Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 438
Cover Image
Why Ex(Im)porters Pay More:Evidence from Matched Firm-Worker Panels
Martins, Pedro S.; Opromolla, Luca David - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
We investigate the relationship between exporting, importing, and wage premia using a richmatched employer-employee data set. We improve on the previous literature (i) by using anew methodology to quantify the contribution of an extensive set of worker- and firm-levelobservable and unobservable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522216
Cover Image
Assessing the Importance of Male and FemalePart-Time Work for the Gender Earnings Gap in Britain
Mumford, Karen; Smith, Peter N. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This study examines the role of individual characteristics, occupation, industry, region, andworkplace characteristics in accounting for differences in hourly earnings between men andwomen in full and part-time jobs in Britain. A four-way gender-working time split (male fulltimers,male...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862315
Cover Image
Scarring Effects of the First Labor Market Experience
Nordstrom Skans, Oskar - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128223
Cover Image
Age Biased Technical and Organisational Change, Training and Employment Prospects of Older Workers
Behaghel, Luc - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128836
Cover Image
Wage Premia for Newly Hired Employees : Theory and Evidence
Kampkötter, Patrick - 2011
employees care for wages as well as match-specific utility, incumbents earn less than new recruits if and only if firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129084
Cover Image
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129090
Cover Image
Overeducation and Mismatch in the Labor Market
Leuven, Edwin - 2011
literature in which wages are regressed on years of overschooling, years of required schooling and years of underschooling is at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129097
Cover Image
Analyzing the Extent and Influence of Occupational Licensing on the Labor Market
Kleiner, Morris M. - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129916
Cover Image
The Labor Market Value to Legal Status
Lozano, Fernando A. - 2011
estimate the effect of the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) on immigrants' labor market outcomes using a triple … in labor market earnings of Mexican immigrants over the long run, and that nearly all of this increase is in the … able to obtain. We estimate the model for immigrants from other countries not benefiting from IRCA to the extent that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129929
Cover Image
In-Work Benefits and Unemployment
Tonin, Mirco - 2011
wages are fixed. We also account for the financing of these benefits and determine the level of benefits necessary to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130454