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development of wages and employment across skill groups, there is considerable disagreement to explain these trends, in particular …
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selectivity of Brazilian workers into formal employment. The links between firm performance and wage components in Brazil resemble …
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We extend the literature on transition economies' wage structures by investigating the returns to tenure and experience. This study applies recent panel data and estimation approaches that control for hitherto neglected biases. We compare the life cycle structure in East and West German wages...
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findings suggest that the gain to employment in permanent jobs is higher for those with less experience in the domestic labor …
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This paper presents a tractable dynamic general equilibrium model that can explain cross-country empirical regularities in geographical mobility, unemployment and labor market institutions. Rational agents vote over unemployment insurance (UI), taking the dynamic distortionary e.ects of...
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This paper estimates the effect of innovation on employment at the firm level. Our uniquely long innovation panel data … panel GMM system estimation we find positive effects of innovation on employment. This result is robust to the use of …
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By international standards, unemployment in Sweden remained remarkably low throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. In the early 1990s, however, the unemployment rate skyrocketed and hit double-digit levels. Unemployment remained high for several years but exhibited a marked fall from 1997 and...
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can choose between employment and overtime (given mandated standard hours). Contrary to this approach, we follow the real … rate regimes obey common employment adjustment thresholds. …
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The role of product market reforms in achieving the objective of higher employment and growth has recently received …
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empirical evidence on the effects of low-wage subsidies is surprisingly scarce. This paper examines the employment effects of a … difference-in-difference-in-differences approach. Our results indicate that the subsidy system had no effects on the employment … rate. However, it appears to have increased the probability of part-time workers obtaining full-time employment. …
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