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Reservation Wages and the Wage Flexibility Puzzle [PDF]
Review of Economics and Statistics, 2016 Abstract Using micro data for the UK and Germany, we provide novel evidence on the cyclical properties of reservation wages and estimate that wages and reservation wages are characterised by moderate and very similar degrees of cyclicality.
Felix Koenig +2 more
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Wage Dispersion and Decentralization of Wage Bargaining [PDF]
Journal of Labor Economics, 2009 This paper studies how decentralization of wage bargaining from sector to firm level influences wage levels and wage dispersion. We use a detailed panel data set covering a period of decentralization in the Danish labor market. The decentralization process provides exogenous variation in the individual worker's wage-setting system that facilitates ...
Dahl, Christian M. +2 more
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Work and Labor in Slow-Progressive Sectors of the Economy
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2013 In the late 1960s, William Baumol demonstrated that structurally unbalanced growth, with the associated cost disease phenomenon, can be expected to have some very particular effects on work and labor in slow-progressive sectors of the economy: performing
Matti Vuorensyrjä
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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2014 A main objective of European governments is to reduce the number of early retirees, either by reforming pension systems or promoting active aging in working life.
Tove Midtsundstad, Hanne Bogen
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Job Search With Legal and Illegal Workers: A Comparative Static Analysis
Economics and Business, 2020 This paper incorporates government immigration policy variables in a job search and match framework to examine its implication on labour market outcomes. The main assumption is that illegal workers can be penalized by receiving lower equilibrium wages or
Ogbeifun Lawrence
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How Much to Invest and What Degree to Get? Education As a Strategy on the Labour Market Scale
Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, 2023 When workers hear about a possible promotion, it is common for them to get training, and they can do so through education. However, there is the possibility that the worker needs to receive a salary according to the knowledge acquired in such training ...
Luis Antonio Andrade Rosas +1 more
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RESIDUAL WAGE DISPERSION WITH EFFICIENCY WAGES [PDF]
International Economic Review, 2018 AbstractThis article extends a classic on‐the‐job search model of homogeneous workers and firms by introducing a shirking problem. Workers choose their effort levels and search on the job. Firms elicit effort through wages and monitoring; an inverse relationship between wages and monitoring rates is derived.
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Labor market in the UK in digital era: The gender dimension
RUDN journal of Sociology, 2021 The article considers gender discrimination in the field of labor relations in the United Kingdom (UK) in the pre-covid period. In the past decades, the Western European countries have made the most significant progress in achieving gender equality in ...
E. A. Mosakova, K. Kizilova
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Forced Flexibility and Exploitation: Experiences of Migrant Workers in the Cleaning Industry
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2016 Globalization has resulted in structural changes in the labor markets over the last decades. These changes have weakened some of the economic and social dimensions of work.
Natalia Ollus
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Minimum wages and the wage distribution in Estonia [PDF]
Applied Economics, 2018 Abstract: This article studies how changes in the statutory minimum wage have affected the wage distribution in Estonia, a post-transition country with little collective bargaining and relatively l...
Ferraro, Simona +2 more
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