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Brain Types and Wages
Drydakis, Nick - 2015
We examine the association between brain types and wages using the UK Behavioural Study dataset for the period 2011 to 2013 (four waves). By applying Empathising-Systemising Theory (E-S), the estimations suggest that, for men and women, systemising traits are associated with higher wage returns...
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Bidding for Talent : A Test of Conduct in a High-Wage Labor Market
Roussille, Nina; Scuderi, Benjamin - 2023
We develop a procedure for adjudicating between models of firm wage-setting conduct. Using data on workers' choice sets and decisions over real jobs from a U.S. job search platform, we first estimate workers' rankings over firms' non-wage amenities. We document three key findings: 1) On average,...
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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration : The Case of Occupations
Kampelmann, Stephan - 2011
into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s …
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Doing Well in Reforming the Labour Market? Recent Trends in Job Stability and Wages in Germany
Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2013
The German "employment miracle", with a weak decline in employment and low unemployment during the great recession, seems to be a good example for a successful labour market reform. Nevertheless, there are concerns about rising inequality in the labour market. In this paper we analyze the...
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Do Labour Market Institutions Matter? Micro-Level Wage Effects of International Outsourcing in Three European Countries
Geishecker, Ingo - 2008
labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries …
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Naturalization and Labor Market Performance of Immigrants in Germany
Riphahn, Regina T. - 2018
study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and …
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The Changing Situation of Labor Market Entrants in Germany : A Long-Run Analysis of Wages and Occupational Patterns
Reinhold, Mario - 2016
similar trend in Germany. Based on comprehensive, long-run administrative data for the years 1975 to 2010, we use a set of … reveal similarities between Germany and the U.S. in terms of some declining fortunes of the young. However, whereas in the U ….S. college educated workers have been affected, the results indicate that in Germany the medium-skilled and low-skilled have been …
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Labor Market Risk in Germany
Krebs, Tom - 2016
This paper uses annual data drawn from the GSOEP to estimate individual earnings risk (labor market risk) in Germany … been rising in West Germany in the 1990s and have remained at elevated levels in the 2000s. In contrast, labor market risk … in East Germany did not rise. These findings are robust to different sample selection criteria and changes in the …
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Scarring Effects of the First Labor Market Experience
Nordstrom Skans, Oskar - 2011
The paper studies the relationship between teenagers' first labor market experience and subsequent labor market performance using data on all Swedish youths graduating from vocational high schools in the recession years of 1991-94. Sibling fixed-effects combined with detailed data on high school...
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Overeducation and Mismatch in the Labor Market
Leuven, Edwin - 2011
This paper surveys the economics literature on overeducation. The original motivation to study this topic were reports that the strong increase in the number of college graduates in the early 1970s in the US led to a decrease in the returns to college education. We argue that Duncan and...
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