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We relate origin-destination real price differences to immigrants' reservation wages and their career trajectories … Germany when a unit of earnings from Germany allows for larger consumption at home settle for lower entry wages, but …
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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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Survey measures of the reservation wage reflect both the consumption-leisure trade-off and job search concerns (the arrival rate of job offers and the wage distribution). We examine what a survey measure of the reservation wage reveals about labor supply when search concerns are absent. To this...
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fare worse than similar workers from other sectors. Finally, self-reported reservation wages are found to respond strongly …
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allows them to extract the utility loss from a potential future divorce in the form of higher reservation wages, and thus …
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higher wages. The standard literature stipulates that the identity of the entity that is statutorily entitled for the subsidy … wages with the gift of exerting higher effort. Thus, if a wage subsidy is implemented by indirectly subsidizing employers …, employers face a lower cost of labor and increase their wages, leading workers to reciprocate with higher effort and …
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reform in Argentina that shifted the disbursement responsibility of child benefits from employers to a government agency in a …. Our evidence suggests that employers capture about 6-14 percent of the transfers through lower wages when they mediate the …
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Transfers from parents - either in the form of gifts or inheritances - have received much attention as a source of inequality. This paper uses a 19-year panel of administrative data for the population of Norway to examine the share of the Total Inflows available to an individual (defined as the...
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The tensions between books and book markets as expressions of culture and books as products in profit-making businesses are analysed and insights from the theory of industrial organisation are given. Governments intervene in the market for books through laws concerning prices of books, grants...
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This paper proposes a novel regularisation method for the estimation of large covariance matrices, which makes use of …
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