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 …

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 …

dynamics vis-à-vis the formal sector. Some works have been done in this field using household surveys, but they only consider … addressing heterogeneity issues at three different levels: the worker, the job (wage employment vs. selfemployment) and the …

characteristics of employment and unemployment in the country. This study, which presents the principal results of the survey, helps …, discrimination against women, inefficiency of placement services for the unemployed, generalisation of under-employment, the place of …

heterogeneity at three different levels: the worker, the job (wage employment vs. self-employment) and the earnings distribution. We …

detailed picture of the main characteristics of employment and unemployment in the country. This study, which presents the …, generalisation of under-employment, the place of the informal sector, etc.), the study opens up new possibilities for defining …

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 …