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Occupational Match Quality and Gender over Two Cohorts
Addison, John T.; Liwen, Chen; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - 2018
Using a multi-dimensional measure of occupational mismatch, we report distinct gender differences in match quality and changes in match quality over the course of careers. A substantial portion of the gender wage gap stems from match quality differences among more educated individuals....
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General education, vocational education, and labor-market outcomes over the life-cycle
Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger; Zhang, Lei - 2011
Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test...
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The Gender Wage Gap in Developed Countries
Kunze, Astrid - 2017
developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends in the gender differences in wages and employment rates. We then …
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Work and wage dynamics around childbirth
Ejrnæs, Mette; Kunze, Astrid - 2012
identification. On the return to work after the birth, mothers' wages drop by 3 to 5.7 per cent per year of leave. We find negative …
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The Effects of High School Peers' Gender on College Major, College Performance and Income
Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2016
Using an originally constructed dataset that follows 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to the labor market, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic performance and their labor market income. We exploit the...
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Returns to tenure or seniority?
Buhai, I. Sebastian; Portela, Miguel; Teulings, Coen N.; … - 2008
, are the first to leave the firm (Last In, First Out; LIFO). Second, workers' wages rise with seniority (= a worker … to seniority in wages. Efficiency in hiring requires the workers' bargaining power to be in line with their share in the …
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Dissecting Between-Plant and Within-Plant Wage Dispersion - Evidence from Germany
Baumgarten, Daniel; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Lehwald, Sybille - 2018
Using rich linked employer-employee data for (West) Germany between 1996 and 2014, we analyze the most important drivers of the recent rise in German wage dispersion and pin down the relative contribution of plant and worker characteristics. Moreover, we separately investigate the drivers of...
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The Information Value of Central School Exams
Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
The central vs. local nature of high-school exit exam systems can have important repercussions on the labor market. By increasing the informational content of grades, central exams may improve the sorting of students by productivity. To test this, we exploit the unique German setting where...
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Peer Effects in the Workplace
Cornelissen, Thomas; Dustmann, Christian; Schönberg, Uta - 2013
workers, firms, and occupations with a focus on peer effects in wages rather than productivity. Our estimation strategy which … links the average permanent productivity of workers' peers to their wages circumvents the reflection problem and accounts … for the endogenous sorting of workers into peer groups and firms. On average, we find only small peer effects in wages. We …
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Returns to Citizenship? Evidence from Germany's Recent Immigration Reforms
Gathmann, Christina; Keller, Nicolas - 2014
Immigrants in many countries have lower employment rates and lower earnings than natives. We study whether a more liberal access to citizenship improves the economic integration of immigrants. Our analysis relies on two major immigration reforms in Germany, a country with a weak record of...
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