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The labor market in Iceland, 2000-2018

Ólafsdóttir, Katrín - In: IZA World of Labor (2020)

in work hours and a fall in nominal wages, while unemployment rose less than expected. In recent years there has been a …

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Union wage effects

Bryson, Alex - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

successfully to raise worker wages, income inequality would almost certainly be higher than it is. …

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Union wage effects

Bryson, Alex - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) July, pp. 1-10

successfully to raise worker wages, income inequality would almost certainly be higher than it is. …

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Retirement plan type and worker mobility

Flaherty Manchester, Colleen N. - In: IZA World of Labor (2019)

The relationship between retirement plan type and job mobility is more complex than typically considered. While differences in plan features and benefit structure may directly affect employees' mobility decisions (“incentive effect”), the type of plan offered may also affect the types of...

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The rise and fall of piecework

Hart, Robert A. - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)

A pieceworker receives a fixed rate for each unit (“piece”) produced or action performed. In part, the rate reflects a cost of monitoring output. A timeworker receives a fixed wage rate per hour that, in the short term, does not vary with output performance. From the 18th century up to the...

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Unemployment benefits and job match quality

Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

the quality of the work found by the unemployed. This quality rise, in terms of both wages and duration, can be achieved …

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Do immigrant workers depress the wages of native workers?

Peri, Giovanni - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that immigrants depress wages by competing with native workers … countries have found no effect on wages, on average, and only modest effects on wage differentials between more and less … educated immigrant and native workers. Native workers’ wages have been insulated by differences in skills, adjustments in local …

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Trade liberalization and gender inequality

Pieters, Janneke - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)

Women consistently work less in the labor market and earn lower wages than men. While economic empowerment of women is …

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Can immigrants ever earn as much as native workers?

Anderson, Kathryn H. - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)

Immigrants contribute to the economic development of the host country, but they earn less at entry and it takes many years for them to achieve parity of income. For some immigrant groups, the wage gap never closes. There is a wide variation across countries in the entry wage gap and the speed of...

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Trade liberalization and gender inequality

Pieters, Janneke - In: IZA World of Labor (2018)

Women consistently work less in the labor market and earn lower wages than men. While economic empowerment of women is …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984686