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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 … wages. We find that firms value cognitive skills on average almost twice as much as interpersonal and manual skills, and … they prize complementarity in cognitive and interpersonal skills. The average return to VET skills in hourly wages is 9 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872260
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Share capitalism and worker wellbeing
Bryson, Alex; Clark, Andrew E.; Freeman, Richard B.; … - 2014
levels, which suggests these pay methods provide utility to workers in addition to that through higher wages. These findings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010458483
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The value of working conditions in the United States and implications for the structure of wages
Maestas, Nicole; Mullen, Kathleen J.; Powell, David; … - 2018
This paper documents variation in working conditions among workers in the United States, presents new estimates of how workers value these conditions, and assesses the impact of working conditions on estimates of the wage structure and inequality. We use evidence from a series of stated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011946821
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Social comparison in the workplace : evidence from a field experiment
Cohn, Alain; Fehr, Ernst; Herrmann, Benedikt; … - 2011
depends on the wages paid to coworkers. Workers were assigned to teams of two, performed identical individual tasks, and … received the same performance - independent hourly wage. Cutting both team members' wages caused a substantial decrease in … twice as large as the individual performance decrease when both workers' wages were cut. This finding indicates that social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009233076
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Monetary rewards, hierarchy level and working hours as drivers of employees' self-evaluations
Grund, Christian; Soboll, Alexandra - 2023
In this study, we explore the relation between job characteristics and employees' self-evaluations of performance in comparison to their colleagues' performance. Making use of unique individual panel data of ten large firms in Germany's chemical industry, we focus on monetary rewards (bonus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249264
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Immigrants in risky occupations
Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline - 2012
This chapter reviews the economics literature on immigrant-native differentials in occupational risk. It begins by briefly explaining the theory of compensating wage differentials. It then provides a more detailed discussion of the empirical evidence on the subject, which reaches several...
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Good job, bad job, no job? : ethnicity and employment quality for men in the UK
Clark, Kenneth; Ochmann, Nico - 2022
Ethnic minority men find it harder to obtain good jobs in the UK labour market than White British men. Over time, while the very high unemployment rates experienced by some non-white ethnic groups have significantly declined and their share of good jobs has grown, their share of bad jobs has...
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Adverse working conditions and immigrants' physical health and depression outcomes: a longitudinal study in Greece
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
contract of employment, receiving hourly wages lower than the national hourly minimum wages, and experiencing insults and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012612599
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Immigration, working conditions, and compensating differentials
Sparber, Chad; Zavodny, Madeline - 2020
The large inflow of less-educated immigrants that the United States has received in recent decades can worsen or improve U.S. natives' labor market opportunities. Although there is a general consensus that low-skilled immigrants tend to hold "worse" jobs than U.S. natives, the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012288356
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Teacher preferences, working conditions, and compensation structure
Johnston, Andrew - 2020
Improving schools depends on attracting high-caliber teachers and increasing retention, both made possible by appealing to teacher preferences. I deploy a discrete-choice experiment in a setting where teachers have reason to reveal their preferences. There are three main findings: (1) I...
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