well as the underlying labour market flows, at the...

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Expansão econômica e aumento da formalização das relações de trabalho : uma abordagem através das contratações

Corseuil, Carlos Henrique; Foguel, Miguel Nathan - 2011

We investigate both theoretically and empirically the relationship between economic expansion and the degree of formalization of the Brazilian labor market in the recent period. Based on search models, we present a theoretical framework that attempts to explain the recent increase in the share...

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Do frictions matter in the labor market? : accessions, separations and minimum wage effects

Dube, Arindrajit; Lester, T. William; Reich, Michael - 2011

We measure labor market frictions using a strategy that bridges design-based and structural approaches: estimating an equilibrium search model using reduced-form minimum wage elasticities identified from border discontinuities and fitted with Bayesian and LIML methods. We begin by providing the...

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The urban wage premium in imperfect labour markets

Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Oberfichtner, Michael - 2016

Using administrative data for West Germany, this paper investigates whether part of the urban wage premium stems from fierce competition in thick labour markets. We first establish that employers possess less wage-setting power in denser markets. Local differences in wage-setting power predict...

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Catching hipo's : screening, wages and unemployment

Janssen, Maarten C. W. - 2000

In this paper, I study the wage a firm sets to attract high abilityworkers (hipo's) in situationsof unemployment. I show that the higher unemployment, the larger afirm's incentives to sorthigh and low ability workers. Moreover, workers will signal their(high) ability in situationsof (high)...

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Information frictions and labor market outcomes

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Loviglio, Annalisa; Piemontese, Lavinia - 2015

We analyze the impact of information frictions on workers' wages, contributing to the literature that tested search theory, which has so far focused on labor market frictions in general and not specifically on information asymmetries. Using data for 16 countries from the European Social Survey...

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Firm market power and the earnings distribution

Webber, Douglas A. - 2013

Using linked employer-employee data, I compute firm-level measures of the labor supply elasticity facing each private non-farm firm in the US. I provide the first direct evidence of the positive relationship between a firm's labor supply elasticity and the earnings of its workers. I also...

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Anmerkungen zum Monopson am Arbeitsmarkt : der Zeithorizont macht den Unterschied

Sell, Friedrich L.; Reinisch, David C. - 2012

Ob die Marktform des Monopsons am Arbeitsmarkt vorliegt, ist fur die Frage des Für oder Wider des Mindestlohns von … Strukturen am Arbeitsmarkt nachgewiesen werden, die Einführung eines Mindestlohns nicht nur zu einer exogenen Lohnerhöhung für … gilt fur den Unternehmer mit Marktmacht am Arbeitsmarkt genau dasselbe, was auch fur alle anderen Unternehmer ohne …

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The cyclical behaviour of employers' monopsony power and workers' wages

Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Schnabel, Claus - 2013

This paper investigates the behaviour of employers' monopsony power and workers' wages over the business cycle. Using German administrative linked employer employee data for the years 1985-2010 and an estimation framework based on duration models, we construct a time series of the firm-level...

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Working conditions of immigrant women in household labour market : Murcia City

Riquelme Perea, Prudencio José; Ruiz Casanova, Encarnación - In: Atlantic review of economics : AROE 1 (2014)

The massive of immigrant women in recent decades, has resulted in social and labour insertion of these effectively enforced through the domestic sector, but in which conditions? The Purpose of this study is to show the functioning of the domestic work market within Murcia City, through...

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