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Are Occupations Paid What They Are Worth? An Econometric Study of Occupational Wage Inequality and Productivity

Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Labour economists typically assume that pay differences between occupations can be explained with variations in productivity. The empirical evidence on the validity of this assumption is surprisingly thin and subject to various potential biases. The authors use matched employer-employee panel...

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Do Foreign Firms Really Pay Higher Wages? Evidence from Different Estimators

Martins, Pedro S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

We contribute to the literature on Foreign Direct Investment and labour markets by examining wage differentials between domestic and foreign firms, drawing on a large Portuguese matched employer-employee panel. Using OLS, the foreign-firm premium is large and significantly positive but falls...

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Mentoring and Segregation: Female-Led Firms and Gender Wage Policies

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We explore the impact of mentoring of females and gender segregation on wages using a large longitudinal data set for … Portugal. Female managers can protect and mentor female employees by paying them higher wages than male-led firms would do. We … find that females can enjoy higher wages in female-led firms, the opposite being true for males. In both cases is a higher …

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Firm-Level Social Returns to Education

Martins, Pedro S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Do workers benefit from the education of their co-workers? This question is examined first by introducing a model of on-the-job schooling, which argues that educated workers may transfer part of their general skills to uneducated workers and that this spillover is affected by the degrees of...

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Works Councils and the Anatomy of Wages

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Zwick, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper provides the first full examination of the effect of German works councils on wages using matched employer … council premium is decreasing with the position of the worker in the wage distribution. And it is also higher for women than …

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The Wage Returns to On-the-Job Training: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

Almeida, Rita K.; Faria, Marta Lince de - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Skills shortages and skill mismatch are a pressing concern for policymakers in several developing countries, and in East Asia specifically. Providing on-the-job training can be an effective policy tool to shape the skills of the existent workforce to the specific needs of the firms. This paper...

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Money on the Table? Firms' and Workers' Gains from Productivity Spillovers through Worker Mobility

Stoyanov, Andrey; Zubanov, Nikolay - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We estimate how much of the gains from productivity spillovers through worker mobility is retained by the hiring firms, by the workers who bring spillovers, and by the other workers. Using linked employer-employee data from Danish manufacturing for the period 1995-2007, we find that at least...

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Better Workers Move to Better Firms: A Simple Test to Identify Sorting

Bartolucci, Cristian; Devicienti, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We propose a simple test that uses information on workers' mobility, wages and firms' profits to identify the sign and … agents' payoffs are increasing in their own types, our test exploits within-firm variation on wages to rank workers by their …

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