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The assimilation of young workers into the labour market in France : a stochastic earnings frontier approach
Bazen, Stephen; Waziri, Khalid Maman - 2017
left full-time education in France in 1998 and interviewed in 2001 and 2005, this paper examines the process of their …
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Assortative mating and earnings inequality in France
Frémeaux, Nicolas; Lefranc, Arnaud - 2017
This paper analyzes economic assortative mating and its contribution to inequality in France. We first provide … France. The correlation coefficient for education is above 0.6. The correlation in earnings is lower but sizable: around 0 …
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Differences in positions along a hierarchy : counterfactuals based on an assignment model
Gobillon, Laurent; Meurs, Dominique; Roux, Sébastien - 2017
We propose an assignment model in which positions along a hierarchy are attributed to individuals depending on their characteristics. Our theoretical framework can be used to study differences in assignment and outcomes across groups and we show how it can motivate decomposition and...
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Job levels and wages
Bayer, Christian; Kuhn, Moritz - 2023
Job levels summarize the complexity, autonomy, and responsibility of task execution. Conceptually, job levels are related to the organization of production, are distinct from occupations, and can be constructed from data on task execution. We highlight their empirical role in matched...
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Peers' composition effects in the short and in the long run : college major, college performance and income
Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2015
In this paper we use a newly constructed dataset following 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to labor market and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic performance and their labor market income. We...
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Low wage returns to schooling in a developing country : evidence from a major policy reform in Turkey
Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2015
In this paper, we estimate the returns on schooling for young men and women in Turkey using the exogenous and substantial variation in schooling across birth-cohorts brought about by the 1997 reform of compulsory schooling. We estimate that among 18- to 26-year-olds, the return from an extra...
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Employment verification mandates and the labor market outcomes of likely unauthorized and native workers
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Bansak, Cynthia - 2013
impact that the enactment of various types of E-verify mandates may have on the employment and wages of these two populations … likelihood of native workers. Impacts on wages are positive for likely unauthorized women suggesting a large labor supply … reduction. For native-born workers, hourly wages also increase and provide some evidence of substitutability of unauthorized …
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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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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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Money on the table? : firms' and workers' gains from productivity spillovers through worker mobility
Stoyanov, Andrey; Zubanov, Nikolay - 2013
We estimate how much of the gains from productivity spillovers through worker mobility is retained by the hiring firms, by the workers who bring spillovers, and by the other workers. Using linked employer-employee data from Danish manufacturing for the period 1995-2007, we find that at least...
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