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microeconomic data for more than 100,000 European individuals, the results show that welfare regimes make a difference for wages and …
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labor market, looking at both wage and employment effects. Using the Regional File of the IAB Employment Subsample for the … employment levels. It had instead adverse employment and wage effects on previous waves of immigrants. This stems from the fact …
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relative to male wages, but female employment has fallen 5 percentage points more than male employment. Using the German Socio … of the hazard rate from employment. Differences in mean 1990 wages explain more than one-half of the gender gap in this … hazard rate, since low earners were more likely to leave employment, and were disproportionately female. The withdrawal from …
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Examining detailed data on Swedish MNCs during the period 1986-1994, this paper shows that there are signs of very …
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International economic integration is often blamed for the deteriorating fortunes of unskilled workers in industrial countries. We look at the labour market impact of trade and foreign direct investment in the case of Italy. Our empirical framework allows for trade, technology and factor supply...
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dynamics of employment and unemployment in order to identify key issues for the sources of the malfunctioning of these labour … passive labour market policies, and the structure of employment and output. …
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reductions in other sectors. The union campaign aimed to increase employment through ‘work-sharing’, and is being emulated in the … United States with the launch of a reduced hours campaign by the AFL-CIO. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, I …
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For the first time, nationally representative data on women's employment histories are used to study the gap between … discrimination. Using data collected in the 1980 Women and Employment Survey, we find that women's wages would be between 20 and 25 … characteristics (such as education, work experience, and time spent out of employment by women), and a gap attributable to gender …
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Differences in the rate of population growth between developed and developing countries have potentially important implications for patterns of trade, migration, and the distribution of the gains from economic activity, both within and between nations. This paper focuses on migration-related...
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negotiations. Wage and employment decisions are assumed to be made before business conditions are known; thus these decisions … effectiveness of various government policies on production, employment, and pricing. Hysteresis is shown to be a special case in a …
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