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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
1428 David Neumark
Olena Y. Nizalova
Minimum Wage Effects in the Longer Run
Exposure to minimum wages at young ages may lead to longer-run effects. Among the possible adverse longer-run effects are decreased labor market experience and accumulation of tenure, lower current ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2007, 42 (2), 435-452)
J22, J23, J38
1427 Timothy Dunne
Kenneth Troske
Technology Adoption and Workforce Skill in U.S. Manufacturing Plants
This paper examines the relationship between technology adoption and workforce skill in US manufacturing plants. Using information on the use and adoption of seven different information technologies, ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2005, 52 (3), 387-405)
J2, O3
1424 Gaëlle Pierre
Stefano Scarpetta
Employment Regulations through the Eyes of Employers: Do They Matter and How Do Firms Respond to Them?
In this paper, we present evidence on how employers perceive labor regulations and react when these are perceived to constrain the operation of their firm. The paper draws from harmonized surveys of ...
(revised version published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2013, 2:15)
J23, J65, K31
1423 Dirk Sliwka
On the Notion of Responsibility in Organizations
We derive a natural definition of responsibility in a formal model where employees care for their career prospects: A superior holds a subordinate responsible for a task, when she announces her ...
(published in: Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2006, 22(2), 523-547)
D23, M12
1422 Simon Commander
Rupa Chanda
Mari Kangasniemi
L. Alan Winters
Must Skilled Migration Be a Brain Drain? Evidence from the Indian Software Industry
We provide a first empirical attempt at understanding the scale and type of skilled migration from the Indian software sector and the consequences for firms experiencing loss of skilled workers. ...
(published in: World Economy, 2008, 31 (2), 187-211)
J31, J61
1421 David Card
Sara de la Rica
The Effect of Firm-Level Contracts on the Structure of Wages: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
In Spain, as in several other European countries, sectoral bargaining agreements are automatically extended to cover all firms in an industry. Employers and employees can also negotiate ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2006, 59 (4), 573-592)
J31, J51
1420 Hilmar Schneider
Arne Uhlendorff
The Transition from Welfare to Work and the Role of Potential Labor Income
It is often argued that the high level of welfare claims in Germany causes little incentive for workers with low productivity to seek for a job. We examine the influence of the ratio ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Social Sciences Studies, 2005, 125 (1), 51-61)
I38, J64, C41
1419 Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
Language Skills and Immigrant Adjustment: What Immigration Policy Can Do!
This study provides an account of the dynamics of the dominant language adjustment process among immigrants in Australia using the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia, which comprises ...
(published in: Deborah Cobb-Clark and Siew-Ean Khoo (eds.), Public Policy and Immigrant Settlement, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006, 121-148)
F22, J61, J15, J24
1418 Michael Rosholm
Michael Svarer
Bo Hammer
A Danish Profiling System
We describe the statistical model used for profiling new unemployed workers in Denmark. When a worker – during his or her first six months in unemployment – enters the employment office for the ...
(published in: Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift (Danish Economic Journal), 2006, 144 (2), 209-229 )
J64, J68
1417 Gary Charness
Peter J. Kuhn
Do Co-Workers’ Wages Matter? Theory and Evidence on Wage Secrecy, Wage Compression and Effort
We study worker and firm behavior in an environment where worker effort could depend on co-workers’ wages. Theoretically, we show that an increase in workers’ ‘concerns’ with coworkers’ wages ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2007, 25 (4), 693-723)
C92, J33, M12, M52
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