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cycle. While wages of the median establishment are moderately procyclical, 36 percent of establishments have countercyclical … wages. We estimate a negative connection between establishments' wage cyclicality and their employment cyclicality, thereby …
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cycle. While wages of the median establishment are moderately procyclical, 36 percent of establishments have countercyclical … wages. We estimate a negative connection between establishments' wage cyclicality and their employment cyclicality, thereby …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012619265
Although the quantitative relationship between employment cyclicality and wage cyclicality is central for the dynamics of macroeconomic models, there is little empirical evidence on this topic. We use the German AWFP dataset to document that wage cyclicalities are very heterogeneous across...
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-sectional heterogeneity of establishments' average real wages over the business cycle. While the median establishments' real wages are … procyclical, there is a large fraction of establishments with countercyclical real wages. We are the first to show that … establishments with more procyclical wages have a less procyclical hires rate and employment behavior. We propose a labor market flow …
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This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...
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We analyze differences in unemployment between natives and immigrants over the business cycle. Using matched employer …-employee data for Austria, we find that immigrants' unemployment rate and flows into and out of unemployment are significantly more …
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Kingdom, Spain and the United States, focussing on the role of the public sector. Using the French, Spanish and UK Labour … probabilities between private and public employment, unemployment and inactivity. We examine the stocks and flows by gender, age and … unemployment rate. Public-sector employment contributes 20 percent to fluctuations in the unemployment rate in the UK, 15 percent …
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enter the country also expanded in the last decade. While immigration policy legislation towards Jewish migrants was formed … soon after its independence, Israel still lacks a coherent immigration policy towards labor migrants and asylum seekers. …Israel perceives the immigration of Jews as one of its major goals and thus it applies no selection rules towards them …
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research on immigration, political behaviour and collective action. …
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-experiment is a legal requirement for employers to demand native labor with infinite elasticity at the wage earned by migrants; the … positive outside it. Job-specific estimates of this kind are useful alongside more generalized evaluations of immigration … because immigration policy often regulates access to specific occupations. …
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