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increase in the variability of transitory earnings. …
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job titles, wage rates, and earnings for all employees. We examine initial job assignments, mobility between departments … departments and jobs within the firm as a Markov process. The estimated transition probabilities imply that expected seniority is …
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criteria can ration visas on one or more characteristics that enhance labor market earnings (e.g., education), or on …
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Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...
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Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment (with rather stable wage inequality) have led to a popular view in the economics profession that these two phenomena are related to negative relative demand shocks against the...
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experienced in labor market earnings through wage dispersion and employment rate dispersion. We find a low degree of relative risk … low degree of risk aversion implies that an increase in earnings dispersion would have little effect on schooling …
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In this paper, we investigate the consequences of the rise in educational attainment on the US generational accounts. We build on the 1995 accounts of Gokhale et al. (1999) and disaggregate them per schooling level. We show that low skill newborns are characterized by a negative generational...
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disadvantage in urban labor market is compensated by their higher job mobility. After four jobs, the expected earnings …
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the hypothesis that Nicaraguan migration to Costa Rica was an important factor contributing to falling earnings, increased …
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This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the … human capital, for immigrants and natives, in explaining inter-occupational and intra-occupational earnings progression … mainly driven by intra-occupational earnings progression. Moreover, and contrary to what is observed for natives, we detect …
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