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We examine the dynamic role of education and experience as determinants of wages. It is hypothesized that an employee … market experience and increase with initially unobserved ability, since the employer gradually obtains better information on …
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layer is very positively (negatively) correlated with value added. We then explore the changes in the wages and number of … expand substantially add layers and pay lower average wages in all pre-existing layers. In contrast, firms that expand little … and do not reorganize pay higher average wages in all pre-existing layers. …
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estimate associations between work-related training and wages for private sector men in ten European Union countries. Our … results show that, for the majority of countries, there is a fairly uniform association between training and hourly wages … between training and wages. …
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-economic background. We use this exogenous variation in the demand for education to estimate the effect of education on wages as well as …
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The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997--2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of low-skill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labour market outcomes. This is...
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We use a quantile regression framework to investigate the degree to which work-related training affects the location, scale and shape of the conditional wage distribution. Human capital theory suggests that the percentage returns to training investments will be the same across the conditional...
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, accumulated experience in Israel, economy-wide rise in wages and repeated sampling account for 4.3, 3.1, 1.6, 1.2 and 2% each … accumulated experience in the host country; and (iii) the mobility up the occupational ladder in the host country. We formulate a … arrival, wages of highly skilled immigrants grow at 8.13% a year. Rising prices of skills, occupational transitions …
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, accumulated experience in Israel and economy-wide rise in wages account for 3.4, 1.1, 1.5 and 1.4% each. In the long run, the … accumulated experience in the host country; and, (iii) the mobility up the occupational ladder in the host country. Using human … following arrival, wages of highly skilled immigrants grow at 8% a year. Rising prices of skills, occupational transitions …
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Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new … firms during the transition. Our estimates also indicate that men's wage-experience profile was concave in both regimes and …
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returns to education obtained during communism vs. transition; no change in wage-experience profiles over time; and similar …
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