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Age-Specific Cyclical Effects in Job Reallocation and Labour Mobility

Gielen, Anne; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

We present an empirical analysis of job reallocation and labour mobility using matched worker-firm data for the Netherlands to investigate how firms adjust their workforce over the cycle. Our data cover the period 1993-2002. We find that cyclical adjustments of the workforce occur mainly through...

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Why Do Worker-Firm Matches Dissolve?

Gielen, Anne; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

separations in the Dutch labor market. From an analysis of matched worker-firm data we conclude that both quits and layoffs are … from being laid-off. Despite these wage renegotiations some inefficiency in separations remains. However, there is a clear …

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Employer Learning And The Returns To Schooling

Bauer, Thomas; Haisken-DeNew, John P - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

We examine the dynamic role of education and experience as determinants of wages. It is hypothesized that an employee's education is an important signal to the employer initially. Over time, the returns to schooling should decrease with labour market experience and increase with initially...

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Budget Uncertainty and Faculty Contracts: A Dynamic Framework for Comparative Analysis

Khovanskaya, Irina; Sonin, Konstantin; Yudkevich, Maria - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

We study hiring decisions made by competing universities in a dynamic framework, focusing on the structure of university finance. Universities with annual state-approved financing underinvest in high-quality faculty, while universities that receive a significant part of their annual income from...

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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

need not reflect the `true' relationship between earnings and tenure. In this paper we argue that the observation of the …. Under certain assumptions, this information can be used to construct an unbiased estimator of the effects of tenure on … 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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Wages and Worker Displacement in Germany

Burda, Michael C; Mertens, Antje - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

This paper investigates the effect of displacement on wages of socially insured German workers, who became unemployed in 1986. Because detailed information on job loss is unavailable, displacement status is predicted using a probit, estimated on the German Socioeconomic Panel. In contrast to US...

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The Sharing Hypothesis for Specific Human Capital

Stevens, Margaret - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

a positive relationship between wage and tenure. It is shown that the standard model does not in fact predict such a …

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Estimating the Wage Costs of Inter- and Intra-Sectoral Adjustment

Haynes, Michelle; Upward, Richard; Wright, Peter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

anecdotal. In this Paper we adopt the methodology of the micro-econometric labour literature to estimate the returns to tenure …

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Lifetime Jobs and Transient Jobs: Job Tenure in Britain 1975-91

Burgess, Simon; Rees, Hedley - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

We examine 17 years of a large cross-section to build up a picture of job tenure in Britain. We show that men (women … short tenures, and one at very long tenures. We find some change in the mean job tenure: a decrease in elapsed tenure of …

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Tenure Profiles and Efficient Separation in a Stochastic Productivity Model

Buhai, Ioan Sebastian; Teulings, Coen N - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper provides a new way of analyzing tenure profiles in wages, by modelling simultaneously the evolution of wages …

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