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The Labor Market Costs of Conflict : Closures, Foreign Workers, and Palestinian Employment and Earnings

Sauer, Robert M. - 2006

In this paper, we measure the implications of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for Palestinian employment and earnings. We quantify the conflict by the frequency of temporary closures of the West Bank and Gaza Strip and the number of overseas foreign workers in the Israeli labor market. Data on...

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Earnings Losses of Displaced Workers : Evidence from a Matched Employer-Employee Data Set

Carneiro, Anabela Jesus Moreira; Portugal, Pedro - 2021

This paper examines the long-term earnings losses of displaced workers in Portugal, using a nationally representative longitudinal linked employer-employee data set. The results show that four years after displacement the earnings of displaced workers remain around 9% (women) to 12% (men) below...

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Temporary Agency Work in Portugal, 1995 - 2000

Böheim, René; Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2021

in TAW than their peers in other firms, as opposed to prime - age and older workers. Moreover, for young workers TAW is … not associated with a stigma effect that slows wage progression after working for TAW, contrary to prime - age and older … workers, in particular males. The wage trends are also different before entering TAW. Prime - age and older workers see their …

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The Life-Cycle and the Business-Cycle of Wage Risk : A Cross-Country Comparison

Bayer, Christian - 2009

, we find that household characteristics explain about 25% of the dispersion in wages within an age group in all three … countries. Second, the cross-sectional variance of wages is almost linearly increasing in household age in all three countries …

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Is it the Way She Moves? New Evidence on the Gender Wage Growth Gap in the Early Careers of Men and Women in Italy

Bono, Emilia Del - 2007

This paper explores newly available Italian data derived from a 1:90 sample of social security administrative records (INPS) to investigate gender differences in pay during the initial stages of a worker's career. We find that a significant and growing pay differential between men and women...

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The Effect of the Hartz Labor Market Reforms on Post-Unemployment Wages, Sorting, and Matching

Woodcock, Simon D. - 2020

We use linked longitudinal data on employers and employees to estimate how the 2003-2005 Hartz reforms affected the wages of displaced German workers after they returned to work. We also present a simple new method to decompose the wage effects into components attributable to selection on...

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Earnings Losses and the Role of the Welfare State During the COVID-19 Pandemic : Evidence from Sweden

Adermon, Adrian; Laun, Lisa; Lind, Patrik; Olsson, Martin; … - 2022

Many governments introduced temporary adjustments to counter the economic and health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. We study the importance of already existing government transfers and pandemic measures to mitigate individual income losses during the pandemic in Sweden using a...

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A Simple Method to Estimate Large Fixed Effects Models Applied to Wage Determinants and Matching

Mittag, Nikolas - 2017

Models with high dimensional sets of fixed effects are frequently used to examine, among others, linked employer-employee data, student outcomes and migration. Estimating these models is computationally difficult, so simplifying assumptions that are likely to cause bias are often invoked to make...

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Work and Wage Dynamics Around Childbirth

Ejrnæs, Mette - 2011

This study investigates how the first childbirth affects the wage processes of highly attached women. We estimate a flexible fixed effects wage regression model extended with post-birth fixed effects by the control function approach. Register data on West Germany are used and we exploit the...

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Dynamics of Earnings and Hourly Wages in Germany

Myck, Michał; Ochmann, Richard R.; Qari, Salmai - 2021

There is by now a vast number of studies which document a sharp increase in cross-sectional wage inequality during the 2000s. It is often assumed that this inequality is of a permanent nature which in turn is used as an argument calling for government intervention. We examine these claims using...

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