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. Part of the different effects found for plants and individuals can be attributed to the reallocation of workers into other …
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Using Finnish panel data, we study how entrepreneurs differ from workers in education and income dynamics. We find that … workers have higher median income in all educational groups. Without additional controls, entrepreneurs have higher average … switch from entrepreneurship to workers, while education does not explain, in a statistically significant level, switching …
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This paper uses an oligopoly model with heterogeneous firms to examine how an industry adjusts to rising import competition. The model predicts that in the short run the least efficient firms in the industry become inactive, surviving firms face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the...
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We investigate whether the costs of job displacement differ between blue collar and white collar workers. In the short … run earnings and employment losses are substantial for both groups but stronger for white collar workers. In the long run …, there are only weak effects for blue collar workers but strong and persistent effects for white collars. This is consistent …
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Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and non-profit sector as well as in …
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Increased pressure for labour market flexibility and increasing demand over workers' performance have fostered the idea … workers, as well as between countries. Given population heterogeneity in responses to mental health questions, we implement a …
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useful analysis for studying the extent to which immigrants and low-skilled native workers are direct competitors in the …)amenities; ii) Catalan-born workers might be in direct competition with EU15 immigrants, while non-Catalan Spanish workers might be …
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In monopsony models of the labour market either a minimum wage or an employment subsidy financed by a lump sum tax on profits can achieve the efficient level of employment and output. Incorporating working conditions into a monopsony model where higher wages raise firm labour supply, but less...
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This paper presents a capability-augmented model of on the job search, in which sweatshop conditions stifle the capability of the working poor to search for a job while on the job. The augmented setting unveils a sweatshop equilibrium in an otherwise archetypal Burdett-Mortensen economy, and...
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, adverse workplace conditions and HRM environments. We find evidence that workers in hazardous workplace conditions are indeed … delegation to workers by management. As such, our evidence lends support to those who advocate the use of HIWPs for those firms … conditions directly or mitigates their effects on voluntary turnover through HIWPs, workers exposed to adverse workplace …
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