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The performance pay premium : how big is it and does it affect wage dispersion?
Bryson, Alex; Forth, John; Stokes, Lucy - 2014
Using nationally representative linked employer-employee data we find one-quarter of employees in Britain are paid for performance. The log hourly wage gap between performance pay and fixed pay employees is .36 points. This falls to .15 log points after controlling for observable demographic,...
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Does extending unemployment benefits improve job quality?
Nekoei, Arash; Weber, Andrea - 2015
insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. This paper estimates a positive UI wage effect exploiting an age-based regression … balance between two offsetting forces: UI causes agents to seek higher-wage jobs, but also reduces wages by lengthening … both in our sample and across studies, reconciling disparate wage-effect estimates. Empirically, UI raises wages by …
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Wages in high-tech start-ups : do academic spin-offs pay a wage premium?
Dorner, Matthias; Fryges, Helmut; Schopen, Kathrin - 2015
wages in start‐ups unambiguously predicts the existence and the direction of wage differentials between spin‐offs and non … higher wages to employees with linkages to the university sector – either as university graduates or as student workers. …
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The sources of wage growth in a developing country
Marinescu, Ioana E.; Triyana, Margaret - 2015
What are the sources of wage growth in developing countries? In the US, general labor market experience is the key source of wage growth, with job seniority playing a smaller role. By contrast, in Indonesia, the 10-year return to seniority is 24 to 29%, which is higher than the return to...
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Part-time work, wages and productivity : evidence from Belgian matched panel data
Garnero, Andrea; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2013
lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest …
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Structural labor supply models and wage exogeneity
Löffler, Max; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2014
elasticities derived from microeconometric models can also be explained by modeling assumptions with respect to wages. Specifically … very sensitive to the treatment of wages. In particular, the often-made but highly restrictive independence assumption … between preferences and wages is key. To overcome this restriction, we propose a flexible estimation strategy that nests …
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The wage returns to on-the-job training : evidence from matched employer-employee data
Almeida, Rita; Faria, Marta Lince de - 2014
Skills shortages and skill mismatch are a pressing concern for policymakers in several developing countries, and in East Asia specifically. Providing on-the-job training can be an effective policy tool to shape the skills of the existent workforce to the specific needs of the firms. This paper...
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The effect of sexual activity on wages
Drydakis, Nick - 2013
The purpose of this study is to estimate whether sexual activity is associated with wages, and also to estimate … potential interactions between individuals' characteristics, wages and sexual activity. The central hypothesis behind this …'s set of productive traits that affect wages. Using two stage estimations we examine the relationship between adult sexual …
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Better workers move to better firms : a simple test to identify sorting
Bartolucci, Cristian; Devicienti, Francesco - 2013
We propose a simple test that uses information on workers' mobility, wages and firms' profits to identify the sign and … agents' payoffs are increasing in their own types, our test exploits within-firm variation on wages to rank workers by their …
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Structural labor supply models and wage exogeneity
Löffler, Max; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2014 - This version: June 24, 2014
elasticities derived from microeconometric models can also be explained by modeling assumptions with respect to wages. Specifically … very sensitive to the treatment of wages. In particular, the often-made but highly restrictive independence assumption … between preferences and wages is key. To overcome this restriction, we propose a flexible estimation strategy that nests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010366933