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expensive older workers into retirement. Based on the seniority wage model developed by Lazear (1979), we discuss steep … seniority wage profiles as incentives for firms to dismiss older workers before retirement. Conditional on individual retirement … incentives, e.g., social security wealth or health status, the steepness of the wage profile will have different incentives for …
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How does small-firm employment respond to exogenous labor productivity risk? We find that this depends on the capitalization of firms' local banks. The evidence comes from firms offering (quasi-) fixed employment to workers whose productivity depends on the weather. Weather risk reduces this...
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Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countriesfor the participants. There is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered,and there might be an important element of selection in who obtains an apprenticeship, andwhat type. To...
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Two very different approaches are used to explore the relation between market orientationand gender wage differentials … in international data. More market orientation might be relatedto gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in …
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share of females reducing the wage level. These results are compatible with a theory where job promotion is an important … factor of wage increases: if more females are to be mentored, less promotion slots are available for males, but also the …
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We show that providing publicly available wage information in vacancies, so-called external pay transparency, can … reduce the gender wage gap. There is an increasing interest in pay transparency policies as a tool to combat unequal pay. We … exploit a reform of Austria's Equal Treatment Law to evaluate how providing wage information in vacancies affects the gender …
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Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. There is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and there might be an important element of selection in who obtains an apprenticeship, and what type. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316777
Two very different approaches are used to explore the relation between market orientation and gender wage differentials … in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in … calculating internationally consistent gender wage residuals in the first place. By comparing these two very different methods of …
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endogeneity concerns arising in this context, we estimate time-invariant firm-specific wage components and use them as instruments …
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We analyze the effect of automation and offshorability on unemployment duration and post-unemployment outcomes such as wages and employment stability. Our rich administrative data allow us to evaluate the importance of providing unemployment training in this context. Employing a multivariate...
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