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Peer Effects in the Workplace
Cornelissen, Thomas; Dustmann, Christian; Schönberg, Uta - CESifo - 2013
workers, firms, and occupations with a focus on peer effects in wages rather than productivity. Our estimation strategy …—which links the average permanent productivity of workers’ peers to their wages— circumvents the reflection problem and accounts … find larger peer effects, about half the size of those identified in similar studies on productivity. …
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Multitasking and Wages
Görlich, Dennis; Snower, Dennis - CESifo - 2013
This paper sheds light on how changes in the organization of work can help to understand increasing wage inequality. We present a theoretical model in which workers with a wider span of competence (higher level of multitasking) earn a wage premium. Since abilities and opportunities to expand the...
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Why Do We Ignore the Risk in Schooling Decisions?
Hartog, Joop; Diaz-Serrano, Luis - CESifo - 2014
While uncertainty abounds in almost any decision on investment in schooling, it is mostly ignored in research and virtually absent in labour economics text books. This paper documents the scope for risk, discusses the tough disentanglement of heterogeneity and risk, surveys the analytical...
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General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes over the Life-Cycle
Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger; Zhang, Lei - CESifo - 2011
Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test...
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Work and Wage Dynamics around Childbirth
Ejrnæs, Mette; Kunze, Astrid - CESifo - 2012
This study investigates how the first childbirth affects the wage processes of highly attached women. We estimate a flexible fixed effects wage regression model extended with post-birth fixed effects by the control function approach. Register data on West Germany are used and we exploit the...
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Returns to Citizenship? Evidence from Germany's Recent Immigration Reforms
Gathmann, Christina; Keller, Nicolas - CESifo - 2014
Immigrants in many countries have lower employment rates and lower earnings than natives. We study whether a more liberal access to citizenship improves the economic integration of immigrants. Our analysis relies on two major immigration reforms in Germany, a country with a weak record of...
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The East German Wage Structure after Transition
Orlowski, Robert; Riphahn, Regina T. - CESifo - 2008
We extend the literature on transition economies' wage structures by investigating the returns to tenure and experience. This study applies recent panel data and estimation approaches that control for hitherto neglected biases. We compare the life cycle structure in East and West German wages...
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Measuring the Consumption Value of Higher Education
Alstadsæter, Annette - CESifo - 2009
This paper argues that the consumption value of education is an important motivation for the educational choice. While controlling for ability, we document that individuals are willing to forego substantial future wage returns in order to acquire a particular type of higher education. We...
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The Consumption Value of Higher Education
Alstadsæter, Annette; Sievertsen, Hans Henrik - CESifo - 2009
The consumption value of higher education is an important factor behind the individual’s educational choice. We provide a comprehensive literature survey, and define the consumption value as the private, intended, non-pecuniary return to higher education. We provide new empirical evidence for...
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Size Matters! Body Height and Labor Market Discrimination: A Cross-European Analysis
Cinnirella, Francesco; Winter, Joachim - CESifo - 2009
Taller workers earn on average higher salaries. Recent research has proposed cognitive abilities and social skills as explanations for the height-wage premium. Another possible mechanism, employer discrimination, has found little support. In this paper, we provide some evidence in favor of the...
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