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Hart, Robert A.; Ritchie, Felix - 1999

We provide empirical support for the contention that within-job wage growth relates purely to job-specific performance … and that returns to general experience are assessed at the point of job change. Using the British New Earnings Survey …

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Tenure-based Wage Setting

Hart, Robert A.; Ritchie, Felix - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

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Paid and Unpaid Overtime Working in Germany and the UK

Hübler, Olaf; Hart, Robert A.; Bell, David N.F.; … - 2000

wage growth equations that accounting for unpaid work leads to revised estimates of experience and tenure both within and …

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Why Do Firms Pay an Overtime Premium?

Hart, Robert A.; Ma, Yue - 2000

We develop a rationale for the payment by firms of a wage premium on marginal, or overtime, weekly hours. We examine wage-hours contracts within the framework of a two-period specific human capital model with asymmetric information. The wage premium serves to achieve contract efficiency. For...

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Worker-Job Matches, Job Mobility, and Real Wage Cyclicality

Hart, Robert A. - 2003

Using the British New Earnings Survey Panel Data from 1980 to 2001, this paper examines male and female real wage … stayers by length of job tenure, (c) examining the cyclicality of the average overtime premium, (d) distinguishing between … hourly wage earnings and hourly wage rates. Wage cyclicality in Britain is found to be significantly greater than comparable …

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Exporting Firms Do Not Pay Higher Wages, Ceteris Paribus : First Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Wagner, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus; Schank, Thorsten - 2004

18 studies using data from 20 highly developed, developing, and less developed countries document that average wages in exporting firms are higher than in non-exporting firms from the same industry and region. The existence of these so-called exporter wage premia is one of the stylized facts...

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Establishment Age and Wages: Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data

Kölling, Arnd; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2002

Research in wage differentials has a long tradition. Prominent reasons why people make more or less money in the labor market include personal characteristics of the employee (e.g., human capital or gender), job characteristics (working conditions demanding compensating wage differentials), and...

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On the Cyclicality and Stability of Real Earnings

Hart, Robert A.; Malley, James R. - 1999

) average hourly earnings into their straight-time hourly wage and overtime components. Our motivation is based on the idea of … employment-contingent contracts. BLS published and unpublished statistics are used to decompose average earnings into (i) the … straight-time wage rate, (ii) the ?mark-up? needed to achieve an overtime worker?s earnings rate, and (iii) the proportion of …

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Average wage, qualification of the workforce and export performance in German enterprises: Evidence from KombiFiD data

Wagner, Joachim - 2012

Empirical investigations with enterprise level data from official statistics often use the average wage as a proxy variable for the qualification of the workforce, mostly due to the lack of detailed information on the qualification of the employees. This paper uses unique newly available data...

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Real wage cyclicality of job stayers, within-company job movers, and between-company job movers

Devereux, Paul J.; Hart, Robert A. - 2005

Using the British New Earnings Survey Panel Data (NESPD) for the period 1975 to 2001 we estimate the wage cyclicality …

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