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This paper analyses the wage effects of educational mismatch by workers’ origin using a sizeable, detailed matched employer-employee dataset for Belgium. Relying on a fine-grained approach to measuring educational mismatch, the results show that over-educated workers, regardless of their...
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We examine how the gender of business-owners is related to the wages paid to female relative to male employees working … - starting from a gender pay gap of 11 to 12 percent - two to three percentage-points lower for hourly wages in female … - determine wages and no differences in the pay gap are observed between male- and female-owned firms. …
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mismatch, this study analyses the short and medium-term effects of over- and undereducation on the wages of newly hired workers … results also indicate that the wages of individuals in the beginning of their labour market career are the most affected by a …
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Overeducated workers are more productive and have higher wages in comparison to their adequately educated coworkers in … the same jobs. However, they face a series of challenges in the labor market, including lower wages in comparison to their … performance pay jobs as an adjustment mechanism and that performance pay moderates their wages. Using German Socio-Economic Panel …
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This study conducts a meta-analysis to assess the effects of robotization on employment and wages, compiling data from … 33 studies with 644 estimates on employment and a subset of 19 studies with 195 estimates on wages. We identify a … publication bias towards negative outcomes, especially concerning wages. After correcting for this bias, the actual impact appears …
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Purpose: This paper tries to identify the impact of international student mobility on the first wages of tertiary … and international experience as control variables. The author addresses the possible selection to employment bias by using …
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We test for the signalling hypothesis versus human capital theory using the Wiles test (1974) in a country which has experienced a dramatic increase in the supply of skills. For this purpose, we construct a job match index based on the usefulness of the school-provided skills and the relevance...
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Purpose: This paper tries to identify the wage gap between informal and formal workers and tests for the two-tier structure of the informal labour market in Poland. Design/methodology/approach: I employ the propensity score matching (PSM) technique and use data from the Polish Labour Force...
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test the impact of tasks at work on average wages and wage inequality. Our results show remarkable differences in the …
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In this paper we use a large official employer-employee dataset, which includes almost the whole universe of business firms, to document and decompose the rising graduates postgraduates’ wage differentials in Portugal. Using a non-parametric matching exercise, we pay particular attention to...
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