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Tenure-based Wage Setting
Hart, Robert A.; Ritchie, Felix - 1999
We provide empirical support for the contention that within-job wage growth relates purely to job-specific performance … and that returns to general experience are assessed at the point of job change. Using the British New Earnings Survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262277
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278590
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Occupational Mobility and Wage Inequality
Kambourov, Gueorgui; Manovskii, Iourii - 2004
increase in the variability of transitory earnings. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261938
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262796
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Intrafirm Mobility and Sex Differences in Pay
Oaxaca, Ronald L.; Ransom, Michael R. - 2003
job titles, wage rates, and earnings for all employees. We examine initial job assignments, mobility between departments … departments and jobs within the firm as a Markov process. The estimated transition probabilities imply that expected seniority is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276291
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271804
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291452
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Education, growth and income inequality
Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - 2003 - This version: February 2003
Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the private return to schooling. We present a simple explanation combining two ideas: imperfect substitution and endogenous skill-biased technological progress and use cross-country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325967
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Education, growth and income inequality
Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001639506