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This article studies the responses of real wages and labour market flows of immigrants in Spain for the period between … for immigrants than for natives: a one percentage point increase in the unemployment rate is associated with a 0.61 and 0 ….85% drop in real wages for natives and immigrants, respectively. However, these differences only occur among low-tenure workers …
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This paper investigates the change in wages associated with a spell of unemployment. The novelty lies in using monthly … different business cycles. The level of education or the sector of re-employment affects the change in wages following an … unemployment spell differently across different downturns. The degree of wage rigidity varies across recessions; wage changes pre …
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This paper investigates the change in wages associated with a spell of unemployment. The novelty lies in using monthly … different business cycles. The level of education or the sector of re-employment affects the change in wages following an … unemployment spell differently across different downturns. The degree of wage rigidity varies across recessions; wage changes …
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The aggregate average wage is often used as an indicator of economic performance and welfare, and as such often serves as a benchmark for changes in the generosity of public transfers and for wage negotiations. Yet if economies experience a high degree of (nonrandom) fluctuation in employment...
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We develop a possibility to work index (PWI) taking the ability to work from home and workplace closures into account. By using the data from the HLFS in Turkey, we examine the individual level determinants of PWI. Our findings reveal that PWI and ability to work from home are significantly...
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Greece’s labour market entered the COVID-19 shock following several years of sustained employment growth and with wages … picking up. Unemployment remained high and employment rates were low, especially among women, the young and older workers. The …
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higher wages. This increases firms' incentives to post more vacancies, which makes unemployment volatile and sensitive to … aggregate shocks. The model is robust to two major criticisms of existing theories of sluggish wages and volatile unemployment …I propose a new mechanism for sluggish wages based on workers' noisy information about the state of the economy. Wages …
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The paper uses a large survey (GSOEP) to analyze the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It finds that new immigrant workers earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for immigrants from advanced countries,...
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Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment … rather than wages, at odds with the quantitative predictions of the canonical search model – even if wages are only … reservation wages, and consider an alternative reservation wage model based on reference dependence in job search. This extension …
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The paper estimates how wages respond to changes in regional unemployment using detailed Swedish micro data. The study … estimated elasticity of wages. Wage adjustments are larger for employees with high unemployment risk and for new hires entering … is set in an economy with close to complete union coverage where real wages have grown continuously in all parts of the …
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