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firms or establishments and according to the occupation and hence the tasks of the workers - we show that structural change … workers deviate markedly from the employment numbers based on the industry classification of employers. The decline in … alternative employment option for workers with manufacturing occupations. We estimate the causal effects of a switch to the …
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technologyadopting occupations for workers with low-educated parents, and reduced their wage penalty within these occupations. We also … show that this significantly contributed to a decline in the overall wage penalty experienced by workers from disadvantaged …
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We analyze the evolution of the wage structure in East Germany over the past two decades and compare it to West Germany. Both regions experienced a rise in wage inequality between 1995 and 2009 with wage dispersion in East Germany exceeding West Germany, esp. at the top. We also show that wage...
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The paper analyses the applicability of vocational training and the earnings of apprentices using survey data from West … Institute for Vocational Training and the Research Institute of the Federal Labour Office. For each cross-section we estimate an … what workers have learned during apprenticeship. Furthermore, we estimate earnings functions with the same specification …
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As skills of labor-market entrants are usually not directly observed by employers, individuals acquire skill signals. To study which signals are valued by employers, we simultaneously and independently randomize a broad range of skill signals on pairs of resumes of fictitious applicants among...
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adopting occupations for workers with low-educated parents, and reduced their wage penalty within these occupations. We also … show that this significantly contributed to a decline in the overall wage penalty experienced by workers from disadvantaged …
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I study the life-cycle pattern of part-time employment and its impact on wage growth in female careers. I show that the part-time wage penalty consists of two essential components: i) a penalty for promotions and ii) a within-career-level wage penalty. Using dynamic structural modeling, I...
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This paper examines the extent to which aggregate-level de-routinization can be attributed to firm-level technology adoption during the most recent technological expansion. We use administrative data and a novel firm survey to distinguish frontier technologies from older technologies. We find...
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that the effects are mitigated in firms that provide training and assistance in the adjustment process for workers. … technologies, and workers’ health outcomes using novel and representative German linked employer-employee data. Based on changes in … and service-oriented tasks across all workers, but exacerbates health inequality between cognitive and manual workers …
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regional training supply and employees ́training participation. Controlling for other regional factors such as the local … training participation is significantly higher in regions with many firms in the training supply market. The predictive power …
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