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Compensating wage differentials for schooling risk in Denmark

Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Hartog, Joop; Skyt Nielsen, Helena - 2003

Danish population to calculate different measures of earnings risk by education. Our long panel data set also allows us to … decompose shocks in earnings in a permanent and a transitory component. We test the role of the risks associated to both … components in wage compensation. We also experiment with new measures of earnings risk based on transitory intertemporal …

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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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Is There a Risk-Return Trade-Off across Occupations? : Evidence from Spain

Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Hartog, Joop - 2004

We use data from Spain to test for an effect of earnings risk and skewness on individual wages. We carry out separate …

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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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The Effect of Immigration on Wages in Three European Countries

Hartog, Joop; Zorlu, Aslan - 2002

We extend the Altonji and Card (1991) framework for analysing the impact of immigrants on natives? wages from two to three labour types and estimate reduced form wage equations for The Netherlands, United Kingdom and Norway. We find very small effects on natives? wages and no dominant robust...

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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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It's the opportunity cost, stupid!: How self-employment responds to financial incentives of return, risk and skew

Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop; van Praag, Mirjam - 2011

There is no robust empirical support for the effect of financial incentives on the decision to work in self-employment rather than as a wage earner. In the literature, this is seen as a puzzle. We offer a focus on the opportunity cost, i.e. the wages given up as an employee. Information on...

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Overeducation, Wages and Promotions within the Firm

Groeneveld, Sandra; Hartog, Joop - 2003

We analyse data from personnel records of a large firm producing energy and telecommunication and test for the effect of deviations between required and attained education of workers. Required education is measured as hiring standards set by the firm. We find the usual effects of over- and...

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A risk augmented mincer earnings equation? Taking stock

Hartog, Joop - 2009

We survey the literature on the Risk Augmented Mincer equation that seeks to estimate the compensation for uncertainty in the future wage to be earned after completing an education. There is wide empirical support for the predicted positive effect of wage variance and the negative effect of wage...

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How important is homeland education for refugees' economic position in the Netherlands?

Hartog, Joop; Zorlu, Aslan - 2005

We use data on refugees admitted to the Netherlands that include registration of education in their homeland by immigration officers. Such data are seldom available. We investigate the quality and reliability of the registrations and then use them to assess effects on refugees' economic position...

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