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Does over-education raise productivity and wages equally? : the moderating role of workers' origin and immigrants' background

Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022

We provide first evidence of the impact of over-education, among natives and immigrants, on firm-level productivity and wages. We use Belgian linked panel data and rely on the methodology from Hellerstein et al. (1999) to estimate ORU (over-, required, and under-education) equations aggregated...

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Wage structure effects of international trade : evidence from a small open economy

Du Caju, Philip; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan - 2011

In the last decades, international trade has increased between industrialised countries and between high- and low-wage countries. This important change has raised questions on how international trade affects the labour market. In this spirit, this paper aims to investigate the impact of...

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Productivity gains and spillovers from offshoring

Michel, Bernhard; Rycx, François - 2011

for Belgium over the period 1995-2004, we examine this issue separately for manufacturing and market services. The results …

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Does wage dispersion make all firms productive?

Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2011

This article puts the relationship between wage dispersion and firm productivity to an updated test, taking advantage of access to detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data. Controlling for simultaneity issues, time-invariant workplace characteristics and dynamics in the adjustment...

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Does it pay to be productive? : the case of age groups

Cataldi, Alessandra; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2011

Using longitudinal matched employer-employee data for the period 1999-2006, we investigate the relationship between age, wage and productivity in the Belgian private sector. More precisely, we examine how changes in the proportions of young (16-29 years), middle-aged (30-49 years) and older...

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Are occupations paid what they are worth? : an econometric study of occupational wage inequality and productivity

Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2011

biases. The authors use matched employer-employee panel data from Belgium for the years 1999-2006 to examine occupational …

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The impact of educational mismatch on firm productivity : evidence from linked panel data

Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2012

on representative linked employer-employee panel data for Belgium covering the period 1999-2006. Controlling for …

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Does institutional diversity account for pay rules in Germany and Belgium?

Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2011

) higher overall pay inequality in Germany; (II) higher pay inequalities between employees and workers in Belgium; and (III … institutional details: although Germany and Belgium belong to the same "variety of capitalism", we provide evidence that small …

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The part-time wage penalty in European countries : how large is it for men?

O'Dorchai, Sile (contributor); Plasman, Robert (contributor) - 2007

penalty for male workers in six European countries (i.e. Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Spain, and the UK). Findings show … that the raw gap in hourly gross pay amounts to 16 per cent of male part-timer’s wage in Spain, to 24 per cent in Belgium …

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Wages and the bargaining regime under multi-level bargaining : Belgium, Denmark and Spain

Plasman, Robert (contributor); Rusinek, Michael (contributor) - 2006

by a multi-level system of bargaining: Belgium, Denmark and Spain. Our findings show that, compared to multi …-employer bargaining, single-employer bargaining has a positive effect both on wage levels and on wage dispersion in Belgium and in Denmark … in Belgium and Denmark, single-employer bargaining is used to adapt pay to the specific needs of the firm while, in Spain …

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