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The Short- and Long-Term Career Effects of Graduating in a Recession: Hysteresis and Heterogeneity in the Market for College Graduates
Oreopoulos, Philip; Wachter, Till von; Heisz, Andrew - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper analyzes the long-term effects of graduating in a recession on earnings, job mobility, and employer characteristics for a large sample of Canadian college graduates using matched university-employer-employee data from 1982 to 1999. The results are used to assess the role of job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859543
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Temporary Help Agencies and theAdvancement Prospects of Low Earners
Andersson, Fredrik; Holzer, Harry J.; Lane, Julia - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
In this paper we use a very large matched database on firms and employees to analyze theuse of temporary agencies by low earners, and to estimate the impact of temp employmenton subsequent employment outcomes for these workers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861535
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Wage Structure and Labor Mobilityin the Netherlands 1999-2003
Borghans, Lex; Kriechel, Ben - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
In this paper we document the wage structure and labor mobility in the Netherlands in theperiod 1999-2003. We explain the importance of wage-setting institutions in the Netherlandsand the main actors. The analyses are based on administrative sources allowing forcomparisons between and within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862602
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Unobserved Individual and Firm Heterogeneity inWage and Tenure Functions: Evidence fromGerman Linked Employer-Employee Data
Cornelißen, Thomas; Hübler, Olaf - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We estimate wage and job tenure functions that include individual and firm effects capturingtime-invariant unobserved worker and firm heterogeneity using German linked employeremployeedata (LIAB data set)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863112
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Intergenerational Transmission ofLanguage Capital and Economic Outcomes
Casey, Teresa; Dustmann, Christian - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of language capital amongstimmigrants, and the effect of language deficiencies on the economic performance of secondgeneration immigrants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861653
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Overskilling, Job Insecurity and Career Mobility
McGuinness, Seamus; Wooden, Mark - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
-related skills and abilities are utilized in current employment - is atransitory phenomenon... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862564
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Performance Pay, Training and Labor Mobility
Gielen, Anne C. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Market imperfections may cause firms and workers to under-invest in specific training. Thispaper shows that profit sharing may be a suitable instrument to enhance specific traininginvestments, either by enhancing wage flexibility or by increasing the returns to training...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862579
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Exploring the Causes of Frictional Wage Dispersion
Tjaden, Volker; Wellschmied, Felix - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
Standard search models are unreliable for structural inference of the underlying sources ofwage inequality because they … dependence in unemploymentbenefits in a random on the job search model featuring two-sided heterogeneity. Generalhuman capital … and search on the job are the main drivers behind our model’s empiricalsuccess in replicating wage dispersion (residual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486869
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The Economics of Language : An Introduction and Overview
Chiswick, Barry R. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859575
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Occupational Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap in Private- and Public-Sector Employment : A Distributional Analysis
Baron, Juan; Cobb-Clark, Deborah - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
explaining relative wages. We find that, irrespective of labour market sector, the gender wage gap among low-paid, Australian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859579