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Skills, Workforce Characteristics and Firm-Level Productivity : Evidence from the Matched Abi/Employer Skills Survey
Galindo-Rueda, Fernando; Haskel, Jonathan - 2021
as part-time status and gender on both productivity and wages in English firms. We also investigate how productivity … returns follows from part-timers, who tend to work for firms that pay too low wages for the observed productivity differences …. Second, we study the effect of local skills on productivity controlling for skills at the firm. We find a positive and robust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318622
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Disability and skill mismatch
Jones, Melanie K.; Sloane, Peter J. - 2009
This paper integrates two strands of literature on overskilling and disability using the 2004 British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS). It finds that the disabled are significantly more likely to be mismatched in the labour market, to suffer from a pay penalty and to have lower job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269604
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Disability and Skill Mismatch
Jones, Melanie K. - 2009
This paper integrates two strands of literature on overskilling and disability using the 2004 British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS). It finds that the disabled are significantly more likely to be mismatched in the labour market, to suffer from a pay penalty and to have lower job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155565
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Disability and Skill Mismatch
Jones, Melanie K.; Sloane, Peter J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper integrates two strands of literature on overskilling and disability using the 2004 British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS). It finds that the disabled are significantly more likely to be mismatched in the labour market, to suffer from a pay penalty and to have lower job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565209
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How the Human Capital Model Explains Why the Gender Wage Gap Narrowed
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2004
female wages rose almost unabated from 1890 to the early-1990s in the United States (with the exception of about 1940 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261859
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The Impact of Forced Displacement on Host Communities. A Review of the Empirical Literature in Economics
Verme, Paolo; Schuettler, Kirsten - 2020
to employment, wages, prices and household well-being. The meta-analysis finds that most results on employment and wages … are non-significant. When significant, decreases in employment and wages are more likely to occur than increases with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012236860
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Labor Market Segmentation and the Earnings of German Guestworkers
Constant, Amelie F.; Massey, Douglas - 2021
separate effects of occupational segmentation and discrimination in the allocation of occupations and wages we conceptualize …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319934
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The impact of forced displacement on host communities : a review of the empirical literature in economics
Verme, Paolo; Schuettler, Kirsten - 2020
to employment, wages, prices and household well-being. The meta-analysis finds that most results on employment and wages … are non-significant. When significant, decreases in employment and wages are more likely to occur than increases with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239323
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The role of labor market in explaining growth and inequality in income : the Philippines’ case
Son, Hyun H. - In: Philippine Review of Economics 45 (2008) 1, pp. 69-92
income and labor market performances in terms of labor force participation, employment, work hours, and productivity. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008677456
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Overeducation and Ethnic Minorities in Britain
Battu, Harminder; Sloane, Peter J. - 2021
This study examines the utilisation of education across ethnic minorities in the UK. In particular, we examine the incidence of mismatch between educational qualifications and occupational attainment, the determinants of any mismatch and the consequences for earnings and other labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320171