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Individual Pay and Outside Options: Evidence from the Polish Labour Force Survey

Duffy, Fiona; Walsh, Patrick Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

Using Polish Labour Force Survey data, we examine whether competition for labour has induced individual pay to depend on outside options, availability and quality of jobs. Exploiting the lack of inter-regional job and worker flows we estimate the elasticity of individual pay, amongst a rich set...

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Preferences for Collective versus Individualised Wage Setting

Boeri, Tito; Burda, Michael C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Standard models of equilibrium unemployment assume exogenous labour market institutions and flexible wage determination. This paper models wage rigidity and collective bargaining endogenously, when workers differ by observable skill and may adopt either individualized or collective wage...

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The Peter Principle: A Theory of Decline

Lazear, Edward P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

Some have observed that individuals perform worse after being promoted. The Peter Principle, which states that people are promoted to their level of incompetence, suggests that something is fundamentally misaligned in the promotion process. This view is unnecessary and inconsistent with the...

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The Brain Drain: Curse or Boon?

Commander, Simon; Kangasniemi, Mari; Winters, L. Alan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

The migration of skilled individuals from developing countries has typically been considered to be costly for the sending country, due to lost investments in education, high fiscal costs and labour market distortions. Economic theory, however, raises the possibility of a beneficial brain drain...

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The Self-Selection of Migrant Workers Revisited

Yashiv, Eran - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Work of low-skilled migrant workers from developing countries in developed economies is a growing phenomenon and a key political and economic issue. An extensive literature has found (for the most part) that these workers come from the lower part of the skill distribution. This paper revisits...

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Classification Error in Dynamic Discrete Choice Models: Implications for Female Labor Supply Behavior

Keane, Michael P.; Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Two key issues in the literature on female labor supply are: (1) if persistence in employment status is due to … unobserved heterogeneity or state dependence, and (2) if fertility is exogenous to labor supply. Until recently, the consensus … a dynamic panel probit model of female labor supply including heterogeneity and state dependence, he found that adding …

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Is Job Stability Declining in Germany? Evidences from Count Data Models

Winkelmann, Rainer; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1998

The macro evidence of increased adjustment pressure since the early seventies suggests that job mobility should have increased. Hence, retrospective and spell data from the German Socio-Economic Panel are combined in order to test the hypothesis that job stability for German workers declined...

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Job Creation, Job Destruction and Employment Growth in Transition Countries in the 90's

Faggio, Giulia; Konings, Josez - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

In this paper we document and analyse gross job flows in five transition countries, Poland, Estonia, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Romania. Using comparable firm level data over the years 1993- 1997, we find that in early transition job destruction dominates job creation, while the latter is picking up...

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Measuring Labor Market Frictions: A Cross-Country Comparison

Ridder, Geert; den Berg, Gerard J. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

In this paper we define and estimate measures of labor market frictions using data on job durations. We compare …

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Efficiency in a Search and Matching Model with Endogenous Participation

Albrecht, James; Navarro, Lucas; Vroman, Susan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We show that in a search/matching model with endogenous participation in which workers are heterogeneous with respect to market productivity, satisfying the Hosios rule leads to excessive vacancy creation. The reason is that the marginal worker does not internalize the effect of his or her...

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