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This paper quantifies the long-run impact of exposure to youth minimum wages and sheds light on its mechanisms. It uses …
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This paper investigates the impact of wage dispersion on firm productivity in different working environments. More precisely, it examines the interaction with: i) the skills of the workforce, using a more appropriate indicator than the standard distinction between white- and blue collar workers,...
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experience and technology adoption and the effect of technological change on the returns to experience. Estimates indicate that … technological change is an important explanation for changes in experience premia. We find a complementarity between existing human …
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We examine the dynamic role of education and experience as determinants of wages. It is hypothesized that an employee … market experience and increase with initially unobserved ability, since the employer gradually obtains better information on …
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We address the bias from using potential vs. actual experience in earnings models. Statistical tests reject the …. We correct for this by modeling actual experience as a stochastic regressor and predicting experience using the NLSY79 … and the PSID. Predicted experience measures are applied to the IPUMS. Our results suggest that potential experience biases …
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We estimate the impact of workforce diversity on productivity, wages and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using … econometric issues, show that educational (age) diversity is beneficial (harmful) for firm productivity and wages. The …
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lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest …
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The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied extensively. In the Swedish context this question is of great policy relevance due to the high levels of refugee migration and inflow of tied movers. Using Swedish register data...
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The paper provides a theoretical foundation for the empirical regularities observed in estimations of wage consequences of overeducation and undereducation. Workers with more education than required for their jobs are observed to suffer wage penalties relative to workers with the same education...
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We examine whether the benefits of high school work experience have changed over the last 20 years by comparing effects … experience and occupational attainment. …
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