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Dual Track or Academic Route for Auditors

Jonker, Nicole; Ophem, Hans van; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

In the Netherlands auditors can be trained in a part-time educational track in which students combine working and studying or in a full-time educational track. The former training is relatively firm-specific whereas the latter training is relatively general. Applying human capital theory, we...

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Whodunnit? Changes in the Relative Demand for Unskilled and Skilled Labor

Schimmelpfennig, Axel - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1999

relative wage of the skilled. Increasing unemployment results only for a restrictive assumption about labor market rigidities. …

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Wage-productivity gap in OECD economies

Elgin, Ceyhun; Kuzubas, Tolga Umut - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

manufacturing sector in OECD economies and investigate its relation to the unemployment rate along with other variables such as … and significantly positive response to shocks to the unemployment rate and negative response to shocks to unionization. …

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Family reunification or point-based immigration system? The case of the United States and Mexico

López Real, Joel - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

the United Kingdom. it is a points-based immigration system which main objective is to attract high skilled immigrants … point system increases the average years of the immigrants by 3.5 years; (ii) the Mexican immigrants suffer a 10% reduction …) the offspring of the immigrants invest more in human capital than the United States natives; (v) the earnings ratio …

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Ethnic Concentration and Human Capital Formation

Graaff, Thomas de; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

Concentration of immigrants and its associated externalities have become an important topic in contemporary … externalities created by the influx of immigrants. Second, it presents a stylized model in which human capital accumulation and …

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Offshoring, Wages and Job Security of Temporary Workers

Görg, Holger; Görlich, Dennis - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular …

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Returns for Entrepreneurs versus Employees: The Effect of Education and Personal Control on the Relative Performance of Entrepreneurs vis-à-vis Wage Employees

Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples’ occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that...

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Starting Wages Respond To Employer's Risk

Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop; Ophem, Hans van - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

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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Wage Dispersion in Russia

Grogan, L.A. - Tinbergen Institute - 1997

This paper examines the extent to which human capital theory can explain observed wage differentials in the Russian Federation. Wage and income dispersion have increased markedly in Russia in the six years since the transition began. Some studies conclude that this is an indicator that Russian...

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Wages and the Bargaining Regime in a Corporist Setting: The Netherlands

Hartog, Joop; Leuven, Edwin; Teulings, Coen - Tinbergen Institute - 2000

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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