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In the Right Place at the Wrong Time : The Role of Firms and Luck in Young Workers? Careers

von Wachter, Till; Bender, Stefan - 2004

We exploit administrative data on young German workers and their employers to study the long-term effects of an early job loss. To account for non-random sorting of workers into firms with different turnover rates and for selective job mobility, we use changes over time in firm- and age-specific...

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Delays in Renewal of Labor Contracts: Theory and Evidence

Danziger, Leif; Neuman, Shoshana - 2003

In many countries, an expired labor contract is automatically extended during the often protracted delay before the new contract is signed. Our theoretical model focuses on macroeconomic factors in explaining the delay. It emphasizes the importance of the realized nominal and real shocks, and of...

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Do Pensions Impede Phased Retirement?

Even, William E.; Macpherson, David A. - 2004

Many workers reveal a preference for a gradual reduction in work hours as they approach retirement (?phased retirement?), rather than a sudden change from full-time work to full-time retirement. Pension regulations may impede phased retirement without a switch of employers by prohibiting access...

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Is There a Risk-Return Trade-Off across Occupations? : Evidence from Spain

Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Hartog, Joop - 2004

We use data from Spain to test for an effect of earnings risk and skewness on individual wages. We carry out separate … estimation for men, women, public and private sector employees. In accordance with previous evidence for the US we show the …

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Fly Me to the Moon : The Determinants of Secondary Jobholding in Germany and the UK

Heineck, Guido; Schwarze, Johannes - 2004

This paper analyzes the determinants of secondary jobholding in Germany and the UK. Although differing in labor market regulations, moonlighting is a persistent phenomenon in both countries. Using panel data from the BHPS and the SOEP, reduced form participation equations are estimated for male...

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Madsen, Jakob B.; Goerke, Laszlo - 2003

We show that a stronger earnings relationship of unemployment compensation reduces wages and increases employment in an … economy in which wages are determined by a trade union that maximises the rent from unionisation. The opposite result applies …% increase in the earnings relationship is associated with a 1.9% fall in manufacturing wages, a 0.6% reduction in non …

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Flexible Workplace Practices and Labor Productivity

Bauer, Thomas K. - 2003

Systems (HPWSs) on labor productivity (defined as sales per worker) and labor efficiency (defined as the inverse of unit labor … costs). The estimation results indicate that simple cross-sectional estimates of the effects of implementing HPWSs on labor … productivity are biased downward due to unobserved time-invariant establishment effects and the endogeneity of the used measure for …

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Out-of-Pocket Prescription Drug Expenditures and Public Prescription Drug Programs

Alan, Sule; Crossley, Thomas F.; Grootendorst, Paul; … - 2003

Canadian household prescription drug expenditures are studied using different years of the Statistics Canada Family Expenditure Survey. Master files are used, expanding the number of available years and permitting provincial rather than regional identifiers. Nonparametric Engel curves are...

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The Rise and Fall of Swiss Unemployment: Relative Demand Shocks, Wage Rigidities, and Temporary Immigrants

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003

educational level below apprenticeship were affected by such a shock. Furthermore, I test whether wages reacted flexibly to this …

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Income Inequality and Gender in New Zealand, 1998-2003

Papps, Kerry L. - 2004

A number of authors have documented an increase in earnings or income inequality in New Zealand during the late 1980s and early 1990s, a period of major economic reform, however no study has evaluated changes in inequality during the post-reform era. This paper applies a recently-developed...

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