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Are Wages in Southern Europe More Flexible? : The Effects of Cohort Size on European Earnings

Brunello, Giorgio; Lauer, Charlotte - 2004

study how cohort size has affected real earnings in Europe. When we pool the data of all countries, we find that cohort size …

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Are Wages in Southern Europe More Flexible? The Effects of Cohort Size on European Earnings

Brunello, Giorgio; Lauer, Charlotte - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

study how cohort size has affected real earnings in Europe. When we pool the data of all countries, we find that cohort size …

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The Learning Crisis: Three Years After COVID-19

Gajderowicz, Tomasz; Jakubowski, Maciej; Kennedy, Alec; … - 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic caused widespread disruptions to education, with school closures affecting over one billion children. These closures, aimed at reducing virus transmission, resulted in significant learning losses, particularly in mathematics and science. Using data from TIMSS 2023, which...

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Immigration, Monopsony and the Distribution of Firm Pay

Amior, Michael; Stuhler, Jan - 2023

We argue that the arrival of immigrants with low reservation wages can strengthen the monopsony power of firms. Firms … can exploit "cheap" migrant labor by offering lower wages, though at the cost of forgoing potential native hires who … demand higher wages. This monopsonistic trade-off can lead to large negative effects on native employment, which exceed those …

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Legal default rules: the case of wrongful discharge laws

MacLeod, W. Bentley; Nakavachara, Voraprapa - 2006

One of the most vexing public policy issues is the extent to which governments should intervene into private contractual relationships. The purpose of this paper is to explore both theoretically and empirically the extent to which such interventions may enhance efficiency. In the case of...

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Male wage inequality and marital dissolution: Is there a link?

Bellou, Andriana - 2013

After almost a century-long pattern of rising marital instability, divorce rates leveled off in 1980 and have been declining ever since. The timing of deceleration and decline in the rates of marital disruption interestingly coincides with a period of substantial growth in wage inequality. This...

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The US Labor Market in 2030: A Scenario Based on Current Trends in Supply and Demand

Edwards, Rebecca; Lange, Fabian - 2013

Three fundamental forces have shaped labor markets over the last 50 years: the secular increase in the returns to education, educational upgrading, and the integration of large numbers of women into the workforce. We modify the Katz and Murphy (1992) framework to predict the structure of the...

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Baby-Boom, Baby-Bust and the Great Depression

Bellou, Andriana; Cardia, Emanuela - 2014

s and 1950s as economic conditions improved, decreasing wages and reducing work incentives for younger women. Its …

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The Evolution of Hourly Compensation in Canada between 1980 and 2010

Duclos, Jean-Yves; Pellerin, Mathieu - 2015

National Household Survey over the last three decades. We find that the coefficient of variation of wages among full …, composition changes explain most of the increase in average hourly compensation over those three decades, while wages stagnate …

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Make Yourselves Scarce: The Effect of Demographic Change on the Relative Wages and Employment Rates of Experienced Workers

Böhm, Michael Johannes; Siegel, Christian - 2019

We argue that rising supply of experience not only reduces experienced workers' relative wages but also their relative … structures a decade earlier. We find that aging substantially reduces experienced workers' relative wages and employment rates … might be more severe than previously recognized, as it reaches beyond wages. …

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