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The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on the Relative Return to Skill
Simmons, Robert; Lucifora, Claudio - 2001
series. Since football is a highly labor intensive activity, both scale economies and scarcity of the most talented players …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014132201
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Worker Training in a Restructuring Economy : Evidence from the Russian Transition
Berger, Mark; Earle, John S.; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2021
occupational mobility, their labor force transitions, and their wage growth in Russia compared to the U.S. We hypothesize that the … training in workers' current fields is estimated to reduce mobility and earnings, suggesting inertial programs from the pre-transition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321276
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Workplace heterogeneity and the rise of West German wage inequality
Card, David; Heining, Jörg; Kline, Patrick - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012
West German wages results from a combination of rising heterogeneity between workers, rising variability in the wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734060
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Price and quantity adjustments in the Austrian labour market
Hofer, Helmut; Pichelmann, Karl; Schuh, Andreas-Ulrich - 1998
Austria is among the very few countries in the European Union which have managed to maintain comparatively low unemployment rates and high employment rates. In international comparison Austrian unemployment is very stable over the business cycle. This is mainly due to the high sensitivity of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291921
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Workplace heterogeneity and the rise of West Germany wage inequality
Card, David; Heining, Jörg; Kline, Patrick - 2012
wages results from a combination of rising heterogeneity between workers, rising variability in the wage premiums at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323788
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The desire for impact
Dur, Robert A. J.; Glazer, Amihai - 2006
can make a firm in a competitive labor market face an upward-sloping supply curve of labor, lead workers with the same … characteristics but at different firms to earn different wages, may alleviate the hold-up problem in firm-specific investment, can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337969
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Temporary help work : compensating differentials and multiple job-holding
Hamersma, Sarah; Heinrich, Carolyn J.; Mueser, Peter R. - 2012
importance in balancing cyclical fluctuations in labor demand. Does THS employment provide some benefits to disadvantaged workers … earnings ; wages ; multiple jobs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009575169
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Workplace heterogeneity and the rise of West Germany wage inequality
Card, David E.; Heining, Jörg; Kline, Patrick - 2012
wages results from a combination of rising heterogeneity between workers, rising variability in the wage premiums at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009664107
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Price and quantity adjustments in the Austrian labour market
Hofer, Helmut; Pichelmann, Karl; Schuh, Ulrich - 1998
Austria is among the very few countries in the European Union which have managed to maintain comparatively low unemployment rates and high employment rates. In international comparison Austrian unemployment is very stable over the business cycle. This is mainly due to the high sensitivity of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009711657
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Public-private sector wage differentials by type of contract : evidence from Spain
Ramos, Raúl; Sanromá, Esteban; Simón, Hipólito - 2014
The article examines public-private sector wage differentials in Spain using microdata from the Structure of Earnings Survey (Encuesta de Estructura Salarial). When applying various decomposition techniques, we find that it is important to distinguish by gender and type of contract. Our results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350839