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Do startups provide employment opportunities for disadvantaged workers?

Fackler, Daniel; Fuchs, Michaela; Hölscher, Lisa; … - 2018

. However, an analysis of entry wages reveals that disadvantageous worker characteristics come along with higher wage penalties …

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Do startups provide employment opportunities for disadvantaged workers?

Fackler, Daniel; Fuchs, Michaela; Hölscher, Lisa; … - 2018

. However, an analysis of entry wages reveals that disadvantageous worker characteristics come along with higher wage penalties …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011868878

The institutional context of an empirical law: the wage curve under different regimes of collective bargaining

Blien, Uwe; Dauth, Wolfgang; Schank, Thorsten; … - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

wages with respect to unemployment postulated by Blanchflower and Oswald. In this regime, we also find that works councils … dampen the adjustment of wages to the regional unemployment situation. In the other regimes of plants that either do not make …

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Higher wages in exporting firms: self-selection, export effect, or both? First evidence from German linked employer-employee data

Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

While it is a stylized fact that exporting firms pay higher wages than non-exporting firms, the direction of the link … between exporting and wages is less clear. Using a rich set of German linked employer-employee panel data we follow over time … export, and that it does not increase in the following years. Higher wages in exporting firms are thus due to self …

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Paying more than necessary? The wage cushion in Germany

Jung, Sven; Schnabel, Claus - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

collective agreements pay wages above the level stipulated in the agreement, which gives rise to a wage cushion between the … levels of actual and contractual wages. Cross-sectional and fixed-effects estimations for the period 2001-2006 indicate that …

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Privatization, entry regulation and the decline of labor's share of GDP: a cross-country analysis of the network industries

Azmat, Ghazala; Manning, Alan; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

labor share, employment and wages respond to privatization and other regulatory changes. We exploit cross-country panel data …

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The impact of training on productivity and wages : evidence from British panel data

Dearden, Lorraine; Reed, Howard; Van Reenen, John - Department of Economic History, London School of … - 2005

It is standard in the literature on training to use wages as a sufficient statistic for productivity. But there are … many reasons why wages and productivity may diverge. This paper is part of a smaller literature on the effects of work … training, productivity and wages. Using a variety of econometric estimation techniques (including system GMM) we find that …

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The UK productivity and jobs puzzle: does the answer lie in labour market flexibility?

Pessoa, João Paulo; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

have occurred due to changes in factor prices: a large fall in real wages and increases in the cost of capital. In previous … recessions real wages did not fall, but reforms to union strength and welfare have made wages more sensitive to negative demand …

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Low-wage employment

Schnabel, Claus - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)

Low-wage employment has become an important feature of the labor market and a controversial topic for debate in many countries. How to interpret the prominence of low-paid jobs and whether they are beneficial to workers or society is currently an open question. The answer depends on whether...

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Exporting Firms Do Not Pay Higher Wages, Ceteris Paribus : First Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Wagner, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus; Schank, Thorsten - 2004

18 studies using data from 20 highly developed, developing, and less developed countries document that average wages in … exporting firms are higher than in non-exporting firms from the same industry and region. The existence of these so …

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