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Earnings-Tenure Profiles: Tests of Agency and Human Capital Theories Using Individual Performance Data

Kato, Takao; Dong, Xiao-Yuan; Jones, Derek C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

policies in China. We find that again consistent with the agency view, earnings-tenure profiles are considerably steeper for … in accounting for upward-sloping earnings-tenure profiles; our findings strongly support the agency view. Our second area … find that earnings-tenure profiles for employee owners are not upward-sloping but horizontal. In addition we find that pay-performance …

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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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Occupational Mobility and Wage Inequality

Kambourov, Gueorgui; Manovskii, Iourii - 2004

increase in the variability of transitory earnings. …

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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...

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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...

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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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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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The value of human and social capital investments for the business performance of start-ups

Bosma, Niels; Praag, Mirjam van; Thurik, Adriaan R.; … - 2002

effect of talent, enhance entrepreneurial performance? We distinguish between three different performance measures: survival … founders, we conclude that specific investments indeed affect the three performance measures substantially and significantly …

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Comparative advantage, relative wages, and the accumulation of human capital

Teulings, Coen N. - 2002

I apply Ricardo’s principle of comparative advantage to a theory of factor substitutability in a model with a continuum of worker and job types. Highly skilled workers have a comparative advantage in complex jobs. The model satisfies the distance-dependent elasticity of substitution (DIDES)...

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