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relationship between wages on the one hand and worker and job type indiceson the other. However, for five European countries and … well. Allowing for unobserved heterogeneity and measurement error, we findthat reservation wages are 25% lower than they …
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This paper employs survey data on the reasons to quit of Dutch job changers who entered or left a public sector job in 2001. We show that workers' reasons to quit their public sector job influence their decision to stay in or leave their industry of employment. A bad experience with, for...
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Firms hiring fresh graduates face uncertainty on the future productivity of workers. Theory suggests that starting … wages reflect this, with lower pay for greater uncertainty. We use the dispersion of exam grades within a field of education … as an indicator of the unobserved heterogeneity that employers face. We find solid evidence that starting wages are lower …
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How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples’ occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that...
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In a corporatist country, of which the Netherlands is an example, wages should not be distinguished by union membership …
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This paper has resulted in a publication in <I>Labour Economics</I> (2013), 23, 50-56.<P> 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...</p></i>
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make it easier for them to switch employers than for the part-time educated auditors. The predictions on tenure and wages …
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, pages 8-36.<P> This paper identifies the role of cultural diversity in explaining spatial disparities in wages and housing … interactions-based productivity, consumption amenities and sorting of heterogeneous home owners while controlling for interactions … equilibrium wages and housing prices, particularly in the largest and most densely populated cities. This result is largely driven …
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of a minimum wage affects wages even though, after imposition, the lowest wage in the market exceeds the minimum wage …, and subsequent abolition of the minimum wage does not affect wages. The model has multiple equilibria as a result of the …
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worldwide; (2) lower labor productivity, as the growth in employment is not matched by real value added growth; and (3) positive …
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