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effect on wages conditional on employment. The employment effect appears to be due to the effect of differences in the … and find that a ten-percentage-point increase in the initial conational share lowers employment rates by 3.1 percentage …
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Naturalization may be a relevant policy instrument affecting immigrant integration in host-country labor markets. We study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and exploit a reform of naturalization rules in an instrumental...
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This paper studies the cyclical behaviour of earnings risk and career changes. We document that the procyclical … skewness of the earnings growth distribution arises mostly from the earnings changes of employer and occupation switchers. To … uncover their relative importance in driving cyclical earnings changes and whether this arises from changes in the returns to …
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We explore whether there is a gender wage gap in one of the largest EU online labor markets, PeoplePerHour. Our unique dataset consists of 257,111 digitally tradeable tasks of 55,824 hiring employers from 188 countries and 65,010 workers from 173 countries that made more than 2.5 million wage...
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preferences for public sector employment and employers. In fixed effects specifications, we demonstrate that feelings of job …
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This paper revisits an important analysis of enterprise zones (EZs) by Ham, Swenson, İmrohoroğlu, and Song (2011), who report substantial poverty reductions from state and federal EZs, as well as improvements in other labor market outcomes. In our re-analysis, we find that a data error...
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attachment. Exploiting variation in labor market tightness across metropolitan areas, we show that the employment of populations … the employment of less attached workers when the central bank follows an average inflation targeting rule and when the …
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inequality. Using rich matched employer-employee data from Norway, we find that profit-shifting firms pay higher wages …. CEOs particularly gain, with their wages rising nearly 10%. These results thus suggest that profit shifting by …-of-the-envelope calculations suggest these higher wages would generate additional income tax revenues which would offset around 3% of the fall in …
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We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian … show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first child on the overall gender gap in employment is accounted for … by gender disparities in non-local employment, with mothers being more likely to give up non-local employment compared to …
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This paper studies the relationship between changes in occupational employment, occupational wages, and rising overall … counteracting skill changes along the lines of our new empirical fact explain why occupational wages are unrelated to employment … occupations, entrants and leavers earn lower wages than stayers. This empirical fact suggests substantial skill selection effects …
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