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The Returns to Cognitive Abilities and Personality Traits in Germany
Heineck, Guido; Anger, Silke - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
' wages only. Findings for personality traits are more heterogeneous. There however is a robust wage penalty for an external …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963791
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Biases in Estimates of the Smoking Wage Penalty
Anger, Silke; Kvasnicka, Michael - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
Empirical studies on the earnings effects of tobacco use have found significant wage penalties attached to smoking. We produce evidence that suggests that these estimates are significantly upward biased. The bias arises from a general failure in the literature to control for the past smoking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963866
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International Outsourcing and the Skill Structure of Labour Demand in the United Kingdom
Hijzen, Alexander; Görg, Holger; Hine, Robert C. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004
This paper investigates empirically the link between international outsourcing and the skill structure of labour demand in the United Kingdom. It is the first detailed study of this issue for the UK. Outsourcing is calculated using import-use matrices of input-output tables for manufacturing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963926
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The Gender Gap Reloaded: Are School Characteristics Linked to Labor Market Performance?
Konstantopoulos, Spyros; Constant, Amelie - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
while some school characteristics are positive and significant predictors of future wages for Whites, they are less so for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068670
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In Vino Pecunia?: The Association between Beverage-Specific Drinking Behavior and Wages
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Grabka, Markus M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
The positive association between moderate alcohol consumption and wages is well documented in the economic literature …-specific drinking behavior and wages. In our analysis, we disentangle the general wage effect of drinking into diverse effects for … different types of drinkers. Mincerian estimates reveal significant and positive relationships between wine drinkers and wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068709
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Firm Size, Wages and Unobserved Skills: Evidence from Dual Job Holdings in the UK
Muravyev, Alexander - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
The paper examines the labour quality explanation of the employer size-wage gap: larger firms pay higher wages because …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068788
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Winners and Losers: Fragmentation, Trade and Wages Revisited
Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003
Our paper investigates the link between international outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and … outsourcing has had a marked impact on wages. Distinguishing three skill categories we find evidence that outsourcing reduced the … real wage for workers in the lowest skill categories by up to 1.8% while it increased real wages for high-skilled workers …
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Raising Rivals' Fixed (Labor) Costs: The Deutsche Post Case
Heitzler, Sven; Wey, Christian - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
agreements generally binding. We show that minimum wages implemented by means of extension regulation are an effective deterrence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008498395
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Trick or Treat?: Maternal Involuntary Job Loss and Children's Non-cognitive Skills
Peter, Frauke H. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013
Negative effects of job loss on adults such as considerable fall in income have long been examined. If job loss has negative consequences for adults, it may spread to their children. But potential effects on children's non-cognitive skills and the related mechanisms have been less examined. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010729192
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Location Decisions in a Changing Labour Market Environment
Frank, Björn - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003
We study the location of various film-related services (such as camera rental, casting agencies or pyrotechnic services), the main determinant of interest being the human capital specificity. We show that firms which supply services with a lower firm specificity locate farther away from one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963761