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This paper investigates the sources of wage growth over the life cycle, where individuals have the possibility to acquire vocational training at the start of their career. Wage growth is determined by sectoral and firm mobility, unobserved ability and the accumulation of human capital. Workers...
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This guide, updated for the 2016-17 job market season, describes the U.S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and offers advice on conducting an academic job search. It provides data, reports findings from published papers, describes practical details, and includes links to online...
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Community Survey to examine the effect of formal schooling on worker wages. Given the potential endogeneity of education … censuses. The instrumental variables results suggest that schooling has a significant positive effect on worker wages …. Specifically, an additional year or schooling is estimated to increase hourly wages by 10 percent for men and 12.6 percent for …
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The study explores how wages grow with experience in the Russian Federation. In all available cross-sectional data, the … effects. With certain assumptions concerning human capital depreciation due to aging, our results show that Russian wages do …
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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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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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"Guest workers" earn higher wages overseas on temporary low-skill employment visas. This wage effect can quantify …
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different contractual arrangements and relate it to current wages. We show that returns to experience accumulated in fixed … past is associated with substantially lower wages. Ultimately, heterogeneous returns to experience translate into …
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existing method may yield positive or negative externalities even if wages reflect marginal social products. We propose an …
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This paper explores the short and long run effects of career interruptions on wages for young skilled workers in West …
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