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The effect of public sector employment on local labour markets

Faggio, Giulia; Overman, Henry - In: Journal of Urban Economics 79 (2014) C, pp. 91-107

This paper considers the impact of public sector employment on local labour markets. Using English data at the Local Authority level for 2003–2007 we find that public sector employment has no identifiable effect on total private sector employment. However, public sector employment does affect...

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Inter-firm dependency and employment inequalities : Theoretical hypotheses and empirical tests

Perraudin, Corinne; Petit, Héloïse; Thèvenot, Nadine; … - HAL - 2009

This article highlights the importance of power relations in inter-firm relations and analyses their impact on firms' employment management practices. We show, firstly, that the use of subcontracting creates a chain of inter-firm economic dependency because it leads the principal contractor to...

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Estimating Gender Differences in Access to Jobs

Gobillon, Laurent; Meurs, Dominique; Roux, Sébastien - HAL - 2013

This paper proposes a new measure of gender di¤erences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure is the probability ratio of getting a job for females and males at each rank of the wage ladder. We derive a non-parametric estimator of this access measure and estimate it for...

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Working in family firms: less paid but more secure? Evidence from French matched employer-employee data

Bassanini, Andrea; Breda, Thomas; Caroli, Eve; … - HAL - 2010

establishments in the 2000s, we first show that family firms pay on average lower wages to their workers. This family/non-family wage …

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Employment, unemployment, and underemployment in Africa

Golub, Stephen; Hayat, Faraz - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

This paper documents and analyses the predominance of informal employment in Africa and shows that lack of demand for labour rather than worker characteristics is the main reason for pervasive underemployment. Integration into the global economy and expor

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Obesity and the Labor Market: A Fresh Look at the Weight Penalty

Caliendo, Marco; Gehrsitz, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

OLS specifications, which have been the main approaches in previous studies. Women's wages and employment probabilities do … lower wages because they lack the muscular strength required in such occupations. …

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Migration and Imperfect Labor Markets: Theory and Cross-Country Evidence from Denmark, Germany and the UK

Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J.; Upward, Richard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and unemployment benefits affect the way in which wages respond to labor supply … shocks, and, hence, the labor market effects of immigration. We employ a wage-setting approach which assumes that wages …

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The family gap in wages: What wombmates reveal

Simonsen, Marianne; Skipper, Lars - In: Labour Economics 19 (2012) 1, pp. 102-112

We shed new light on the effects of having children on hourly wages by exploiting access to data on the entire … amount of hours off due to holidays and sickness. Our results suggest that childbearing reduces female hourly wages but the …

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Local labor markets and crimes by non-residents

Filiztekin, Alpay - European Regional Science Association - 2013

of unemployment rate and average wages on crime in a region committed by non-residents, as well as implement a gravity …

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The cohort size-wage relationship in Europe

Roth, Duncan; Moffat, John - European Regional Science Association - 2013

is declining while that of the highly educated is rising. This study estimates the impact of cohort size on wages using … effect of cohort size on individual wages rather than on the average wage of a specific age-education group which allows … controlling for potentially confounding effects at the individual level. The effect of cohort size on male wages is identified …

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