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Long term earnings inequality, earnings instability and temporary employment in Spain: 1993 - 2000

Cervini Plá, María; Ramos, Xavier - 2008

This paper provides a longitudinal perspective on changes in Spanish male earnings inequality for the period 1993-2000, by decomposing the earnings covariance structure into its permanent and transitory parts. According to the Spanish sample of the European Community Household Panel,...

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Comparing Apples with Oranges : Revisiting the Gender Wage Gap in an International Perspective

Plasman, Robert; Sissoko, Salimata - 2004

sector for a sample of five European economies: Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Italy and Spain. Using different methods, we …

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Wages and the bargaining regime under multi-level bargaining: Belgium, Denmark and Spain

Plasman, Robert; Rusinek, Michael; Rycx, François - 2006

by a multi-level system of bargaining: Belgium, Denmark and Spain. Our findings show that, compared to multi …. In Spain, single-employer bargaining also increases wage levels but reduces wage dispersion. Our interpretation is that … in Belgium and Denmark, single-employer bargaining is used to adapt pay to the specific needs of the firm while, in Spain …

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Establishment size and the dispersion of wages: evidence from European countries

Lallemand, Thierry; Rycx, François - 2005

We investigate how the wage distribution differs among small and large establishments in four European countries. Findings show that within-establishment wage dispersion rises with size because large employers have a more diverse workforce. They also suggest that screening and monitoring costs...

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Temporary help work: Compensating differentials and multiple job-holding

Hamersma, Sarah; Heinrich, Carolyn J.; Mueser, Peter R. - 2012

Temporary Help Services (THS) employment has been growing in size, particularly among disadvantaged workers, and in importance in balancing cyclical fluctuations in labor demand. Does THS employment provide some benefits to disadvantaged workers, or divert them from better jobs? We investigate...

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The role of temporary help agencies in facilitating temp-to-perm transitions

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Malo, Miguel A.; … - 2006

This paper evaluates the impact of agency work on temporary workers' posterior likelihood of being hired on a permanent basis. We use administrative data on two groups of temporary workers for whom we have complete work histories since they are first observed in 1998 until the year 2004. One...

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The Role of Temporary Help Agencies in Facilitating Temp-to-Perm Transitions

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Malo, Miguel A.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper evaluates the impact of agency work on temporary workers’ posterior likelihood of being hired on a permanent basis. We use administrative data on two groups of temporary workers for whom we have complete work histories since they are first observed in 1998 until the year 2004. One...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762064

Long Term Earnings Inequality, Earnings Instability and Temporary Employment in Spain: 1993–2000

Cervini, María; Ramos, Xavi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

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Employment Consequences of Restrictive Permanent Contracts: Evidence from Spanish Labor Market Reforms

Kugler, Adriana D.; Jimeno, Juan F.; Hernanz, Virginia - 2003

Temporary employment contracts allowing unrestricted dismissals were introduced in Spain in 1984 and quickly came to …

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Union density and varieties of coverage: the anatomy of union wage effects in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten; Lembcke, Alexander C. - 2008

Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining coverage is much higher than union density; and not all employees in a covered firm are necessarily covered. This institutional setup suggests to explicitly distinguish union...

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