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Skills, Workforce Characteristics and Firm-Level Productivity: Evidence from the Matched ABI/Employer Skills Survey
Galindo-Rueda, Fernando; Haskel, Jonathan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
as part-time status and gender on both productivity and wages in English firms. We also investigate how productivity … returns follows from part-timers, who tend to work for firms that pay too low wages for the observed productivity differences …. Second, we study the effect of local skills on productivity controlling for skills at the firm. We find a positive and robust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761914
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Disability and Skill Mismatch
Jones, Melanie K.; Sloane, Peter J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper integrates two strands of literature on overskilling and disability using the 2004 British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS). It finds that the disabled are significantly more likely to be mismatched in the labour market, to suffer from a pay penalty and to have lower job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565209
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How the Human Capital Model Explains Why the Gender Wage Gap Narrowed
Polachek, Solomon W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
female wages rose almost unabated from 1890 to the early-1990s in the United States (with the exception of about 1940 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822883
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A Biological Basis for the Gender Wage Gap: Fecundity and Age and Educational Hypogamy
Polachek, Solomon; Zhang, Xu; Zhou, Xing - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper shows how a shorter fecundity horizon for females (a biological constraint) leads to age and educational disparities between husbands and wives. Empirical support is based on data from a natural experiment commencing before and ending after China's 1980 one-child law. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959772
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IAB Employment Subsample 1975-1995 Opportunities for Analysis Provided by the Anonymised Subsample
Bender, Stefan; Haas, Anette; Klose, Christoph - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
The IAB employment subsample is now available for researchers in a third, anonymised version. Following the so-called basic file and the regional file from the IAB employment subsample, which encompassed the years 1975 to 1990, the actualized version of the basic file covers now the years 1975...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822748
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Labor Market Segmentation and the Earnings of German Guestworkers
Constant, Amelie; Massey, Douglas S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
separate effects of occupational segmentation and discrimination in the allocation of occupations and wages we conceptualize …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822965
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Disability and Job Mismatches in the Australian Labour Market
Jones, Melanie K.; Mavromaras, Kostas G.; Sloane, Peter J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We examine the relationship between disability, job mismatch, earnings and job satisfaction, using panel estimation on data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey (2001-2008). While we do not find any relationship between work-limiting disability and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371898
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Testing for Employee Discrimination Using Matched Employer-Employee Data: Theory and Evidence
Frijters, Paul; Shields, Michael A.; Theodoropoulos, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
proportion of ethnic minorities at their workplace. Secondly, white employees’ wages should also increase with the concentration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566378
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Wages and Seniority When Coworkers Matter: Estimating a Joint Production Economy Using Norwegian Administrative Data
Ferrall, Christopher; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sorensen, Erik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We develop an equilibrium model of wages and estimate it using administrative data from Norway. Coworkers interact … through a task­-assignment model, and wages are determined through multi­lateral bargaining over the surplus that accrues to … the workforce. Seniority affects wages through workplace output and relative bargaining power. These channels are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005070423
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Raising Job Quality and Worker Skills in the US: Creating More Effective Education and Workforce Development Systems in States
Holzer, Harry J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
To improve the employment rates and earnings of Americans workers, we need to create more coherent and effective education and workforce development systems, focusing primarily (though not exclusively) on disadvantaged youth and adults, and with education and training more clearly targeted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010548579