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History dependence in wages and cyclical selection : evidence from Germany
Bauer, Anja; Lochner, Benjamin - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 67 (2020)
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The pay gap of temporary agency workers — Does the temp sector experience pay off?
Jahn, Elke J.; Pozzoli, Dario - In: Labour Economics 24 (2013) C, pp. 48-57
It is a well-known fact that temporary agency workers accept high wage penalties compared to permanent workers. However … wage gap in Germany is estimated. Using a two-stage selection-corrected method within a panel data framework, the paper … shows that the wage gap for temps with low treatment intensity is high but decreases with time spent in the sector …
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The price of experience
Jeong, Hyeok; Kim, Yong; Manovskii, Iourii - 2012
We identify a key role of factor supply, driven by demographic changes, in shaping several empirical regularities that are a focus of active research in macro and labor economics. In particular, the large movements of the return to experience over the last four decades are almost perfectly...
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Global Trends in Income Inequality and Income Dynamics : New Insights from GRID
Guvenen, Fatih; Pistaferri, Luigi; Violante, Giovanni L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) is a new open-access, cross- country database that contains a wide range of micro statistics on income inequality, dynamics, and mobility. It has four key characteristics: it is built on micro panel data drawn from administrative records; it fully...
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Meritocracy across Countries
Bandiera, Oriana; Kotia, Ananya; Lindenlaub, Ilse; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on skills rather than idiosyncratic attributes unrelated to productivity? If so, why? And what are the aggregate consequences? Using internationally comparable data on worker skills and...
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What Explains the German Labor Market Miracle in the Great Recession?
Burda, Michael C; Hunt, Jennifer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
percent may be explained by wage moderation. A third important element was the widespread adoption of working time accounts …
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Entrepreneurship and the business cycle : nascent entrepreneurship can have some predictive power over the business cycle
Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2014
Entrepreneurship has a cyclical component, raising two questions. Is the entrepreneurship cycle related to the business cycle? And is there causality? A twoway relationship between entrepreneurship and the business cycle would be in line with the two faces of entrepreneurs: as agents of change...
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Unemployment benefits and job match quality : do unemployment benefits help those seeking work to obtain better jobs?
Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2014
Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and reducing their incentive to look for work. This trade-off between benefits and incentives is central to the public debate about extending benefit periods during the recent...
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Educational attainment, age and the consequences of job loss : empirical evidence from Germany
Effenberger, Alexandra; Lauber, Verena; Schmitz, Sebastian - 2019
-induced wage penalties for prime-age men. We show that individuals without formal qualifications face a significantly lower … between unemployment and an individual’s subsequent wage. This depressing impact is significant only for unqualified workers …
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Time is money : the influence of parenthood timing on wages
Kind, Michael; Kleibrink, Jan - 2012
study the underlying mechanisms of the wage premium, paying particular attention to the relationship between career stage … and fertility timing. We find that delaying parenthood by one additional year during the career implies a wage premium of … 7%. -- Fertility ; wage differentials ; career path …
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