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Training, mobility, and wages : specific versus general human capital

Garloff, Alfred (contributor); Kuckulenz, Anja (contributor) - 2005

This paper considers training, mobility decisions and wages together to test for the specificity of human capital contained in continuing training courses. We empirically analyse the relationship between training, mobility and wages in two ways. First, we examine the correlation between training...

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Real and monetary challenges to wage policy in Germany at the turn of the millennium : technical progress, globalization and European Monetary Union

Franz, Wolfgang - 1999

At the turn of the millennium three frequently cited potential causes of new challenges for wage policy in Germany are revisited in this study: skilled- biased technological progress, the increasing international integration of labor and product markets, and the monetary integration of the EMU....

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Monkey Bars and Ladders: The Importance of Lateral and Vertical Job Mobility in Internal Labor Market Careers

Dohmen, Thomas J.; Kriechel, Ben; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2003

The research area of the new economics of personnel has a short but important and insightful history. Theory ahead of measurement asks for testing newly developed human resource concepts. These tests often need detailed firm-specific data. Repetition and comparison of results is key in finding...

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Returns to tenure of seniority?

Buhai, I. Sebastian; Portela, Miguel; Teulings, Coen N.; … - 2008

, are the first to leave the firm (Last In, First Out; LIFO). Second, workers' wages rise with seniority (= a worker …'s tenure relative to the tenure of her colleagues). We seek to explain these regularities by developing a dynamic model of the … to seniority in wages. Efficiency in hiring requires the workers' bargaining power to be in line with their share in the …

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Are Immigrants Favorably Self-Selected? An Economic Analysis

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2000

criteria can ration visas on one or more characteristics that enhance labor market earnings (e.g., education), or on …

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Tenure, wage profiles and monitoring

Sessions, John G.; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2008

We investigate the relationship between the slope of the wage-tenure profile and the level of monitoring across two … a decline in the slope of the wage-tenure profile. Our empirical analysis provides strong support for this prediction. …

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FDI and wages: Evidence from firm-level and linked employer-employee data in Hungary, 1986 - 2008

Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos; Antal, Gábor - 2012

We estimate the wage effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) with universal firm-level and linked employer-employee panel data containing 4,926 foreign acquisitions in Hungary. Matching on pre-acquisition data and controlling for fixed effects for firms and detailed worker groups, we find...

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Earnings over the lifecycle: the Mincer earnings function and its applications

Polachek, Solomon W. - 2007

In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings are distributed across the population … research explained why education enhances earnings; why earnings rise at a diminishing rate throughout one's life; why earnings … questions based on research emanating from Mincer's original earnings function specification. …

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Descriptive evidence on labor market transitions and the wage structure in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor); … - 2005

Equilibrium search theory suggests that the wage distribution in a cross section of workers is closely related to labor market transitions and associated wage changes. Accordingly, jobtojob transitions are central in explaining the wage distribution. This paper uses the IAB employment subsample...

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Vocational training and gender : wages and occupational mobility among young workers

Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor); Kunze, Astrid (contributor) - 2005

This paper investigates the relationship between the gender wage gap, the choice of training occupation, and occupational mobility. We use longitudinal data for young workers with apprenticeship training in West Germany. Workers make occupational career choices early during their careers and...

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