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disparities across male and female occupations are due to gender devaluation. …
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This paper considers training, mobility decisions and wages together to test for the specificity of human capital … contained in continuing training courses. We empirically analyse the relationship between training, mobility and wages in two … ways. First, we examine the correlation between training and mobility. In a second step, we consider wage effects of …
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This paper uses panel data from 1989 to 1995 on blue-collar workers in Finnish manufacturing industries and their establishments to assess the extent to which hours of work are affected by individual or establishment characteristics - observed as well as unobserved. We argue that recent research...
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This paper studies the relationship between employment and wage structures in West Germany based on the IAB employment … evolution of relative employment measures, we estimate elasticities of substitution between employees in three different skill … groups and between those of different age, taking account of the endogeneity of wages and employment. Compared to estimates …
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In this study we assess the relationship between father and son earnings among (West) German Workers. To reduce the lifecycle and attenuation bias a novel sampling procedure is developed and applied to the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984-2006. Our preferred point estimate indicates that...
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Job mobility and employment durations can be explained by different theoretical approaches, such as job matching or … durations in the employment spell. Standard empirical techniques, such as hazard rate analysis, cannot deal with this problem …. In this paper, we apply censored quantile regression techniques to estimate employment durations of male workers in …
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This paper describes the geographical location and internal mobility of the Mâori ethnic group in New Zealand between … particular geographical locations. We compare the mobility of Mâori in particular locations to the mobility of similar Europeans … impediment to mobility. …
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in mobility, whereas only in three countries the increase in mobility is determined by the decrease in inequality. …
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-national differences in the dynamic structure of earnings: in permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility. Based on … compute earnings mobility. The predicted components together with the institutional OECD data are used in a non-linear least … squares setting to estimate the relationship between permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility, and …
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what extent does earnings mobility work to equalize/disequalize longerterm earnings relative to cross-sectional inequality … and how does it differ across the EU? Our basic assumption is that mobility measured over a horizon of 8 years is a good … proxy for lifetime mobility. We used the Shorrocks (1978) and the Fields (2008) index. Moreover, we explored the impact of …
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