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-skill occupations worsens the bargaining position of unions, which crucially depends on the occupational structure inside a firm. This …
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regulatory conditions on immigrant-native gaps across four outcomes; unemployment, monthly earnings, underemployment, and … unemployment and underemployment. A higher union density appears to suppress wage differences across some immigrant groups, rather …
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We study both the various consequences and the incentives of outsourcing. We argue thatthe wage elasticity of labour demand is increasing as a function of the share of outsourcing,which is importantly a result consistent with existing empirical research...
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workers is driven not by natives leaving unions, but by the different composition of turnover depending on the share of …
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workers is driven not by natives leaving unions, but by the different composition of turnover depending on the share of …
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This paper investigates the role that pre-immigration skills play in immigrants job-finding processes in Germany. We first show theoretically that the job-finding rate for the high-skilled varies depending on their search strategy: if they are prepared to look for both unskilled as well as...
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This paper examines the role of labor market frictions and moving costs in explaining the migration behavior of US … estimate a dynamic model of individual labor supply and migration decisions. The model incorporates a reduced-form search model … and allows for migration for non-market reasons. My estimates show that moving costs are substantial and that labor market …
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cohorts being associated with lower unemployment rates. A possible explanation is that firms react to an anticipated increase …
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cohorts being associated with lower unemployment rates. A possible explanation is that firms react to an anticipated increase …
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behaviour of trade unions? To approach these questions theoretical as well as empirical methods were used. The empirical methods …
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