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independence. In short, they climb the career ladder. Climbing the career ladder explains 50% of wage growth and virtually all of … rising wage dispersion. The increasing gender wage gap by age parallels a rising hierarchy gap. Our findings suggest that … wage dynamics are shaped by the organization of production, which itself likely depends on technology, the skill set of the …
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We use British household panel data to explore the wage returns to training incidence and intensity (duration) for 6924 … further conclude that training is positively associated with wage dispersion in Britain and a virtuous circle of wage gains …
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While some workers in China attain senior professional level and senior cadre level status (Chuzhang and above), others attain middle rank including middle rank of professional and cadre (Kezhang). This aspect of the Chinese labor force has attracted surprisingly little attention in the...
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-skilled workers during the 2000s. Changes in the minimum wage, and more importantly, commodity-led terms of trade improvements are key …
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Why has the college wage premium risen rapidly in the United States since the 1980s, but not in European economies such …
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We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education. We replicate the original study on US men and extend to US women, UK men and German men. Most original results are not robust. A college education cannot universally be considered an...
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This paper demonstrates that locus of control, i.e. whether individuals believe that reinforcement in life comes from their own actions instead of being determined by luck or destiny, is an important predictor of the decision to obtain higher education. Furthermore, the authors find that...
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The paper provides a theoretical foundation for the empirical regularities observed in estimations of wage consequences … of overeducation and undereducation. Workers with more education than required for their jobs are observed to suffer wage … less education than required for their jobs earn wage rewards. These departures from the Mincer human capital earnings …
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Is there a reward for basic skills in the German labor market? To answer this question, we examine the relationship between literacy, numeracy and monthly gross earnings of full-time employed workers. We use data from the ALWA survey, augmented by test scores on basic cognitive skills as well as...
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The HIV epidemic has dramatically decreased labor supply among prime-age adults in sub-Saharan Africa. Using within-country variation in regional HIV prevalence and a synthetic panel, I find that HIV significantly increases the capital-labor ratio in urban manufacturing firms. The impact of HIV...
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