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Subject of degree and the gender wage differential : evidence from the UK and Germany
Machin, Stephen; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2002
We show that controlling for subject of degree explains a significant part of the male/female gender wage differential amongst graduates. Using data from the labour force surveys of the United Kingdom and Germany, we find similar results in these two countries: subject of degree explains about...
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The gender wage gap : extent, trends, and explanations
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2016
in high skilled occupations, possibly due to compensating differentials. Gender differences in occupations and industries …
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Occupational match quality and gender over two cohorts
Addison, John T.; Chen, Liwen; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - 2017
Job mobility, especially early in a career, is an important source of wage growth. This effect is typically attributed to heterogeneity in the quality of employee-employer matches, with individuals learning of their abilities and discovering the tasks at which they are most productive through...
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Persistent occupational hierarchies among immigrant worker groups in the United States labor market
Postepska, Agnieszka; Vella, Francis - 2017
by their position in the empirical distribution of occupations based on the corresponding Duncan Socioeconomic Index …
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Wages and employment : the role of occupational skills
Girsberger, Esther Mirjam; Koomen, Miriam; Krapf, Matthias - 2018
How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and estimate a search and matching model for workers with a VET degree. Workers differ in interpersonal, cognitive and manual skills, while firms require and value different...
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Is there a risk-return trade-off across occupations? : Evidence from Spain
Diaz-Serrano, Luis (contributor); Hartog, Joop (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
existence of a riskreturn trade-off across occupations in the Spanish labour market. These results are in conformity with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002471750
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Robust estimation of wage dispersion with censored data : an application to occupational earnings risk and risk attitudes
Pollmann, Daniel; Dohmen, Thomas; Palm, Franz C. - 2012
risk attitudes of individuals working in these occupations. We find that willingness to take risk is positively correlated …
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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
Labour economists typically assume that pay differences between occupations can be explained with variations in … productivity-wage gaps. They find that occupations play distinct roles for remuneration and productivity: while the estimations … ; wages ; occupations ; production function ; matched employer-employee data …
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Wages, sorting on skill, and the racial composition of jobs
Hirsch, Barry T. (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Matching language proficiency to occupation : the effect on immigrants' earnings
Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor);  … - 2007
expected levels of English skills in each of over 500 occupations in the US Census. Earnings data from the 2000 US Census for …
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