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We examine the dynamic role of education and experience as determinants of wages. It is hypothesized that an employee … market experience and increase with initially unobserved ability, since the employer gradually obtains better information on …
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estimating the returns to education and experience. Recent analyses of education and wages have built on this foundation and have … 1950s/early 1960s greatly expanded the research on education and income and shifted the focus to wages. The human capital …
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This paper studies the effect of parenthood timing on future wages. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel … (SOEP), we employ an instrumental variable approach to identify the causal effect of delaying parenthood on wages of mothers … and fathers. Consistent with previous studies, we provide evidence for a positive delaying effect on wages. We further …
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This paper explores the evolution of the average wage of employees over the life-cycle of a manufacturing plant. The average wage starts out low for a new plant and increases along with labor productivity as the plant ages. As a plant approaches exit, its average wage falls, but more slowly than...
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Greece’s labour market entered the COVID-19 shock following several years of sustained employment growth and with wages …
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indicate that firm agreements exert a stronger impact on wages than on productivity, so that on average profitability is … mainly found to raise wages beyond labour productivity when the rents to be shared between workers and firms are relatively … and wages – without being detrimental to firms’ gross profits. …
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of white-collar workers’ wages with respect to the local college share is around 0.1, while we find no evidence of a … positive effect of local human capital on blue-collar workers’ wages. …
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The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997-2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of low-skill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labor market outcomes. This is done...
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Using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP), the study analyzes the direct and indirect effects of parental background on employees’ earnings. To examine indirect effects we estimate the determinants of the employees’ years of schooling. In a second step, we run wage regressions...
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We use the labor market for doctorates in the biomedical sciences, where career dislocation is common, as a case study of skill-task mismatch and its consequences. Using longitudinal, worker-level data on biomedical doctorates, we investigate mismatch as an explanation for the negative pecuniary...
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