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Wage premia for newly hired employees: Theory and evidence

Kampkötter, Patrick; Sliwka, Dirk - 2011

We investigate wage differences between newly hired and incumbent employees. We show in a formal model that when employees care for wages as well as match-specific utility, incumbents earn less than new recruits if and only if firm-specific human capital is not too important. The existence and...

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The Complementarity of Language and Other Human Capital: Immigrant Earnings in Canada

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 … Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with … languages enhances the effects on earnings of schooling and pre-immigration labor market experience. Language proficiency and …

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Transferability of human capital and immigrant assimilation: an analysis for Germany

Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K. - 2010

This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience...

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Worker productivity and wages: Evidence from linked employer-employee data

Lopes, Ana Sofia; Teixeira, Paulino - 2012

This study compares the determinants of productivity and wages at both firm and worker level. In the firm-level analysis, we follow Hellerstein, Neumark and Troske (1999) and provide improved estimates based on an extended set of covariates including the intensity of firm-provided training. In...

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Returns for entrepreneurs versus employees : the effect of education and personal control on the relative performance of entrepreneurs vis-a-vis wage employees

Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - 2009

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences … show furthermore that entrepreneurs have higher returns to education than employees (in terms of the comparable performance …

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Returns for entrepreneurs vs. employees: the effect of education and personal control on the relative performance of entrepreneurs vs. wage employees

van Praag, C. Mirjam; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen; van … - 2009

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs' performance as compared to employees'? What might explain any differences … show furthermore that entrepreneurs have higher returns to education than employees (in terms of the comparable performance …

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Are Immigrants Favorably Self-Selected? An Economic Analysis

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2000

criteria can ration visas on one or more characteristics that enhance labor market earnings (e.g., education), or on …

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Returns to Human Capital under the Communist Wage Grid and During the Transition to a Market Economy

Terrell, Katherine; Svejnar, Jan; Münich, Daniel - 2000

Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new micro data on men to estimate returns to human capital under the communist wage grid and during the transition to a market economy. We use data from the Czech Republic because it...

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Firm-Sponsored General Training in Frictional Labour Markets : An Empirical Analysis for Switzerland

Gerfin, Michael - 2004

According to the classical human capital theory general training is entirely financed by workers. This prediction is at odds with the empirical evidence. This observation inspired new theoretical models of training in frictional labour market. These frictions create incentives for firms to...

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Labor market entry conditions, wages and job mobility

Bachmann, Ronald; Bauer, Thomas K.; David, Peggy - 2010

Economic conditions at the time of labour market entry can induce wage differentials between workers entering the labour market at different points in time. While the existence and persistence of these entry wage differentials are well documented, little is known about their interaction with...

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