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Overskilling Dynamics and Education Pathways
Mavromaras, Kostas G. - 2009
This paper uses panel data and econometric methods to estimate the incidence and the dynamic properties of overskilling among employed individuals. The paper begins by asking whether there is extensive overskilling in the labour market, and whether overskilling differs by education pathway. The...
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Explaining Cross-National Variation in Workplace Employee Representation
Forth, John - 2016
Across Europe, there are many differing opinions on whether workplace employee representation should be encouraged or discouraged. Yet there is very little evidence on the variations in workplace employee representation across Europe or the reasons for this. We use a workplace survey covering 27...
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Who Wants Flexibility? Changing Work Hours Preferences and Life Events
Drago, Robert W. - 2011
data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. We control for work hours preferences in …
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Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard
Arcidiacono, Peter - 2019
The lawsuit Students For Fair Admissions v. Harvard University provided an unprecedented look at how an elite school makes admissions decisions. Using publicly released reports, we examine the preferences Harvard gives for recruited athletes, legacies, those on the dean's interest list, and...
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Wage Premia for Newly Hired Employees : Theory and Evidence
Kampkötter, Patrick - 2011
We investigate wage differences between newly hired and incumbent employees. We show in a formal model that when … employees care for wages as well as match-specific utility, incumbents earn less than new recruits if and only if firm …
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Occupational Status and Health Transitions
Ribar, David - 2011
We use longitudinal data from the 1984 through 2007 waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine how occupational status is related to the health transitions of 30 to 59 year-old U.S. males. A recent history of blue-collar employment predicts a substantial increase in the probability...
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Are Older Workers Worthy of Their Pay? An Empirical Investigation of Age-Productivity and Age-Wage Nexuses
Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2010
Using longitudinal employer-employee data spanning over a 22-year period, we compare age-wage and age-productivity profiles and find that productivity increases until the age range of 50-54, whereas wages peak around the age 40-44. At younger ages, wages increase in line with productivity gains...
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Temporary Contracts and Monopsony Power in the UK Labour Market
Tabasso, Domenico - 2011
This paper addresses the applicability of the theory of equalizing differences (Rosen, 1987) in a market in which temporary and permanent workers co-exist. The assumption of perfect competition in the labour market is directly questioned and a model is developed in which the labour market is...
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Health Impaired Employees' Job Satisfaction : New Evidence from Athens, Greece
Drydakis, Nick - 2011
heath-impaired employees. Health impaired employees are found to be less satisfied according to all job satisfaction … show that health impaired employees' job satisfaction is affected more than healthy employees' job satisfaction by adverse … mental health symptoms (life dissatisfaction). Finally, health impaired employees are found to become more satisfied with …
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Managerial Valuation of Applicant Credentials and Personal Traits in Hiring Decisions
Jones, James R. - 2011
We study how managers value applicant credentials and personal traits in hiring decisions. Using the ordered probit model, we confirm previous results -managers rank applicant traits higher than credentials. However, we also uncover patterns not previously observed - managerial valuations of...
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