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The objective of this paper is to construct and quantitatively assess an equilibrium search model with on-the-job search and general human capital accumulation. In the model workers enter the labour market with different abilities and firms differ in their productivities. Wages are dispersed...
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, are the first to leave the firm (Last In, First Out; LIFO). Second, workers' wages rise with seniority (= a worker …'s tenure relative to the tenure of her colleagues). We seek to explain these regularities by developing a dynamic model of the … 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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of post-displacement earnings losses. Whereas skill shortages are associated with relatively quick returns to the … counterfactual earnings trajectories that displaced workers would have experienced absent displacement, skill redundancy sets … displaced workers on paths with permanently lower earnings …
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This paper investigates equilibria in a labor market where firms post wage/tenure contracts and risk-averse workers … endogenously over time through experience effects, tenure effects and quits to better paid employment. This equilibrium approach … suggests how to identify econometrically between experience and tenure effects on worker wages. …
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acquisition, with important implications for the assessment of immigrants’ career paths and the estimation of their earnings …
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This study is the first to explore long-run trends of numeracy for the 1820-1949 period in 165 countries, and its contribution to growth. Estimates of the long-run numeracy development of most countries in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, America, and Europe are presented, using age-heaping...
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Following the collapse of planning, new small and medium-sized firms rapidly emerged in all transition economies. Using firm level data, we investigate the interaction between the widespread opportunities for new business activities such firms faced and their business environment. The business...
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Employing an endogenous growth model with human capital, this paper explores how productivity shocks in the goods and human capital producing sectors contribute to explaining aggregate fluctuations in output, consumption, investment and hours. Given the importance of accounting for both the...
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This study replicates and challenges the finding of zero wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany by Pischke and von Wachter (Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(3), 592-598), which is unusual in the literature yet widely cited and until now uncontradicted. I document that this finding...
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positively self-selected in terms of education and earnings. We also find strong evidence of sorting: men who emigrate outside … Nordic countries are considerably better educated and have higher earnings and residual earning than men who emigrate to … Nordic countries. Most of the self-selection in terms of higher earnings can be explained by emigrants being more educated …
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