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Owusu-Afriyie, John; Twumasi Baffour, Priscilla; … - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 2, pp. 1-16

(GLFS 2015) respectively. The findings indicate that unions' bargaining effect on wages is positive. Furthermore, the study … strength of unions. It is against this background that our study seeks to examine the effect of unions' bargaining (proxied by … union presence variable) on wages in Ghana. We employ the Heckman Selection Model and quantile regression technique to …

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Firm pay and worker search

Caldwell, Sydnee; Haegele, Ingrid; Heining, Jörg - 2025

Whether and how workers search on the job depends on their beliefs about pay and working conditions in other firms. Yet little is known about workers' knowledge of outside pay. We use a large-scale survey of full-time German workers, linked to their Social Security records, to elicit pay...

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Labor market turnover and inequality in Latin America

Menezes-Filho, Naercio Aquino; Narita, Renata - 2023

This paper describes the patterns of worker turnover in selected Latin American countries and their implications for wage inequality. It documents a higher positive annual wage growth rate for job to job changers compared to stayers, due to turnover capturing the immediate gains from search...

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Beyond lost earnings : the long-term impact of job displacement on workers' commuting behavior

Duan, Yige; Jost, Oskar; Jost, Ramona - 2022

model predicts a joint recovery of wages and commuting despite a static tradeoff between the two attributes. …

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Directed search, wages, and nonwage amenities : evidence from an online job board

Escudero, Verónica; Liepmann, Hannah; Vergara, Damián - 2025

applications, focusing on posted wages and advertised non-wage amenities. We find robust evidence of directed search based on … posted wages in the cross-section, with stark heterogeneity by occupation: the wage-application correlation is driven by … responsiveness to posted wages. By applying text analysis to the job ads, we elicit advertised non-wage amenities and find evidence …

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The costs of job displacement over the business cycle and its sources : evidence from Germany

Schmieder, Johannes; Wachter, Till von; Heining, Jörg - 2022

downturns. A large part of the long-term earnings losses and their cyclicality is driven by declines in wages. Key to these long …

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Earnings dynamics and labor market reforms : the Italian case

Hoffmann, Eran B.; Malacrino, Davide; Pistaferri, Luigi - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 4, pp. 1637-1667

This paper summarizes statistics on the key aspects of the distribution of earnings levels and earnings changes using administrative (social security) data from Italy between 1985 and 2016. During the time covered by our data, earnings inequality and earnings volatility increased, while earnings...

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Flexibilität unter Kontrolle? : Entwicklungen und Herausforderungen der Tarifabweichungen in der Metall- und Elektroindustrie

Haipeter, Thomas - In: Industrielle Beziehungen : Zeitschrift für Arbeit, … 27 (2020) 4, pp. 481-500

Tarifabweichungen gehören mittlerweile in den deutschen Industriebranchen zum Kernbestand des Tarifsystems. Waren ihre Bewertungen früher stark umstritten, so scheint heute der Pulverdampf weitgehend verflogen. Tarifabweichungen sind in den Industriebranchen - und dort vor allem auch in der...

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Pension Coverage for Parents and Educational Investment in Children: Evidence from Urban China

Mu, Ren; Du, Yang - In: The World Bank Economic Review 31 (2017) 2, pp. 483-503

support decreases, and their need to save for retirement also falls. In this study, the expansion of pension coverage from the … total education expenditure is found to be attributable to pension expansion. The results are unlikely to be driven by other …

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Aging, inadequacy, and fiscal constraint : the case of Thailand

Phitawat Poonpolkul; Ponpoje Porapakkarm; Nada Wasi - In: International studies of economics 19 (2024) 1, pp. 35-67

benefits and pension-tested benefits. We find that pension-testing effectively improves the targeting efficiency, and … aging population. We use Thailand as a case study and incorporate its labor market structure and its public pension system … ineligible for SS annuity benefits because of an insufficient number of years paying into the SS fund. In addition, we use our …

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