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Kudlyak, Marianna; Tasci, Murat; Tüzemen, Didem - 2022

Using a unique data set and a novel identification strategy, we estimate the effect of minimum wage increases on job vacancy postings. Utilizing occupation-specific county- level vacancy data from the Conference Board's Help Wanted Online for 2005-2018, we find that state-level minimum wage...

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The Unequal Cost of Job Loss Across Countries

Bertheau, Antoine; Acabbi, Edoardo; Barceló, Cristina; … - 2022

We document the consequences of losing a job across countries using a harmonized research design. Workers in Denmark and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while workers in Italy, Spain, and Portugal experience losses three times as high. French and...

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Do Informal Referrals Lead to Better Matches? Evidence from a Firm's Employee Referral System

Brown, Meta - 2014

hiring process and the relationships among referrals, match quality, wage trajectories and turnover for a single U …Using a new firm-level dataset that includes explicit information on referrals by current employees, we investigate the ….S. corporation, and test various predictions of theoretical models of labor market referrals. We find that referred candidates are …

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Measuring Heterogeneity in Job Finding Rates Among the Nonemployed Using Labor Force Status Histories

Kudlyak, Marianna - 2014

We use a novel approach to studying the heterogeneity in the job finding rates of the nonemployed by classifying the nonemployed by labor force status (LFS) histories, instead of using only one-month LFS. Job finding rates differ substantially across LFS histories: they are 25-30% among those...

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The Quality-Adjusted Cyclical Price of Labor

Bils, Mark; Kudlyak, Marianna; Lins, Paulo - 2023

Typical measures of wages, such as average hourly earnings, fail to capture cyclicality in the effective cost of labor in the presence of (i) cyclical fluctuations in the quality of worker-firm matches, or (ii) wages being smoothed within employment matches. To address both concerns, we estimate...

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Atypical Work : Who Gets it, and Where Does it Lead? Some U.S. Evidence Using the NLSY79

Addison, John T. - 2009

Atypical work arrangements have long been criticized as offering more precarious and lower paid work than regular open-ended employment. In an important paper, Booth et al. (2002) were among the first to recognize that notwithstanding their potential deficiencies, such jobs also functioned as a...

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Wage Posting or Wage Bargaining? Evidence from the Employers' Side

Brenzel, Hanna - 2013

Using a representative establishment dataset, this paper is the first to analyze the incidence of wage posting and wage bargaining in the matching process from the employer's side. We show that both modes of wage determination coexist in the German labor market, with about two-thirds of hirings...

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How Substitutable are Workers? Evidence from Worker Deaths

Jäger, Simon; Heining, Jörg - 2022

We estimate how exogenous worker exits affect firms' demand for incumbent workers and new hires. Drawing on administrative data from Germany, we analyze 34,000 unexpected worker deaths, which, on average, raise the remaining workers' wages and retention probabilities. The average effect masks...

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The Bonding Effect of Deferred Compensation : Worker Separations from a Large Firm in Early Transition Russia

Ananyev, Mikhail - 2020

Deferred payments, as implicit contracts, are predicted to bind workers to firms as long as workers believe that firms adhere to these implicit contracts. We employ a unique personnel data set from a Russian manufacturing firm to investigate whether wage arrears, delayed payments of wages,...

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How Do We Think the Covid-19 Crisis Will Affect Our Careers (If Any Remain)?

Baert, Stijn - 2020

This study is the first in the world to investigate the expected impact of the COVID-19 crisis on career outcomes and career aspirations. To this end, high-quality survey research with a relevant panel of Belgian employees was conducted. About 21% of them fear losing their jobs due to the...

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