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higher wages. This evidence can be explained by increased mobility costs associated with higher expected risk of post …
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This paper deals with the effects of labour market institutions on labour market performance. We analyse as an indicator for the labour intensity of output growth the employment threshold (the minimum growth rate of output necessary to keep employment constant). We show for a sample of 17 OECD...
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Weather-related heat exposure has become a sanitary concern given the wide repercussions it has for health. Both physiological and epidemiological research show that the impact of heat on human health goes far beyond acute heat conditions such as potentially fatal heat strokes. Heat exacerbates...
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of notice is defined as the period an employer has to notify workers in advance of their up-coming dismissal. The wages …. Strong evidence is found that a longer 'dormant' term of notice leads to higher wages. In my sample, an additional month of … notice increases wages by three percent, ceteris paribus. …
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of notice is defined as the period an employer has to notify workers in advance of their upcoming dismissal. The wages …. Strong evidence is found that a longer 'dormant' term of notice leads to higher wages. In my sample, an additional month of … notice increases wages by three percent, ceteris paribus. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277213
. The study focuses on evaluating the impact of the contracting-out of these services on the wages and conditions of … savings for government, these resulted partly from a reduction in wages and benefits of former blue collar staff, despite the … best efforts of the Western Australian government to protect staff wages and benefits. The research makes an important …
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human capital may be heterogeneous and where firms may offer different combinations of entry level wages and firm specific … human capital development. We allow for the the possibility that wages are match specific and that workers move jobs as a …
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the labor market. Its impact on employment, wages and wealth depends crucially on the design of immigration policy …
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concerns on economic outcomes. We also review evidence from laboratory and field experiments examining the role of wages and … fairness on effort, derive predictions from our approach for entry-level wages and incumbent workers' wages, confront these …
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For nearly 50 years academics have been studying how labor markets affect crime. The initial interesting and important theoretical and empirical work generated substantial interest in studying crime among economists, in particular, and scholars in the social sciences more broadly. This...
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