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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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Wage effects of labor market entry via temporary work agency employment : evidence for German apprenticeship graduates : conference paper
Buch, Tanja; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2013
In light of the remarkable number of young people who pass through a period of temp work at the beginning of their career the question arises whether labor market entry via temporary work agency (TWA) employment has any (persistent) effects on labor market outcomes. We investigate this issue...
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Can immigrants ever earn as much as native workers? : immigrants initially earn less than natives; the wage gap falls over time, but for many immigrant groups it never closes
Anderson, Kathryn H. - 2015
Immigrants contribute to the economic development of the host country, but they earn less at entry and it takes many years for them to achieve parity of income. For some immigrant groups, the wage gap never closes. There is a wide variation across countries in the entry wage gap and the speed of...
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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 …
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Biased expectations and labor market outcomes : evidence from German survey data and implications for the East-West wage gap
Balleer, Almut; Duernecker, Georg; Forstner, Susanne; … - 2023
expectations and wages, and a significantly positive relationship between optimistic bias in job finding expectations and … search and matching model of the labor market. Removing the biases could substantially increase wages and expected lifetime …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014247564
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Biased expectations and labor market outcomes : evidence from German survey data and implications for the East-West wage gap
Balleer, Almut; Duernecker, Georg; Forstner, Susanne; … - 2024
expectations and wages, and a significantly positive relationship between optimistic bias in job finding expectations and … search and matching model of the labor market. Removing the biases could substantially increase wages and expected lifetime …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014466945
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On the distributional effects of minimum wages : a note
Sell, Friedrich L.; Öllinger, Michael - 2017
In this note, we recall that unions traditionally pursue a policy of pushing higher average wages and, at the same time … show that minimum wages are capable of serving both of the above-mentioned goals of unions and also help increase the … makers to pursue a policy of minimum wages: both the average wage rate can be increased and the dispersion of wages be …
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Three essays in labor economics and economics of aging
Nizalova, Olena - 2006
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The Frisch Elasticity in Labor Markets with High Job Turnover
Céspedes Reynaga, Nikita - 2012
employed labor force has formal and stable jobs, we perform a fixed effects estimation as proposed by MaCurdy (1981) with a … instrumental variable for wages. We use Peruvian data from the Permanent Employment Survey of Lima. We find that neglecting wage … Frisch elasticity. We estimate Frisch elasticity at around 0.38, which indicates fairly adjustable wages and little reaction …
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Health shocks, human capital, and labor market outcomes
Parro, Francisco; Pohl, R. Vincent - 2018
Health, human capital, and labor market outcomes are linked though complex connections that are not fully understood. We explore these links by estimating a flexible yet tractable dynamic model of human capital accumulation in the presence of health shocks using administrative data from Chile....
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