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significant changes in the Finnish labor market. The study finds that in-school work experience increases graduates' earnings at … the beginning of the career, but there are no statistically significant persistent effects on employment or earnings after …
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status – not working, public sector employment, private sector employment and self-employment – and earnings for each of the …
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, earnings, education etc.), we follow those affected until 1999. We compare this with the corresponding development of a large … shipyard workers and miners. They have higher employment, not higher unemployment, and higher earnings than the comparison …
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, and black males). These three all experience a greater decline in earnings at plant closings than at layouts. This results … loss in earnings at layouts after 1991 than prior; and that's what we find in the data. In addition, as further evidence …
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with 6.5 percent higher average earnings over the first three years in the labor market. These results are the first direct …
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This paper studies the determinants and labor market consequences of unemployed workers' wage demands using direct data on the workers' actual wage requests. Our results show that most workers want a wage close to what they earned in their previous jobs, and thus much more than they get in...
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worker earnings. Our version of the Stolper-Samuelson theorem states that there is a negative correlation between occupation … exposure to Chinese competition and change in worker earnings. First, we document substantial heterogeneity in trade adjustment … occupations more intensively used in hard-hit industries experience larger declines in earnings. We also show that workers tend to …
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The factors behind the increase in the relative wages of skilled workers in developing countries are still not well understood. The authors use data from Peru to analyze the determinants of within-industry share of skilled workers. They use a translog cost function for gross output and are...
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