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Employment, Wages, and the Economic Cycle : Differences between Immigrants and Natives
Dustmann, Christian - 2009
differential wage responses to economic shocks. We offer three explanations for these findings: An equilibrium search model, where …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155564
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On-the-Job Search, Productivity Shocks and the Individual Earnings Process
Postel-Vinay, Fabien - 2006
job search model how the combined assumptions of on-the-job search and wage renegotiation by mutual consent act as a … quantitatively plausible quot;internal propagation mechanismquot; of i.i.d. productivity shocks into persistent wage shocks. The … model suggests that wage dynamics should be thought of as the outcome of a specific acceptance/rejection scheme of i …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780530
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Temporary Contracts and Monopsony Power in the UK Labour Market
Tabasso, Domenico - 2011
a model is developed in which the labour market is described as a duopsony and the relation between wage and non … compensating differentials. In particular, while the wage dynamic related to workers shifting from a temporary contract to another … wage and commuting time persists, irrespective of the type of contract …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121764
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Fewer Jobs or Smaller Paychecks? Aggregate Crisis Impacts in Selected Middle-Income Countries
Khanna, Gaurav - 2011
This paper reviews evidence from 44 middle income countries on how the recent financial crisis affected jobs and workers' income. In addition to providing a rare assessment of the magnitude of the impact across several middle-income countries, the paper describes how labor markets adjusted and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120422
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Employment Adjustment and Part-Time Jobs : The U.S. and the U.K. In the Great Recession
Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel - 2016
We document that fluctuations in part-time employment play a major role in movements in hours per worker, especially during cyclical swings in the labor market. Building on this result, we propose a novel representation of the intensive margin based on a stock-flow framework. The evolution of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012995588
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Caught in the Cycle : Economic Conditions at Enrollment and Labor Market Outcomes of College Graduates
Bicakova, Alena - 2020
We find robust evidence that cohorts of male graduates who start college during worse economic times earn higher average wages than those who start during better times. This gap is not explained by differences in selection into employment, in economic conditions at the time of college...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826248
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Job Re-Grading, Real Wages, and the Cycle
Hart, Robert A. - 2011
more procyclical than job stayers. This lends support to the predicted procyclical real wage effects of the Reynolds … exhibit the same degrees of wage cyclicality and these are considerably greater than for job stayers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121341
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Real Wages, Working Time, and the Great Depression : What Does Micro Evidence Tell Us?
Hart, Robert A. - 2010
groups are broken down into 14 occupations, and 48 travel-to-work geographical districts. We estimate wage and hours …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141743
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Piece Work Pay and Hourly Pay Over the Cycle
Hart, Robert A. - 2021
This paper investigates the relative cyclical behavior of the pay of piece workers and hourly paid workers. It uses a unique data set of blue-collar workers in British engineering between 1926 and 1966. The statistics are obtained from the payrolls of firms belonging to the Engineering Employers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317530
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A Good Time to Stay Out? Strikes and the Business Cycle
Devereux, Paul J.; Hart, Robert A. - 2021
In this paper, we compile a unique historical dataset that records strike activity in the British engineering industry from 1920 to 1970. These data have the advantage of containing a fairly homogenous set of companies and workers, covering a long period with varying labour market conditions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325061