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Returns to Foreign Language Skills in a Developing Country: The Case of Turkey

Di Paolo, Antonio; Tansel, Aysit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

. Focusing on English, we also explore the heterogeneity in returns to different levels of proficiency by frequency of English …

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Heterogeneity in the Production of Human Capital

Polachek, Solomon; Das, Tirthatanmoy; Thamma-Apiroam, Rewat - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

population wide estimate of the rental rate of human capital. To illustrate heterogeneity in the production of human capital, we …

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Measuring Heterogeneity in Job Finding Rates Among the Nonemployed Using Labor Force Status Histories

Kudlyak, Marianna; Lange, Fabian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We use a novel approach to studying the heterogeneity in the job finding rates of the nonemployed by classifying the … OLF in all three previous months. This heterogeneity cannot be deduced from the one-month LFS or from one-month responses …

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Wage Inequality and Wage Mobility in Turkey

Tansel, Aysit; Dalgic, Basak; Güven, Aytekin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper investigates wage inequality and wage mobility in Turkey using the Surveys on Income and Living Conditions (SILC). This is the first paper that explores wage mobility for Turkey. It differs from the existing literature by providing analyses of wage inequality and wage mobility over...

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On the Heterogeneity of Terror

Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Liebert, Helge; Schulze, Günther G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

between different types of terror. This paper explicitly addresses the heterogeneity of terror by classifying groups according …

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Unobservable, but Unimportant? The Influence of Personality Traits (and Other Usually Unobserved Variables) for the Evaluation of Labor Market Policies

Caliendo, Marco; Mahlstedt, Robert; Mitnik, Oscar A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Many commonly used treatment effects estimators rely on the unconfoundedness assumption ("selection on observables") which is fundamentally non-testable. When evaluating the effects of labor market policies, researchers need to observe variables that affect both treatment participation and labor...

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Dynamic Incentive Effects of Heterogeneity in Multi-Stage Promotion Contests

Stracke, Rudi; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper shows that the incentive effects of heterogeneity may be positive rather than negative in dynamic contests … with multiple stages. In particular, the well-studied adverse effects of heterogeneity in static interactions are … compensated by positive continuation-value and selection effects. Due to these positive dynamic incentive effects of heterogeneity …

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The Impact of Managerial Change on Performance: The Role of Team Heterogeneity

Hentschel, Sandra; Muehlheusser, Gerd; Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

When a key responsibility of a manager is to allocate more or less attractive tasks to subordinates, these subordinates have an incentive to work hard and demonstrate their talents. As a new manager is less well acquainted with these talents this incentive mechanism is reinvigorated after a...

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Heterogeneity in Reported Well-Being: Evidence from Twelve European Countries

Clark, Andrew; Etilé, Fabrice; Postel-Vinay, Fabien; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

panel data from twelve European countries. Introducing both intercept and slope heterogeneity into this relationship, we …

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Skill Wage Premia, Employment, and Cohort Effects: Are Workers in Germany All of the Same Type?

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

as important dimensions of heterogeneity. After having identified cohort effects in skill wage premia and in the …

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