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Training, Mobility, and Wages: Specific Versus General Human Capital

Garloff, Alfred; Kuckulenz, Anja - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

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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Unemployment, Labor Market Transitions, and Residual Wage Dispersion

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Garloff, Alfred - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

It is commonplace in the debate on Germany?s labor market problems to argue that high unemployment and low wage dispersion are related. This paper analyses the relationship between unemployment and residual wage dispersion for individuals with comparable attributes. In the conventional...

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Descriptive Evidence on Labor Market Transitions and the Wage Structure in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Garloff, Alfred - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

distribution. This paper uses the IAB employment subsample to describe the empirics of labor market transitions and the wage … job?to?job transitions, age, and education on wage mobility. Based on our descriptive analysis, we conclude that indeed a …

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Is the Euro Working? The Euro and European Labour Markets

Silvia, Stephen - EconWPA - 2005

Now that four years have passed since the introduction of the euro as a commercial currency, it has become possible to assess many arguments made in the abstract during the 1990s about the implications of monetary union. This contribution does precisely that. In brief, the euro zone still falls...

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The role of technology in determining skilled employment: an economywide approach

Laplagne, Patrick; Marshall, Peter; Stone, Susan - EconWPA - 2001

workers. The paper shows technology has played the dominant role in changing employment patterns in Australia. The finding is … production has also promoted the employment of more highly skilled workers. …

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IMPORTING JOBS AND EXPORTING FIRMS? ON THE WAGE AND EMPLOYMENT IMPLICATIONS OF ITALY’S TRADE AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT FLOWS

Helg, Rodolfo; Faini, Riccardo; Falzoni, Anna M.; … - EconWPA - 2001

of the main stumbling blocks in Italy’s economy. Finally, we find that greater firm’s mobility may have weakened the …

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IMPORTING JOBS AND EXPORTING FIRMS? ON THE WAGE AND EMPLOYMENT IMPLICATIONS OF ITALY’S TRADE AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT FLOWS

Faini, Riccardo; Falzoni, Anna M.; Galeotti, Marzio; … - EconWPA - 2001

of the main stumbling blocks in Italy’s economy. Finally, we find that greater firm’s mobility may have weakened the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556481

Field of study, qualification mismatch, and wages: Does sorting matter?

Berlingieri, Francesco; Zierahn, Ulrich - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

Graduates from Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) are usually found to have higher wages and a lower risk of overqualification. However, it is unclear whether we can interpret the effect of STEM subjects on overqualification and wages in a causal way, since individuals...

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Evaluating the effect of tax deductions on training

Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - EconWPA - 2002

Due to a tax law implemented in 1998, Dutch employers can claim an extra tax deduction when they train employees aged 40 years or older. This causes a discontinuity in a firm's cost of training an employee. We exploit this discontinuity to identify two effects: the effect of the tax deduction on...

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Why do capital intensive companies pay higher wages?

Virén, Matti - EconWPA - 2005

An obvious answer to this question is the capital-skill complementarity hypothesis originally proposed by Zwi Griliches (1969). But the relatively poor performance of this hypothesis suggests that other explanations are needed. Here we consider the labour union behaviour in the wage bargaining...

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