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Work and Wage Dynamics around Childbirth

Ejrnæs, Mette; Kunze, Astrid - CESifo - 2012

identification. On the return to work after the birth, mothers’ wages drop by 3 to 5.7 per cent per year of leave. We find negative …

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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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The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement

Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2010

An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...

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Mind the Gap? Estimating the Effects of Postponing Higher Education

Holmlund, Bertil; Liu, Qian; Skans, Oskar Nordström - CESifo - 2006

This paper estimates the effects on earnings of “gap years” between high school and university enrollment. The effect is estimated by means of standard earnings functions augmented to account for gap years and a rich set of control variables using administrative Swedish data. We find that...

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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 … for the endogenous sorting of workers into peer groups and firms. On average, we find only small peer effects in wages. We …

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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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Information Asymmetry, Education Signals and the Case of Ethnic and Native Germans

Hornig, Stephan O.; Rottmann, Horst; Wapler, Rüdiger - CESifo - 2009

This paper analyses the effects of education signals for Ethnic Germans and Germans without a migration background (“Native Germans”). We base our analysis on a sorting model with productivity enhancing effects of education. We compare whether the signalling value differs between the...

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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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The East German Wage Structure after Transition

Orlowski, Robert; Riphahn, Regina T. - CESifo - 2008

life cycle structure in East and West German wages for fulltime employed men in the private sector. The patterns in the …

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