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Selective Schools
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This paper studies how schooling admission tests affect economic performance in an economy where individuals are endowed with both academic and non academic abilities and both abilities matter for labor productivity. We develop a simple model with selective government held schools, where individuals...
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EconStor
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English
Hiring Standards and Market Clearing
Author(s) :
Schlicht, Ekkehart
Description :
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 obtaine...
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EconStor
Language(s) :
English
The Effect of Employment Protection on Worker Effort: A Comparison of Absenteeism During and After Probation
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Employment protection systems are known to generate significant distortions in firms? hiring and firing decisions. We know much less about the impact of these regulations on worker effort. The goal of this paper is to fill in this gap and in particular to assess whether the provision of employment p...
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EconStor
Language(s) :
English
Lohndispersion und Arbeitslosigkeit: Neuere Ansätze in der Suchtheorie
Author(s) :
Garloff, Alfred
Description :
Aufbauend auf der Hypothese, dass Arbeitsmärkte durch unvollständige Information charakterisiert sind, werden in diesem Arbeitspapier neuere Entwicklungen innerhalb eines Zweiges informationsökonomischer Ansätze vorgestellt: der Suchtheorie. Dabei werden ausführlich insbesondere jene Ansätze vorgest...
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EconStor
Language(s) :
German
Firm training and wage rigidity
Author(s) :
Lechthaler, Wolfgang
Description :
Although wage rigidity is among the most prominent subjects in modern economics, its effects on wage compression and firm training have thus far not been considered. This paper is trying to bridge this gap by using a simple two period model which can still by analyzed analytically. I am able to show...
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EconStor
Language(s) :
English
Market power, dismissal threat and rent sharing: the role of insider and outsider forces in wage bargaining
Description :
One of the predictions of the insider-outsider theory is that wages will be higher in sectors (firms) with high labor adjustment costs/high turnover costs. This prediction is tested empirically in this study, using an insider-outsider model and a longitudinal panel of large firms in Portugal. The re...
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EconStor
Language(s) :
English
Exploring the causes of frictional wage dispersion
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Standard search models are unreliable for structural inference of the underlying sources of wage inequality because they are inconsistent with observed residual wage dispersion. We address this issue by modeling skill development and duration dependence in unemployment benefits in a random on the jo...
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EconStor
Language(s) :
English
The career costs of children
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This paper analyzes the life-cycle career costs associated with child rearing and decomposes their effects into unearned wages (as women drop out of the labor market), loss of human capital, and selection into more child-friendly occupations. We estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of fertility, occu...
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EconStor
Language(s) :
English
Estimating the income loss of disabled individuals: The case of Spain
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In this paper, we present both a theoretical and an empirical model in order to identify the effects of disability on wages. In the theoretical model we assume that the wage gap of a disabled worker depends on a permanent and a transitory productivity gap and the model predicts that the wage gap wil...
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EconStor
Language(s) :
English
Lohnspreizung und Arbeitslosigkeit : theoretische Erklärungsansätze und Stand empirischer Forschung
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Inhaltsverzeichnis: 1. Lohnspreizung - Ein gesellschaftspolitisches Problem 2. Theoretische Erklärungsansätze zur Lohnspreizung 2.1. Einfaches Arbeitsmarktmodell mit homogenen Arbeitsangebot 2.2. Einfaches Arbeitsmarktmodell mit heterogenen Arbeitsangebot 2.3. trade-off-Hypothese zwischen Arbeitslos...
Repository :
EconStor
Language(s) :
German