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Overeducation, Wages and Promotions within the Firm
Groeneveld, Sandra; Hartog, Joop - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
We analyse data from personnel records of a large firm producing energy and telecommunication and test for the effect of deviations between required and attained education of workers. Required education is measured as hiring standards set by the firm. We find the usual effects of over- and...
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Anonymous Job Applications in Europe
Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Numerous empirical studies find a substantial extent of discrimination in hiring decisions. Anonymous job applications have gained attention and popularity to identify and combat this form of discrimination. To test whether their intended effects result in practice, in several European countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990936
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Do Women Top Managers Help Women Advance? A Panel Study Using EEO-1 Records
Kurtulus, Fidan Ana; Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of firms' management ranks help reduce barriers to women's advancement in the workplace. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all industries and states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal Employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010541271
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Overeducation, Regional Labour Markets and Spatial Flexibility
Büchel, Felix; van Ham, Maarten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
market) can help to explain the phenomenon of overeducation. For the purposes of this project we obtained special permission … factor in avoiding overeducation: looking for a job on a large labour market increases the probability of finding a suitable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822117
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Educational Mismatch and Wages in Germany
Bauer, Thomas K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999
This paper contributes to the literature considering the wage effects of educational mismatch in Germany. It uses a large German panel data set for the period from 1984 to 1997 and stresses the importance of controlling for unobserved heterogeneity when analyzing the labor market effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822724
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Overeducation, Undereducation, and the Theory of Career Mobility
Büchel, Felix; Mertens, Antje - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
The Theory of career mobility (Sicherman and Galor 1990) claims that wage penalties for overeducated workers are compensated by better promotion prospects. A corresponding empirical test by Sicherman (1991), using mobility to an occupation with higher human capital requirements as an indicator...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822875
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Overeducation and Skill Endowments: The Role of School Achievement and Vocational Training Quality
Büchel, Felix; Pollmann-Schult, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
Thurow’s job-competition model implies that overeducation is contingent upon the differing skill endowments of … have a strong effect on the later risk of overeducation. The quality of the vocational training chosen only impacts on the … overeducation risk when the strong selectivity effects in certain types of schools and types of vocational training are not taken …
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The Career Prospects of Overeducated Americans
Clark, Brian; Joubert, Clement; Maurel, Arnaud - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
overeducated employment, together with the corresponding effects on wages. Overeducation is a fairly persistent phenomenon at the … aggregate and individual levels, with 66% of workers remaining overeducated after one year. Overeducation is not only more … common, but also more persistent among blacks and low-AFQT individuals. Further, the hazard rate out of overeducation drops …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010801189
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Severance Payments for Dismissed Employees in Germany
Grund, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
This contribution investigates severance payments for dismissed employees in Germany. Subsequent to an overview about the legal framework, we respond to the following questions: Who receives severance payments? By which characteristics is the level of severance payments determined? Is...
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Evaluating an Innovative Redundancy-Retraining Project: The Austrian Steel Foundation
Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
This paper evaluates an Austrian manpower training program, which is highly innovative in its content and financing - and could therefore serve as a role model for other programs. In the late 1980s privatization and down-sizing of nationalized steel firms have lead to large-scale redundancies. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703519