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The German "employment miracle", with a weak decline in employment and low unemployment during the great recession … wages and rising wage dispersion over time …
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but also analyze its effect on post-unemployment wages and job stability for unemployed Danish workers. We find evidence … intensity increases the likelihood of leaving unemployment for regular jobs. Our results show that agency employment is even … permanent posts. Finally, our results suggest that agency employment may improve subsequent match quality in terms of wages and …
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Labor markets are characterized by large heterogeneity in job stability. Some workers hold lifetime jobs, whereas others cycle repeatedly in and out of employment. This paper explores the economic consequences of such heterogeneity. Using Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) data, we document a...
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associated with higher job mobility. At firm level, there seems to be a trade-off between wages and job stability: High …-wage firms tend to be low-tenure firms, which suggests that low job stability may be compensated by higher wages. High …
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BHPS panels. The distinction between perceived worry about job loss and economic indicators such as regional unemployment … rates and the share of temporary contracts is established. The bargaining hypothesis that job security and wages are … hypothesis is contrasted with Rosen's theory of equalising differences where security and wages are substitutes. The empirical …
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adjustment in the Russian transition process has been the delayed receipt of wages. More than half the workforce is experiencing … firm not paying wages in full or on time if the outside labor market is sufficiently dynamic …
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We investigate the impact of labour market concentration on two dimensions of job quality, namely wages and job … and local product market concentration, we show that the elasticities of wages with respect to labour market concentration … are strikingly similar across countries: increasing labour market concentration by 10% reduces wages by 0.19% in Germany …
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Atypical employment arrangements such as agency temporary work and contracting have long been criticized as offering more precarious and unstable work than regular employment. Using data from two datasets - the CAEAS and the NLSY79 - we determine whether workers who take such jobs rather than...
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in direction and magnitude with the ones from objective unemployment and being out of the labor force. However, our …
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The social norm of unemployment suggests that aggregate unemployment reduces the well-being of the employed, but has a … the appropriate distinction may not be between employment and unemployment, but rather between higher and lower levels of … affected by regional unemployment. However, insecure employed men and poor-prospect unemployed men are less negatively, or even …
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