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for median weekly earnings growth into the part associated with the wage growth ofpersons employed at the beginning and … end of the period (the wage growth effect) and the part associated withchanges in the composition of earners (the … tight job switchers get high wage increases,making them account for half of the variation in median weekly earnings growth …
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: by offering a generous wage and by giving attention. Contrary to the traditional gift-exchange hypothesis, we show that … than egoistic managers do. In such equilibria, a low wage signals to employees that the manager has something else to offer …
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Firms hiring fresh graduates face uncertainty on the future productivity of workers. Theory suggests that starting wages reflect this, with lower pay for greater uncertainty. We use the dispersion of exam grades within a field of education as an indicator of the unobserved heterogeneity that...
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spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on … control over the profitable employment of their human capital than wage employees. …
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In a corporatist country, of which the Netherlands is an example, wages should not be distinguished by union membership status, but by the bargaining regime. Four bargaining regimes can be distinguished: (i) company level bargaining, (ii) industry level bargaining, (iii) mandatory extension of...
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relatively general. Applying human capital theory, we expect higher wage growth for full-time educated auditors than for dual …
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We investigate the relationship between exporting, importing, and wage premia using a richmatched employer … set of worker- and firm-levelobservable and unobservable characteristics to the wage gap, and (ii) by controlling for … firm size and sales are, todifferent extents, important components of the wage gap both for exporters and importers …
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the literature by examiningthe differences in the average (log) earnings of Hindu and Muslim wage earners in India …
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We compare the returns to education (RTE) for entrepreneurs and employees, based on 19waves of the NLSY database. By using instrumental variable techniques (IV) and takingaccount of selectivity, we find that the RTE are significantly higher for entrepreneurs than foremployees (18.3 percent and...
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This paper examines the incidence and wage effects of over-skilling within the Australianlabour market. It finds that …
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