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We analyse the role of training in mitigating the negative impact of technical and organizational changes on the employment prospects of older workers. Using a panel of French firms in the late 1990s, we first estimate wage bill share equations for different age groups. Consistently with what is...
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employees care for wages as well as match-specific utility, incumbents earn less than new recruits if and only if firm …
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college education cannot universally be considered an insurance against unpredictability of wages. One conclusion is …
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literature in which wages are regressed on years of overschooling, years of required schooling and years of underschooling is at …
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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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We investigate the effects of works councils on employees' wages and job satisfaction in general and for subgroups with … support for the hypothesis that the introduction of a works council itself increases wages or job satisfaction for the …
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) specification, we find that a 10% increase in immigration increases native wages by 3%. However, as the number of immigrants and the … natives' wages is still positive but much smaller, and natives wages are negatively related to the number of natives. To … understand this asymmetry and the positive impact of immigration on wages, we explore the link between immigration and the …
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higher education graduates. On average, accepted wages are almost 8% higher than reservation wages, but there is no fixed …
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This paper presents new evidence that increases in college enrollment lead to a decline in the average quality of college graduates between 1960 and 2000, resulting in a decrease of 6 percentage points in the college premium. We show that although a standard demand and supply framework can...
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schooling ­ before the individual enters the labor market ­ does not significantly affect later wages after controlling for … control measures on wages, this indicates that it is important to distinguish between premarket skills and those that are …, thus indirectly affecting later wages. The paper conveys important policy implications. If some personality traits, such as …
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