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Wage divergence and unemployment : the impact of wage setting power and training costs
Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - In: Schmollers Jahrbuch : journal of contextual economics 126 (2006) 1, pp. 1-19
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Wage divergence and unemployment : the impact of insider power and training costs
Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - 2000
The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market … has a low skill wage mark-up and a high, mainly unskilled unemployment rate. This paper adds an innovative labour supply … mark-up stronger than in Germany in the wake of skill-biased technological change. The reason is that the unskilled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444759
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Wage divergence and unemployment : the impact of insider power and training costs
Muysken, Joan - 2000
The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market … has a low skill wage mark-up and a high, mainly unskilled unemployment rate. This paper adds an innovative labour supply … mark-up stronger than in Germany in the wake of skill-biased technological change. The reason is that the unskilled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428334
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Wage Divergence and Unemployment : The Impact of Insider Power and Training Costs
Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - 2003
The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market … has a low skill wage mark-up and a high, mainly unskilled unemployment rate. This paper adds an innovative labour supply … mark-up stronger than in Germany in the wake of skill-biased technological change. The reason is that the unskilled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014090451
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Technology and labor regulations : theory and evidence
Alesina, Alberto; Battisti, Michele; Zeira, Joseph - In: Journal of economic growth 23 (2018) 1, pp. 41-78
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Are active labour market policies effective in activating and integrating low-skilled individuals? : an international comparison
Escudero, Verónica - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011302494
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Skilled or Unskilled, But Still Unaware of it : How Perceptions of Difficulty Drive Miscalibration in Relative Comparisons
Burson, Katherine Alicia; Larrick, Richard P.; Klayman, … - 2006
People are inaccurate judges of how their abilities compare to others'. Kruger and Dunning (1999; 2002) argue that most inaccuracy is attributable to unskilled performers' lack of metacognitive skill to evaluate their performance. They overestimate their standing, whereas skilled performers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014058357
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Taxes and Market Hours : The Role of Gender and Skill
Duval-Hernández, Robert - 2017
Cross-country differences of market hours in 17 OECD countries are mainly due to the hours of women, especially low-skilled women. This paper develops a model to account for the gender-skill differences in market hours across countries. The model explains a substantial fraction of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947137
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The labour supply of low-skilled - incentives in the unemployment insurance systems : a comparative description based on Nordic countries
Bolvig, Iben (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003735887