Showing 1 - 10 of 820
This paper analyzes the allocation of workers to jobs and the wage distribution in Germany. Our main contribution is to reconcile prominent empirical models of wage dispersion (Abowd et al., 1999; Card et al., 2013) with theoretical sorting models (Shimer and Smith, 2000; Eeckhout and Kircher, 2011;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011555508
I analyze the impact of a low-wage trade shock on manufacturing workers in a high-wage country, Denmark, and how they adjust to the shock over a decade across all potential adjustment margins, in the labor market and outside. My research illustrates the importance of industry-specific human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584923
Better managers and managerial practices lead to better firm performance. Yet, little is known about what happens when managers move across firms. Does a firm hiring a good manager improve its performance? If yes is there some valuable knowledge the manager has acquired and successfully diffused...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584955
This paper investigates the way in which job mobility contributes to the emergence of a gender wage gap in the Italian … inclusion of individual, job and firm characteristics, to different ways of accounting for individual unobserved heterogeneity …, and is mainly found for voluntary job moves. Exploring the wage growth of job movers, we find that a significant gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271608
employers to notify employees of forthcoming layoffs. MN increases future production, as notified workers search on the job, but … leads to shorter non-employment duration and higher reemployment wages, plausibly driven by on-the-job search. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012657914
reflect the returns to job search investments over the life cycle and shape the curvature of the earnings profile. We further … investigate how worker, firm, and job match heterogeneity influence the returns to mobility, experience, and tenure. The returns … to job mobility are found to reflect sorting into better job matches. Moreover, the estimated returns to experience are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290214
We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through 2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition stemming from China's spectacular rise as a manufacturing exporter paired with longitudinal data on individual earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010420683
Assuming decreasing returns to education and the endogenous supply of qualified and nonqualified labour it is shown to be efficient to supplement a consumption tax with positive incentives for education. If the return from education is isoelastic and if the choice is between (i) subsidizing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264005
The passage of Title IX, the 1972 Education Amendments to the Civil Rights Act, expanded high school athletic opportunities to include girls, revolutionizing mass sports participation in the United States. This paper analyzes high school athletic participation in the United States and how sports...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264259
We use Swiss data to test whether intergenerational educational mobility is affected by the age at which children first enter (primary) school. Early age at school entry significantly affects mobility and reduces the relative advantage of children of better educated parents.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264553