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This paper integrates two strands of literature on overskilling and disability using the 2004 British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS). It finds that the disabled are significantly more likely to be mismatched in the labour market, to suffer from a pay penalty and to have lower job...
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We investigate the relationship between job complexity and the skills development of adult workers in Europe using the Cedefop European Skills and Jobs Survey (ESJS). The results suggest that challenging workplaces, workplaces in which jobs are designed to include complex tasks, and which place...
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's technical competence is the single strongest predictor of a worker's well-being. Second, we examine equivalent instrumental …
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This paper investigates the role of early life adversity and home resources in terms of competence formation and school …
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Manifold childhood impressions result from the interactions with adult caregivers and the environment. These impressions, be they beneficial or detrimental, shape individual skill formation and achievement over the life cycle. The novelty of the paper is that it bonds two different, hitherto...
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Upon arrival to a new country, many immigrants face job downgrading, a phenomenon describing workers being in jobs far below where they would be assigned based on their skills. Downgrading leads to immigrants receiving lower returns to the same skills than natives. The level of downgrading could...
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In this paper, we study the development and underlying drivers of skill premiums in Germany between 1980 and 2008. We …
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in male wage inequality in Germany over the period 1995–2010. In contrast to most previous contributions, we rely on the … results suggest that recent changes in the distribution of hourly wages in Germany look different from the polarizing patterns …
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Germany, our regression results show that entrepreneurs in creative industries tend to be younger and better educated than …
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This paper combines individual-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with economic and demographic postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities of high- and low-skilled natives. Employing an...
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