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Individual pay and outside options : evidence from the Polish labour force survey

Duffy, Fiona; Walsh, Patrick Paul - 2001

Using Polish Labour Force Survey data, we examine whether competition for labour has induced individual pay to depend on outside options, availability and quality of jobs. Exploiting the lack of inter-regional job and worker flows we estimate the elasticity of individual pay, amongst a rich set...

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The timing of careers and human capital depreciation

Kunze, Astrid - 2002

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Careers and wage growth within large firms

Lima, Francisco; Pereira, Pedro Telhado - 2001

The relationship between the worker's career path and wage growth is studied using a longitudinal sample of large firms. The econometric analysis shows that promoted workers receive a positive wage premium even if they stay in the same job level. Demotions are associated with negative wage...

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How does imperfect competition in the labor market affect unemployment policies?

Wauthy, Xavier Yves; Zenou, Yves - 2001

different technologies that imperfectly compete in wages to attract these workers. Once employed, each worker bears an education … subsidy either the education cost or wages and compare them. We found that the first best allocation can only be implemented … firms and show that, in terms of welfare, subsidizing education costs or wages is strictly equivalent. …

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A product market theory of training and turnover in firms

Gersbach, Hans; Schmutzler, Armin - 2001

-specific training if others do the same, because they would otherwise suffer a competitive disadvantage or need to pay high wages in …

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Overtime work, overtime compensation and the distribution of economic well-being : evidence for West Germany and Great Britain

Pannenberg, Markus; Wagner, Gert G. - 2001

Using panel data for West Germany and Great Britain, we show that there are striking differences in overtime work and overtime compensation in the two countries in the 1990s. Our estimates reveal that the observed overtime patterns affect both the evolution of the monthly labour earnings...

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Selection correction in panel data models : an application to labour supply and wages

Dustmann, Christian; Rochina Barrachina, María E. - 2000

In recent years a number of panel estimators have been suggested for sample selection models, where both the selection equation and the equation of interest contain individual effects which are correlated with the explanatory variables. We review and compare some of these estimators, and apply...

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The impact of alcohol consumption on occupational attainment in England

MacDonald, Ziggy; Shields, Michael - 2000

In this study we provide evidence on the effect of alcohol consumption on occupational attainment in England. To do this we use samples of employees from the Health Survey for England between 1992 and 1996. We find that due to the endogenous nature of alcohol consumption, OLS estimates may...

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Is unemployment really scarring? : Effects of unemployment experiences on wages

Arulampalam, Wiji - 2000

. The study could not find any significant effects of unemployment duration on subsequent wages in addition to the incidence …

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Labor and financial market interactions : the case of labor income risk and car insurance in the UK 1969 - 95

Koeniger, Winfried - 2001

Microeconomic theory predicts that under certain regularity conditions higher idiosyncratic risk increases the propensity to insure against independent marketable risks. We apply these predictions to the specific case of labor income risk and car insurance using data from the UK. The main...

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