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How many immigrants with less than university education, for a given immigration quota, maximise economic output? The answer is zero in the canonical model of the labour market, where the marginal product of a university-educated immigrant is always higher. We build an alternative model in which...
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Consider a labour market with heterogeneous workers. Firms recruit workers by fixing a hiring standard and a wage offer simultaneously. A more demanding hiring standard necessitates a better wage offer in order to attract enough qualified applicants. As a result, an efficiency wage effect is...
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. Moreover, it is shown that the neglect of endogenous but not observable behavior in the empirical literature on labor matching …
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In oligopsonistic labour markets, firms have some market power, and a wedge is created between wages and marginal product. When oligopsonistic firms' production technology requires generally trained workers, firms may therefore receive part of the returns to general training and be willing to...
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While economic studies often assume that labor markets are in equilibrium, there may be specialized labor markets that …
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of labor demand, nor the wage of permanent workers, assumed to be exogenous. This is the main difference with the more …
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This paper describes IZAΨMOD, the policy microsimulation model of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). The model …, public transfers. Secondly, behavioral labor supply responses are estimated. The third component distinguishes our model from … most other microsimulation tools. A demand module takes into account possible restrictions of labor demand and identifies …
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In this paper we conduct a theoretical analysis of the implications of a union which can exploit the existence of firm labour adjustment costs. We consider a model involving a large number of identical firms facing a single, economy-wide union. We solve (i) for the Markov perfect equilibria with...
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price. Firms adjust wages flexibly in response to variations in labor demand. The resulting theory of wage adjustment is …We present a new theory of wage adjustment, based on worker loss aversion. In line with prospect theory, the workers … wage increases and thus firms face an upward-sloping labor supply curve that is convexly kinked at the workers' reference …
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substitution and complementarity relationships between subsidized and non-subsidized labor demand. We apply an instrumental …
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