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Overeducation and ethnic minorities in Britain
Battu, Harminder; Sloane, Peter J. - 2002
This study examines the utilisation of education across ethnic minorities in the UK. In particular, we examine the incidence of mismatch between educational qualifications and occupational attainment, the determinants of any mismatch and the consequences for earnings and other labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415198
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Disability and skill mismatch
Jones, Melanie K.; Sloane, Peter J. - 2009
. -- Skills ; disability ; job matching ; earnings ; job satisfaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003899858
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A biological basis for the gender wage gap : fecundity and age and educational hypogamy
Polachek, Solomon W.; Zhang, Xu; Zhou, Xing - 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/10010419016
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Disability and job mismatches in the Australian labour market
Jones, Melanie; Mavromaras, Kostas G.; Sloane, Peter J.; … - 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/10009521176
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IAB employment subsample 1975-1995 : opportunities for analysis provided by the anonymised subsample
Klose, Christoph; Haas, Anette; Bender, Stefan - 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/10011325668
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The timing of careers and human capital depreciation
Kunze, Astrid - 2002
This paper explores the short and long run effects of career interruptions on wages for young skilled workers in West …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411654
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Micro foundations of earnings differences
Das, Tirthatanmoy; Polachek, Solomon W. - 2017
knowledge are most influential in explaining earnings variations. Marketable skills actually acquired in school depend on these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011709811
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Wages and seniority when coworkers matter : estimating a joint production economy using Norwegian administrative data
Ferrall, Christopher; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sørensen, … - 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 separately …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831775
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Employment verification mandates and the labor market outcomes of likely unauthorized and native workers
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Bansak, Cynthia - 2013
impact that the enactment of various types of E-verify mandates may have on the employment and wages of these two populations … likelihood of native workers. Impacts on wages are positive for likely unauthorized women suggesting a large labor supply … reduction. For native-born workers, hourly wages also increase and provide some evidence of substitutability of unauthorized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009753850
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The effects of paid family leave in California on labor market outcomes
Baum, Charles L.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2014
life and possibly also on wages. …
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