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Cohort size effects on wages, working status, and work time
Okoampah, Sarah - 2016
This paper estimates the effects of cohort size on wages, employment and work time for workers in Germany. The … peak of the baby boom earn at least 5.3% lower wages than comparable workers born during the subsequent baby bust. Highly … specialized females born into large cohorts earn 2.5% lower wages than their counterparts from small cohorts. Employment effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011520610
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Do immigrant workers depress the wages of native workers? : short-term wage effects of immigrants are close to zero : and in the long term immigrants can boost productivity and wag...
Peri, Giovanni - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417057
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Imperfect Information, On-the-Job Training, and the Employer Size-Wage Puzzle : Theory and Evidence
Feng, Shuaizhang - 2010
This paper develops a two-period labor market model with imperfect information and on-the-job training, and uses data from National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Cohorts (NLSY79) to test its predictions. We find that training does not explain the positive relationship between employer size...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141723
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How much does a year off cost? : estimating the wage effects of employment breaks and part-time periods
Beblo, Miriam; Wolf, Elke - 2000
-time employment spells. Estimation results for German women suggest that deviations from full-time employment are associated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445624
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How much does a year off cost? : estimating the wage effects of employment breaks and part-time periods
Beblo, Miriam - 2000
-time employment spells. Estimation results for German women suggest that deviations from full-time employment are associated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428383
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Do labour market conditions shape immigrant-native gaps in employment outcomes? : a comparison of 19 European countries
Markaki, Yvonni - 2014
This article draws from different theoretical and empirical literatures to analyse the role of socioeconomic and regulatory conditions on immigrant-native gaps across four outcomes; unemployment, monthly earnings, underemployment, and precarious contracts. The empirical results suggest that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010439678
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The US labor market in 2030 : a scenario based on current trends in supply and demand
Edwards, Rebecca; Lange, Fabian - 2013
Three fundamental forces have shaped labor markets over the last 50 years: the secular increase in the returns to education, educational upgrading, and the integration of large numbers of women into the workforce. We modify the Katz and Murphy (1992) framework to predict the structure of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010228790
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Earnings dynamics and labor market reforms : the Italian case
Hoffmann, Eran B.; Malacrino, Davide; Pistaferri, Luigi - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 4, pp. 1637-1667
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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The returns to education over time and the effect of COVID-19
Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Rivera-Olvera, Angelica - 2024
This paper examines the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the returns to education in the United States. Using data from the Current Population Survey 2011-2022, the analysis reveals that, after a period of decline, returns to education increased significantly because of COVID, particularly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015064494
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The returns to education over time and the effect of COVID-19
Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Rivera-Olvera, Angelica - 2024
This paper examines the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the returns to education in the United States. Using data from the Current Population Survey 2011-2022, the analysis reveals that, after a period of decline, returns to education increased significantly because of COVID, particularly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015073267