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Moving Up the Social Ladder? Wages of First- and Second-Generation Immigrants from Developing Countries
Pineda-Hernández, Kevin; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022
As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working-age population in the developed world, their labour market integration constitutes a key factor for fostering economic development and social cohesion. Using a granular, matched...
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What drives employment-unemployment transitions? Evidence from Italian task-based data
Cassandro, Nicola; Centra, Marco; Esposito, Piero; … - 2020
evidence of the determinants of unemployment risk in Italy. We find that workers employed in routine-intensive occupations … (measured with the RTI proposed by Acemoglu and Autor, 2011) do not display – on average - higher unemployment risks than the …. Finally, the distribution of unemployment risk and its relation with routine-task intensity varies significantly across …
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Much ado about nothing? The wage penalty of holding a Ph.D. degree but not a Ph.D. job position
Gaeta, Giuseppe Lucio; Lavadera, Giuseppe Lubrano; … - 2017
This paper contributes to the literature on overeducation by empirically investigating the wage penalty of job-education mismatch among Ph.D. holders who completed their studies in Italy; a country where the number of new doctoral recipients has dramatically increased over recent years while...
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Loud or quiet quitting? The influence of work orientations on effort and turnover
Nikolova, Milena - 2024
This study examines work orientations as a novel determinant influencing job search behaviors, quit intentions, and workplace effort, thereby integrating this concept into the field of labor economics. Work orientations, the intrinsic beliefs regarding the role of work in one's life, relate to...
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Self-employment and Subjective Well-Being
Binder, Martin; Blankenberg, Ann-Kathrin - 2021
Self-employment contributes to employment growth and innovativeness and many individuals want to become self-employed due to the autonomy and exibility it brings. Using "subjective well-being" as a broad summary measure that evaluates an individual's experience of being self-employed, the...
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The impact of working conditions on mental health: novel evidence from the UK
Belloni, Michele; Carrino, Ludovico; Meschi, Elena - 2022
This paper investigates the causal impact of working conditions on mental health in the UK, combining new comprehensive longitudinal data on working conditions from the European Working Condition Survey with microdata from the UK Household Longitudinal Survey (Understanding Society). Our...
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Overeducation, Overskilling and Job Satisfaction in Europe: The Moderating Role of Employment Contracts
Giuliano, Romina; Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François; … - 2024
This paper is the first to examine whether and how overeducation and overskilling, considered separately and in interaction, influence workers' job satisfaction at European level. It also investigates the moderating role of employment contracts. Our results, based on a unique pan-European...
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Overeducation wage penalty among Ph.D. holders. An unconditional quantile regression analysis on Italian data
Gaeta, Giuseppe Lucio; Lubrano Lavadera, Giuseppe; … - 2018
The wage effect of overeducation has only recently been investigated in the case of Ph.D. holders. The existing contributions rely on OLS estimates that allow measuring the average effect of being educationally mismatched at the mean of the conditional wage distribution. This paper, instead,...
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Digitalization at work, Job Tasks and Wages: Cross-Country evidence from PIAAC1
De La Rica, Sara; Gortazar, Lucas - 2017
The aim of the paper is threefold. First, we compute differences on job tasks (Abstract, Routine and Manual) across a harmonized and hence comparable sample of Anglo-saxon, many European and even Asian advanced countries. We do so by using very precise information on job contents at the worker...
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Returns to Postgraduate Education in Portugal: Holding on to a Higher Ground?
Almeida, André; Figueiredo, Hugo; Cerejeira, João; … - 2017
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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