informal and formal workers, both at the means and along the wage distribution. I use two definitions of informal employment: a … (2009-2017). However, the wage penalty to informal employment is substantially higher for individuals at the bottom of the …Purpose: This paper tries to identify the wage gap between informal and formal workers and tests for the two …

recruitment, but non-EU migrants have the largest impact on wage determination. …

, we test for the effects of mandatory military service on wages; employment; marriage/partnership status; and satisfaction … significant effects of this 6 to 9 month career interruption for young German men, with the exception of hourly wage, which shows …

choices to the occupational wage distribution in their country of origin. The empirical results suggest that individuals are … demographics, parental human capital, and ethnic networks. However, the importance of the origin wage declines with the length of …

locking the youth who get off to a bad start into low-wage jobs. …

(ESJ) survey. Overall, the results suggest a wage penalty associated with overeducation. When interacting educational … mismatch with skills mismatch into apparent overeducation and genuine overeducation, the results suggest that the highest wage …

graduates from international programmmes obtain a wage premium of 2.3% starting from the 1st year after graduation, ceteris … paribus. The wage premium keeps increasing by about 1% every year. We investigate the mechanisms through which the wage … premium operates. The wage premia can neither be explained by wage increase via cross-firm mobility, nor by faster upward …

This paper analyses the wage effects of educational mismatch by workers' origin using a sizeable, detailed matched … that over-educated workers, regardless of their origin, suffer a wage penalty compared to their well-matched former … classmates. However, the magnitude of this wage penalty is found to vary considerably depending on workers' origin. In addition …

While the literature on the incidence and wage effects of over-education is substantial, specific results for doctoral … holders in Europe (i.e. in EU Member States and the UK), but also by estimating their wage penalty relative to what they could …, skills needed for the job, other job-specific characteristics and motivations for employment) in order to interpret the over …