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: workplace skill segregation, gradual promotions, wage increases that have no relation with productivity and downward wage … considered in their theoretical and empirical models. -- envy ; interdependent preferences ; skill segregation ; wage dynamics … ; wage dispersion ; internal labor market ; recursive contracts …
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of reporting error and cover the entire population of workers, we find a substantial degree of downward nominal wage … flexibility in Ireland in the pre-crisis period. Furthermore, we observe a significant change in wage dynamics since the crisis … began. It was only after the peak crisis period that pay freezes became a feature of the Irish wage change distribution. …
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high for immigrants than for natives. By using longitudinal social security data, I find that wage cyclicality is higher …
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-term or indefinite-term contracts. Indefinite-term contracts are associated with higher wage protection than fixed … that the monthly wage of native workers covered by fixed-term contracts decreases in response to immigration, while …
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Can the standard search-and-matching labor market model replicate the business cycle fluctuations of the job finding rate and the unemployment rate? In the odel, these fluctuations are driven by movements in productivity. This paper inestigates the sources of productivity fluctuations that are...
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‐finding rates. The proposed wage rule is consistent with empirical responses of wages to both anticipated and unanticipated …
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-trivial dispersion of firm sizes; when firms' production technologies exhibit decreasing returns to labor, it also generates wage …
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Wage developments and related policies that determine labor markets functioning and wage formation processes, are key … factors with central importance in EMU. Flexibility in labor markets functioning and wage-setting aiming to nominal and real … wage flexibility, has been the most important policy instrument remaining at national level for responsive national …
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This paper examines the impacts of the introduction of the UK National Minimum Wage (NMW) in 1999 and the introduction … of the UK National Living Wage (NLW) in 2016 in Northern Ireland (NI) on employment and hours. NI is the only part of the … other side of the border (i.e., Republic of Ireland). This discontinuity in minimum wage coverage enables a research design …
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