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This paper provides the first available evidence on overeducation/overskilling based on AlmaLaurea data. We focus on jobs held 5 years after graduation by pre-reform graduates in 2005. Overeducation/overskilling are relatively high – at 11.4 and 8% – when compared to EU economies. Ceteris...
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There is considerable debate about the role of wage rigidity in explaining unemployment. Despite a large body of empirical work, no consensus has emerged on the extent of wage rigidity. Previous attempts to empirically examine wage rigidity have been hampered by small samples and measurement...
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through fostering faster re-employment …
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find that both labor demand and equilibrium wages become more rainfall sensitive when cultivators are offered rainfall … contract offered to agricultural laborers smoothes wages across rainfall states by inducing changes in labor supply. Policy …
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This paper analyses the role of Performance Related Pay (PRP) agreements on labour productivity and wages. Its main … wages allows us to ascertain that payments by results might be not only rent-sharing devices, but schemes that substantially …
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This paper investigates the behaviour of employers' monopsony power and workers' wages over the business cycle. Using … workers' entry wages are of similar magnitude as those predicted under monopsonistic wage setting, suggesting that monopsony …
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I examine the effect of English language proficiency on the occupational choices of childhood immigrants into the United States. In particular, I focus on the annual earnings and skills composition associated with immigrants' chosen occupations. Following Bleakley and Chin (2004; 2010), I use an...
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This review article examines the role of labor income risk in determining the value of a person's human capital. We draw on the existing literature to present a model that incorporates various types of shocks to earnings. Within this framework, we highlight the implications of different...
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We dissect the portion of stock price change of the fiscal year that is recognized in reported accounting earnings of the year. We call this portion earnings recognition timeliness (ERT). The emphasis in our dissection is on empirical identification of two fundamental precepts of financial...
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extensive adjustment of wages, and (iii) the aggregate employment rate.We use individual-specific data from the German Socio … individual labor supply function with non-employment as a possible outcome. Performing a thought experiment in which all offered … or paid wages are subject to an unanticipated temporary change, we can derive an analytical expression for the aggregate …
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