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effects of the use of networks on wages. Users of networks tend to be older, to have migrated longer ago and to be less … impact of network use on wages. Using job contacts brings open access to urban employment, but at the cost of markedly lower … wages. …
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effects of the use of networks on wages. Users of networks tend to be older, to have migrated longer ago and to be less … impact of network use on wages. Using job contacts brings open access to urban employment, but at the cost of markedly lower … wages …
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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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employer size have been studied. A labour market in which wages depend on employer size means the characteristics of the same … for the hotel industry. Using data from the research project "Mismatch in education, productivity and wages in the … size and wages in the hotel industry. The second aim was to account for wage premia earned by workers employed by larger …
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In Westdeutschland ging die durchschnittliche Betriebsgroße in den 1990er Jahren zurück und begann in den späten 2000er Jahren wieder zu steigen, während die Betriebsgrößenlohnprämie umgekehrt dazu verlief. In diesem Papier zeigen wir, dass diese beiden Entwicklungen miteinander...
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For a large set of countries, we document how the labor earnings inequality varies with GDP per capita. As countries get richer, the mean-to-median ratio and the Gini coefficient decline. Yet, this decline masks divergent patterns: while inequality at the top of the earnings distribution falls,...
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functions regressions. Dependent variables are logarithms of the mean sector wages considered for each case. Some statistical …
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This paper summarizes statistics on the key aspects of the distribution of earnings levels and earnings changes using administrative (social security) data from Italy between 1985 and 2016. During the time covered by our data, earnings inequality and earnings volatility increased, while earnings...
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Social networks, or “job-referral” networks, can help make labor markets become more efficient. Outside the firm, they help workers obtain employment after displacement and secure higher-paying jobs. They can also match highly-skilled workers to more productive employment. Inside the firm,...
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An important underlying determinant of wage discrimination, as well as the gender wage gap is the way the labor market rewards individual physical attractiveness. This article surveys the extensive empirical literature of the effect of physical attractiveness on labor market outcomes. Particular...
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