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Holmlund, Bertil - 2014

offers a brief overview and discussion of research on the labor market impacts of minimum wages (MW), unemployment insurance … result of frequent failures to find noticeable employment effects despite considerable effects on wages. EPL research has …

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Do labor market institutions influence suicide mortality? : an international panel data analysis

Breuer, Christian; Rottmann, Horst - 2014

We examine the economic and social determinants of suicide mortality in a panel of 25 OECD countries over the period 1970 - 2011 and explicitly analyze the effects of unemployment and labor market institutions on suicide rates. In line with a large body of literature our results suggest that...

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Trade liberalization and working conditions

Alvarez, Bastien; Orefice, Gianluca; Toubal, Farid - 2025

This paper examines how trade liberalization-induced labor demand shocks affect wages and non-wage working conditions … wages, which may reflect firms’ ability to expand employment without raising pay due to labor supply elasticity and … unemployment. Import liberalization weakly affects working conditions but, consistent with previous studies, lowers wages as firms …

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Returns to tenure or seniority?

Buhai, Sebastian; Portela, Miguel; Teulings, Coen N.; … - 2008

, are the first to leave the firm (Last In, First Out; LIFO). Second, workers' wages rise with seniority (= a worker … to seniority in wages. Efficiency in hiring requires the workers' bargaining power to be in line with their share in the …

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High-pressure, high-paying jobs?

Nagler, Markus; Rincke, Johannes; Winkler, Erwin - 2022

Work-related stress has reportedly increased over time. Using worker-level survey data, we build a measure of work pressure strongly associated with adverse health outcomes. In line with theories of compensating differentials, work pressure comes with a sizable earnings premium, even within...

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What does codetermination do?

Jäger, Simon; Noy, Shakked; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021

We provide a comprehensive overview of codetermination, i.e., worker representation in firms' governance and management. We cover the institution’s history, implementation, and the best available evidence on its economic impacts. We argue that existing quasi-experimental estimates suggest that...

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Voice at work

Harju, Jarkko; Jäger, Simon; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021

(job security, health, subjective job quality, and wages). Worker voice slightly raised firm survival, productivity, and …

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Labour market institutions and the employment intensity of output growth : an international comparison

Flaig, Gebhard (contributor); Rottmann, Horst (contributor) - 2007

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"The double dividend of Training" : labor market effects of work-related continuous education in Switzerland

Denzler, Stefan; Ruhose, Jens; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022

This paper presents the first longitudinal estimates of the effect of work-related training on labor market outcomes in Switzerland. Using a novel dataset that links official census data on adult education to longitudinal register data on labor market outcomes, we apply a regression-adjusted...

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Biased expectations and labor market outcomes : evidence from German survey data and implications for the East-West wage gap

Balleer, Almut; Duernecker, Georg; Forstner, Susanne; … - 2023

expectations and wages, and a significantly positive relationship between optimistic bias in job finding expectations and … search and matching model of the labor market. Removing the biases could substantially increase wages and expected lifetime …

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