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We investigate whether workers reallocate up firm productivity and wage job ladders, and the cyclicality of this process. We document that productivity is a better measure of the job ladder than the average wage, since high productivity firms relative to low poach more workers than high wage...
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This paper uses firm level panel data of firm provided training to estimate its impact on productivity and wages. To …
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Does interacting product and labor market regulation alter the impact of immigration on wages of competing native … that the wages of competing native West Germans respond negatively to the large influx of similar East German workers in …
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the productivity of workers aged 55 and more with at least an undergraduate degree is lower than their wages. For other … groups, we find that wages do not deviate significantly from productivity estimates …
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temporary help service firm that records both workers' wages and their productivity as measured by the fees charged to client … demonstrate that the fees charged to clients grow faster over workers' tenure than the wages paid to workers. Finally, we find …-by-doing increases productivity more than wages …
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important channel through which language skills affect wages of child migrants. Although the returns of adult migrants do not …
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In this paper, we analyze the connection between value added, wages, and labor market flows at the establishment level …
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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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How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and … wages. We find that firms value cognitive skills on average almost twice as much as interpersonal and manual skills, and … they prize complementarity in cognitive and interpersonal skills. The average return to VET skills in hourly wages is 9 …
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This paper studies the cyclical behaviour of earnings risk and career changes. We document that the procyclical skewness of the earnings growth distribution arises mostly from the earnings changes of employer and occupation switchers. To uncover their relative importance in driving cyclical...
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