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Immigration and the Earnings of Young Native Workers

Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

native insiders and their employers. The results show no negative impact of foreign labour on young natives' earnings levels … either in a regional or sectoral respect and at the firm level. The results for earnings growth in the period 1988--91 are …

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Earnings and Seniority in Japan. A Re-appraisal of the Existing Evidence and a Comparison with the UK

Ariga, Kenn; Brunello, Giorgio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

Standard estimates of earnings profiles ignore the fact that, with unobserved heterogeneity, cross-section evidence … need not reflect the `true' relationship between earnings and tenure. In this paper we argue that the observation of the … earnings growth. We apply this simple idea to Japanese and UK data. We find that tenure effects on earnings are positive but …

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Income Variance Dynamics and Heterogeneity

Meghir, Costas; Pistaferri, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

is related to the measure of risk emphasized by the theory. We first discriminate amongst various models of earnings …-specific differences in the stochastic process for earnings and for measurement error. The conditional variance of the income shocks is …

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Earnings, Unemployment, And Housing: Evidence From A Panel Of British Regions

Cameron, Gavin; Muellbauer, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

This paper models regional earnings and unemployment in the ten regions of Great Britain between 1972 and 1995, paying … earnings of men in non-manual, or women in full-time, employment and find a positive effect for women in part-time employment …

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Inequality of Earnings

Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the US over the …

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Birth Order and Sibship Sex Composition as Instruments in the Study of Education and Earnings

Gary-Bobo, Robert J.; Picard, Natalie; Prieto, Ana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper presents an empirical study of birth-order and sibship sex-composition effects on educational achievement, and uses these variables as instruments to estimate returns to education, with the help of a rich set of individual data. Our sample includes more than 12,000 men and 10,000...

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Education Policy Reform and the Return to Schooling from Instrumental Variables

Denny, Kevin; Harmon, Colm - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

This paper exploits an unusual policy reform that had the effect of reducing the direct cost of schooling in Ireland in the late 1960’s. This gave rise to an increased level of schooling but with effects that vary substantially across family background. This interaction of educational reform...

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Francs or Ranks? Earnings Mobility in France, 1967-1999

Buchinsky, Mosche; Fields, Gary S; Fougère, Denis; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper uses a new data set drawn from official earnings records kept by the French national statistical agency …

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Seniority, Earnings and Unions

Booth, Alison L; Frank, Jeff - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

This paper uses a new data source to investigate whether wages rise more with seniority in unionized or non-unionized workplaces. The data distinguish workers who are covered by incremental wage scales with automatic progression by seniority. For union workers with seniority scales, the union...

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Coverage by Incremental Scales

Booth, Alison L; Frank, Jeff - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

This paper uses the British Household Panel Survey to investigate when seniority is rewarded by automatic incremental scales. Scales are seen as an alternative to individual merit pay. They are likely to be used when individual productivity is hard to measure, when firms provide all workers with...

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