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fixed-term contracts. The paper discusses problems arising in empirical estimation, and how to address them. It concludes …
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Due to scarcity considerations an increase in the supply of college graduates should reduce the premium for this kind of qualification. Therefore it seems quite contradictory that a tremendous educational expansion in the USA is accompanied by rising wage dispersion (overall and between...
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Integrating Roy with Becker, this paper studies occupational choice and matching in the labor market. Our model generates occupation earnings distributions which are right skewed, have firm fixed effects, and large changes in aggregate earnings inequality without significant changes in within...
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This paper analyzes the coexistence of on-the-job (general) training and on-the-job search in a frictional labor market where firms post skill-dependent labor contracts to preemptively back-load compensation after training. The back-loaded compensation scheme discourages trained workers'...
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short-run wages, but fared significantly better in the longer run. Second, we compare labor market outcomes of subsidized … wages of workers would not have differed significantly, if they had been hired in another industry instead. However, we find … significant differences in short-term wages, employment and tenure outcomes across industries. Finally, from a fiscal point of …
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economic conditions at the time of hiring on future wages. Measured by the labor's user cost, the price of labor is …
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In this paper, we provide a comprehensive overview of labour market dynamics in Western Ger- many by looking at gross worker flows. To do so, we use a subsample of the registry data collected by the German social security system, the IAB employment sample, for the time period 1975-2001. The...
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log labor earnings. These restrictions permit estimation of the unobservable ability and productivity differences between … estimation is performed on matched employer-employee data from the LEHD program of the U.S. Census Bureau. The estimated …
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the mechanisms underlying the relationship between automation and labor market polarization. To do so, we build an agent-based model (ABM) in which workers, heterogeneous in nature and level of skills, interact endogenously on a decentralized labor...
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of couples' commuting, wages, labor supply, and consumption. Using data from the PSID for the years 2011-2019, results … indicate a positive and highly significant correlation between wages and commuting when analyzed cross-sectionally. However …, changes in wages and commuting over an individual's life cycle are not related. Additionally, commuting appears to be …
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