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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany
Gernandt, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2006
Germany the group of workers with low tenure experienced higher inequality. …
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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany
Gernandt, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2006
the group of workers with low tenure experienced higher increases in wage inequality compared to the group of workers with … high tenure. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297934
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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Gernandt, Johannes - 2007
the group of workers with low tenure experienced higher increases in wage inequality compared to the group of workers with … high tenure. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298016
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Workers, Firms, or Institutions: What Determines Job Duration for Male Employees in Germany?
Boockmann, Bernhard; Steffes, Susanne - 2008
We examine job durations of German workers using linked employer-employee data. Our results indicate that exit rates are strongly influenced by firm characteristics. The effects of some of these characteristics, however, are limited to particular job positions or skill groups. There is clear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298698
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How general is human capital? A task-based approach
Gathmann, Christina; Schönberg, Uta - 2007
This paper studies how portable skill accumulated in the labor market are. Using rich data on tasks performed in occupations, we propose the concept of task-specific human capital to measure the transferability of skills empirically. Our results on occupational mobility and wages show that labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268280
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Job search, human capital and wage inequality
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos - 2012
The objective of this paper is to construct and quantitatively assess an equilibrium search model with on-the-job search and general human capital accumulation. In the model workers enter the labour market with different abilities and firms differ in their productivities. Wages are dispersed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290001
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Jacob Mincer, Experience and the Distribution of Earnings
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2003
This paper reviews Jacob Mincer?s contributions to the analyses of earnings and the distribution of earnings through … theoretical literature on the distribution of earnings in the pre-Mincer period, and then discusses his analysis of human capital … and earnings developed in his 1957 doctoral dissertation and 1958 Journal of Political Economy (JPE) article. Further …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261574
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Migration, the quality of the labour force and economic inequality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008
Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268676
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Employee Training and Wage Compression in Britain
Almeida-Santos, Filipe; Mumford, Karen - 2004
recognised vocational qualification and current union membership. Whilst being non-white, shorter current job tenure, and part …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261946
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Explaining rising returns to education in urban China in the 1990s
Liu, Xuejun; Park, Albert; Zhao, Yaohui - 2010
the rapid increase in the returns to education experienced by China during the 1990s. Analyzing Chinese urban household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269848