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The Impact of Labor Market Entry Conditions on Initial Job Assignment, Human Capital Accumulation, and Wages
Brunner, Beatrice - 2010
We estimate the effects of labor market entry conditions on wages for male individuals first entering the Austrian labor market between 1978 and 2000. We find a large negative effect of unfavorable entry conditions on starting wages as well as a sizeable negative long-run effect. Specifically,...
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Exports and Wages : Rent Sharing, Workforce Composition or Returns to Skills?
Macis, Mario - 2012
strategy exploits the 1992 devaluation of the Italian Lira, which represented a large and unforeseen shock to Italian firms … skills command a higher price after the devaluation – the "skill composition" effect. The latter effect only emerges once we … allow for the value of individual skills to differ in the pre- and post-devaluation periods. In fact, using a fixed measure …
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Trade, Quality Upgrading and Wage Inequality in the Mexican Manufacturing Sector
Verhoogen, Eric A. - 2021
motivate a high-quality workforce. An exchange-rate devaluation leads initially more-productive, higher-wage plants to increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316928
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Wage Dispersion and Firm Productivity in Different Working Environments
Mahy, Benoit - 2009
This paper investigates the impact of wage dispersion on firm productivity in different working environments. More precisely, it examines the interaction with: i) the skills of the workforce, using a more appropriate indicator than the standard distinction between white - and blue collar...
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Training, Human Capital, and Gender Gaps in Entrepreneurial Performance
Brixiova, Zuzana - 2019
In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, policymakers have been increasingly striving to support female entrepreneurship as a possible growth driver. This paper contributes to reconciling mixed findings in the literature on the effectiveness of entrepreneurial training with an analysis...
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Wages, Experience and Training of Women Over the Lifecycle
Blundell, Richard W. - 2019
We investigate the role of training in reducing the gender wage gap using the UK-BHPS which contains detailed records of training. Using policy changes over an 18 year period we identify the impact of training and work experience on wages, earnings and employment. Based on a lifecycle model and...
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The Gender Pay Gap Across Countries : A Human Capital Approach
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2014
The gender wage gap varies across countries. For example, among OECD nations women in Australia, Belgium, Italy and Sweden earn 80% as much as males, whereas in Austria, Canada and Japan women earn about 60%. Current studies examining cross-country differences focus on the impact of labor market...
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Explaining the Male Native-Immigrant Employment Gap in Sweden : The Role of Human Capital and Migrant Categories
Luik, Marc-André - 2016
Despite having one of the most celebrated labor market integration policies, the native-immigrant employment gap in Sweden is one of the largest among the OECD countries. In this study, we use unique Swedish register data to try to explain the employment gap between male immigrants and natives....
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Convergences in Men's and Women's Life Patterns : Lifetime Work, Lifetime Earnings, and Human Capital Investment
Jacobsen, Joyce P. - 2014
The changes in women and men's work lives have been considerable in recent decades. Yet much of the recent research on gender differences in employment and earnings has been of a more snapshot nature rather than taking a longer comparative look at evolving patterns. In this paper, we use 50...
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The Part-Time Wage Penalty in European Countries : How Large is it for Men?
O'Dorchai, Sile - 2007
Economic theory advances a number of reasons for the existence of a wage gap between part-time and full-time workers. Empirical work has concentrated on the wage effects of part-time work for women. For men, much less empirical evidence exists, mainly because of lacking data. In this paper, we...
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