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From the cradle to the labor market? The effect of birth weight on adult outcomes
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2005
terms of educational attainment and earnings. However, recent research has called into question whether birth weight itself … as height, IQ, earnings, and education are significant and similar in magnitude to OLS estimates. Our estimates suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267621
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The Neighbourhood Is Not What It Used to Be
Raaum, Oddbjørn; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sørensen, Erik Ø. - 2003
important effects of family characteristics and residential location on educational attainment and adult earnings in Norway …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271751
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261930
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262131
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282156
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Wages and seniority when coworkers matter: estimating a joint production economy using Norwegian administrative data
Ferrall, Christopher; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sørensen, … - 2009
workforce. Seniority affects wages through workplace output and relative bargaining power. These channels are separately … important. Seniority affects bargaining power but is unproductive. We reinterpret gender and firm-size effects in wages in light …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269360
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Too young to leave the nest? The effects of school starting age
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2008
pregnancy, and earnings. Unlike much of the recent literature, we are able to separate school starting age from test age effects …. There appears to be a short-run positive effect on earnings of beginning school at a younger age; however, this effect has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268720
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Job Loss and Regional Mobility
Huttunen, Kristiina; Moen, Jarle; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2015
It is well documented that displaced workers suffer severe earnings losses, but not why this is so. One reason may be … siblings when they live in different regions. Looking at earnings we find that the entire post displacement income difference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481683
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The Neighbourhood Is Not What It Used to Be
Raaum, Oddbjørn; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sørensen, Erik Ø. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
important effects of family characteristics and residential location on educational attainment and adult earnings in Norway …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822567
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Too Young to Leave the Nest? The Effects of School Starting Age
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
pregnancy, and earnings. Unlike much of the recent literature, we are able to separate school starting age from test age effects …. There appears to be a short-run positive effect on earnings of beginning school at a younger age; however, this effect has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763749