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Increasing wage inequality between similar workers plays an important role for overall inequality trends in industrialized societies. To analyze this pattern, we incorporate directed labor market search into a dynamic model of international trade with heterogeneous firms and homogeneous workers....
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Increasing wage inequality between similar workers plays an important role for overall inequality trends in industrialized societies. To analyze this pattern, we incorporate directed labor market search into a dynamic model of international trade with heterogeneous firms and homogeneous workers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744665
, signifying widespread labor market hierarchies. While significant resources have been invested in migration and integration … policies, it remains unclear whether these contribute to or mitigate labor market hierarchies between natives and immigrants … with labor market hierarchies in terms of unemployment and employment quality gaps between immigrant and native populations …
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hierarchies. While prior studies examine only one particular firm, in this paper two plants of the same owners with similar …
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This paper explores the dynamics of wage growth in corporate hierarchies. Using panel data techniques, we estimate the …
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This paper examines the gender composition of the flow of new hirees along the organizational hierarchy of jobs. We find that women have a reduced chance to be hired at higher hierarchical levels. We refer to this phenomenon as the glass door. The glass door consists of an absolute and a...
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This paper studies gender interactions within hierarchical organizations using a large data set on the duration of Italian municipal governments elected between 1993 and 2003. A municipal government can be viewed as a hierarchy, whose stability over time depends on the degree of cooperation...
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hierarchies have a more important coordination role and it is weakened when the knowledge acquisition costs are high. The use of …The main function of hierarchies is to coordinate activities within an organisation, but a hierarchical structure also … workers is through job design. In organisations offering rewarding jobs, the incentivising role of hierarchies may become …
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In this paper we study the joint decision process of changing the structure of jobs and laying off individual workers in a firm that downsizes its workforce. A hierarchical decision model is proposed and estimated using personnel data from a firm in demise comparing the characteristics of the...
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This paper studies gender interactions within hierarchical organizations using a large data set on the duration of Italian municipal governments elected between 1993 and 2003. A municipal government can be viewed as a hierarchy, whose stability over time depends on the degree of cooperation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005103262