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Low skill but high volatility?
Buch, Claudia M.; Pierdzioch, Christian - 2009
-skilled labor increases. This suppresses wages of low-skilled workers and/or increases their unemployment rates. On the other hand … for the years 1970 - 2004, we document how the volatility of hours worked and of wages of workers at different skill …
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Productivity response to a contract change
Jayaraman, Rajshri; Ray, Debraj; Véricout, Francis de - 2014
This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change for tea pluckers in an Indian plantation. The contract, implemented at the end of a three-year cycle in which contracts are generally revised, was (a) the joint outcome of negotiations between twenty unions and plantations, (b)...
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Distribution and growth in an economy with limited needs
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001
knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a Solovian zone where wages increase with … bliss point can only be made better-off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than set … employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase them in rich …
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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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Earnings dynamics in Germany
Pessoa, Ana Sofia - 2021
normality. For the bottom earners, large income changes are driven equally by hours and wages which is consistent with …
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Biased expectations and labor market outcomes : evidence from German survey data and implications for the East-West wage gap
Balleer, Almut; Duernecker, Georg; Forstner, Susanne; … - 2023
expectations and wages, and a significantly positive relationship between optimistic bias in job finding expectations and … search and matching model of the labor market. Removing the biases could substantially increase wages and expected lifetime …
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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
Students' choices in education can only be based on expected outcomes. Econometric models that infer expectations based on ex post outcomes impose a rational structure of expectations on school performance and post-graduation earnings. Direct surveys suggest much ignorance and fuzziness. We use...
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Labor tax progressivity, wage determination, and the relative wage effect
Brunello, Giorgio; Sonedda, Daniela - 2002
care about their relative wages, and show that the presence of a relative wage concern could help generation a positive …
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Mincer earnings functions for the Netherlands 1962-2012
Hartog, Joop; Gerritsen, Sander - 2016
We extract estimation results on the Mincer earnings function from four earlier studies and add new results from a recent dataset. We analyse differences related to differences in earnings concepts, in sampling frame and differences among studies that cannot be explained. Jointly, the studies...
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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...
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