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Trade adjustment : worker level evidence
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; Song, Jae - 2014
We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through … paired with longitudinal data on individual earnings by employer spanning close to two decades. Individuals who in 1991 … worked in manufacturing industries that experienced high subsequent import growth garner lower cumulative earnings, face …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010412742
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Student earnings expectations : heterogeneity or noise?
Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Hartog, Joop; Nilsson, William; … - 2016 - First draft 12-05-14; revised 26-01-15; this draft 19-09-2016
on ex post outcomes impose a rational structure of expectations on school performance and post-graduation earnings … countries and check for relations of expected probability to graduate and of expected earnings with personal abilities and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011544177
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Returns to ICT skills
Oliver, Falck; Heimisch, Alexandra; Wiederhold, Simon - 2016
How important is mastering information and communication technologies (ICT) in modern labor markets? We present the first evidence on this question, drawing on unique data that provide internationally comparable information on ICT skills in 19 countries. Our identification strategy relies on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416403
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Trade, wages, and profits
Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter; Kreickemeier, Udo - 2012
This paper formulates a structural empirical model of heterogeneous firms whose workers exhibit fair-wage preferences, leading to a link between a firm's operating profits and wages of workers employed by this firm. We estimate the parameters of the model in a data-set of five European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009581985
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Cyclical earnings, career and employment transitions
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Visschers, Ludo; Wiczer, David - 2022
This paper studies the cyclical behaviour of earnings risk and career changes. We document that the procyclical … skewness of the earnings growth distribution arises mostly from the earnings changes of employer and occupation switchers. To … uncover their relative importance in driving cyclical earnings changes and whether this arises from changes in the returns to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013390926
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The value of early-career skills
Langer, Christina; Wiederhold, Simon - 2023
We develop novel measures of early-career skills that are more detailed, comprehensive, and labor-market-relevant than existing skill proxies. We exploit that skill requirements of apprenticeships in Germany are codified in state-approved, nationally standardized apprenticeship plans. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013550210
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How much sunlight does it take to disinfect a boardroom? : a short history of executive compensation regulation
Dew-Becker, Ian (contributor) - 2008
This paper reviews the history of executive compensation disclosure and other government policies affecting CEO pay, and as well surveys the literature on the effects of these policies. Disclosure has increased nearly uniformly since 1933. A number of other regulations, including special taxes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003749481
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The China shock : learning from labor market adjustment to large changes in trade
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2016
China's emergence as a great economic power has induced an epochal shift in patterns of world trade. Simultaneously, it has toppled much of the received empirical wisdom about how labor markets adjust to trade shocks. Alongside its heralded consumer benefits, trade has both significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444857
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Single motherhood and the abolition of coverture in the United States
Alshaikhmubarak, Hazem; Geddes, Raymond Richard; … - 2017
market earnings and to own separate property. The former were called married women's earnings acts (MWEAs) and the latter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653755
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Learning from the past : trends in executive compensation over the twentieth century
Frydman, Carola (contributor) - 2008
In recent years, a large academic debate has tried to explain the rapid rise in CEO pay experienced over the past three decades. In this article, I review the main proposed theories, which span views of compensation as the result of a competitive labor market for executives to theories based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003790763