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Unobserved Heterogeneity and Risk in Wage Variance : Does Schooling Provide Earnings Insurance?
Mazza, Jacopo - 2011
college education cannot universally be considered an insurance against unpredictability of wages. One conclusion is …
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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration : The Case of Occupations
Kampelmann, Stephan - 2011
Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that...
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Differences by Degree : Evidence of the Net Financial Rates of Return to Undergraduate Study for England and Wales
Walker, Ian - 2010
This paper provides estimates of the impact of higher education qualifications on the earnings of graduates in the UK by subject studied. We use data from the recent UK Labour Force Surveys which provide a sufficiently large sample to consider the effects of the subject studied, class of first...
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Job Changes and Individual-Job Specific Wage Dynamics
Hospido, Laura - 2010
This paper develops an error components model that is used to examine the impact of job changes on the dynamics and variance of individual log earnings. I use data on work histories drawn from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) that makes it possible to distinguish between voluntary and...
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Job Preferences as Revealed by Employee Initiated Job Changes
Grund, Christian - 2011
Many previous studies try to discover job preferences by directly asking individuals. Since it is not sure, whether answers to these surveys are relevant for actual behaviour, this empirical examination offers a new approach based on representative German data. Employees who quit their job and...
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Temporary Contracts and Monopsony Power in the UK Labour Market
Tabasso, Domenico - 2011
wages and a simultaneous increase in travel-to-work distance. Nonetheless, when unobserved characteristics are accounted for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121764
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Promotion and Wages in Mid-Career : Gender, Unionism, and Sector
Addison, John T. - 2012
This paper considers the role of gender in the promotion process and the impact of promotion on wages and wage growth …, using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79). Its focus is upon mid-career promotion and wages … promoted in the private sector (and no less likely in the public sector); that wages are increasing in promotion, and the …
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The Impact of Female Employment on Male Wages and Careers : Evidence from the English Banking Industry, 1890-1941
Seltzer, Andrew - 2012
The late 19th and early 20th century British labour market experienced an influx of female clerical workers. Employers argued that female employment increased opportunities for men to advance; however, most male clerks regarded this expansion of the labour supply as a threat to their pay and...
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High Wage Workers Match with High Wage Firms : Clear Evidence of the Effects of Limited Mobility Bias
Andrews, Martyn J. - 2012
Positive assortative matching implies that high productivity workers and firms match together. However, there is almost no evidence of a positive correlation between the worker and firm contributions in two-way fixed-effects wage equations. This could be the result of a bias caused by standard...
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Wage and Occupational Assimilation by Skill Level
Alcobendas, Miguel - 2012
While much of the literature on immigrants' assimilation has focused on countries with a large tradition of receiving immigrants and with flexible labor markets, very little is known on how immigrants adjust to other types of host economies. With its severe dual labor market, and an...
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