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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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wages and a simultaneous increase in travel-to-work distance. Nonetheless, when unobserved characteristics are accounted for …
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In this paper, we analyse differences in the cyclical pattern of employment and wages of immigrants and natives for two …
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This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different …
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We provide new evidence about earnings and labour market volatility in Britain over the period 1992-2008, and for women as well as men. (Most research about volatility refers to earnings volatility for US men.) We show that earnings volatility declined slightly for both men and women over the...
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wages to prevent them to quit. Similarly, workers with a high layoff probability give up some of their wage to prevent them … may be related to downward wage rigidity. While it is easy to renegotiate higher wages to prevent quits, it is much more … difficult to renegotiate lower wages to prevent layoffs even if that would overall be beneficial to the workers involved …
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Income inequality has been lower in periods when trade unionism has been strong. Using observations on wages by … wage differentials are revealed. As wages increased, some contracts maintained relative wage differentials constant, some … maintained absolute differences in wages constant, others combined these two patterns, and some did not reveal an obvious pattern …
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The paper studies the relationship between teenagers' first labor market experience and subsequent labor market performance using data on all Swedish youths graduating from vocational high schools in the recession years of 1991-94. Sibling fixed-effects combined with detailed data on high school...
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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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licensing is associated with about 18 percent higher wages, but the effect of governmental certification on pay is much smaller … little association between licensing and the variance of wages, in contrast to unions. Overall, our results show that …
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