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The Effect of Tuition Reimbursement on Turnover : A Case Study Analysis
Flaherty, Colleen N. - 2007
Tuition reimbursement programs provide financial assistance for direct costs of education and are a type of general skills training program commonly offered by employers in the United States. Standard human capital theory argues that investment in firm-specific skills reduces turnover, while...
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The Changing Structure of Wages in the US and Germany : What Explains the Differences?
Beaudry, Paul - 2000
Over the last twenty years the wage-education relationships in the US and Germany have evolved very differently, while the education composition of employment has evolved in a surprisingly parallel fashion. In this paper, we propose and test an explanation to these conflicting patterns. The...
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A Cross-Cohort Analysis of Human Capital Specialization and the College Gender Wage Gap
Sloane, Carolyn - 2019
sorting conditional on major choice. We highlight that women both choose majors with lower potential earnings (based on male … wages associated with those majors) and that they then subsequently sort into occupations with lower potential earnings … choose majors and occupations with lower potential earnings. Differences in undergraduate major choice explains a substantive …
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Does the Sector Bias of Skill-Biased Technical Change Explain Changing Wage Inequality?
Haskel, Jonathan E. - 1998
This paper examines whether the sector bias of skill-biased technical change (sbtc) explains changing skill premia within countries in recent decades. First, using a two-factor, two-sector, two-country model we demonstrate that in many cases it is the sector bias of sbtc that determines sbtc's...
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Regional Distribution and Dynamics of Human Capital in China 1985-2014 : Education, Urbanization, and Aging of the Population
Li, Haizheng - 2016
-Fraumeni human capital measurement framework and modify it to estimate provincial level human capital in China. We produce a …
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What is Different About Urbanization in Rich and Poor Countries? Cities in Brazil, China, India and the United States
Chauvin, Juan Pablo - 2016
correlation between density and earnings is stronger in both China and India than in the U.S., strongest in China. In India the … American metropolitan areas with comparable geographic units in Brazil, China and India. Both Gibrat's Law and Zipf's Law seem … to hold as well in Brazil as in the U.S., but China and India look quite different. In Brazil and China, the implications …
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The Role of Wage and Skill Differences in US-German Employment Differences
Freeman, Richard B. - 2000
Greater job creation in the US than in Germany has often been related to greater wage dispersion coupled with less regulated labour and product markets in the US. Based on the Comparative German American Structural Database and the International Adult Literacy Survey we find that employment of...
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Education Driving the Rise in Dutch Female Employment: Explanations for the Increase in Part-time Work and Female Employment in the Netherlands, Contrasted with Germany
Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - 2001
Over the last 15 years, the Netherlands has experienced a tremendous jobs boom, mainly in services and female employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch institutional environment. Using a model which allows for direct utility of work, we find that institutional arrangements...
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Trade, Human Capital, and Income Risk
Deng, Liuchun; Krishna, Pravin; Senses, Mine Zeynep; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
workers with higher levels of industry tenure more than it does for workers with lower levels of industry tenure. High levels …
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Tied Wage-Hours Offers and the Endogeneity of Wages
Lundberg, Shelly J. - 1984
In the standard model of labor supply, each worker is a price taker,where the relevant price is an hourly wage rate which is fixed in the short run, and which does not depend upon the number of hours supplied. With this basic assumption, the wage can be regarded as exogenous for the purpose of...
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