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The Long and Short of It : Maternity Leave Coverage and Women?s Labor Market Outcomes

Hashimoto, Masanori; Percy, Rick; Schoellner, Teresa; … - 2004

We investigate the effects of maternity leave coverage on women?s post-birth wages, job tenure, and labor market …

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The Promise of Workplace Training for Non-College-Bound Youth: Theory and Evidence from German Apprenticeship

Clark, Damon; Fahr, René - 2001

This paper assesses the potential of ?workplace training? with reference to German Apprenticeship. When occupational matching is important, we derive conditions under which firms provide ?optimal? training packages. Since the German system broadly meets these conditions, we evaluate the...

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Employment, Wages, and Alcohol Consumption in Russia: Evidence from Panel Data

Tekin, Erdal - 2002

This paper examines the effects of alcohol consumption on employment and wages for males and females in Russia. Both … impact on employment and wages. Further, there is some evidence in favor of an inverse U-shaped relationship between alcohol …

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The Part-Time Wage Penalty : A Career Perspective

Russo, Giovanni; Hassink, Wolter H.J. - 2005

Part-time employment has become an extremely popular work arrangement in the Netherlands because it renders employment compatible with non-work activities. We posit that there may be a downside to part-time employment, which is related to its negative effects on workers? career. This may be the...

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The effects of personality traits on adult labor market outcomes: Evidence from siblings

Fletcher, Jason M. - 2012

While large literatures have shown that cognitive ability and schooling increases employment and wages, an emerging … employment and wages and is also able to control for many other sources of heterogeneity, including attractiveness, cognitive …

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Differences in employment outcomes for college town stayers and leavers

Winters, John V. - 2012

experience less favorable employment outcomes along multiple dimensions. On average, stayers earn lower annual and hourly wages …

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Promotion and wages in mid-career: Gender, unionism, and sector

Addison, John T.; Ozturk, Orgul Demet; Wang, Si - 2012

This paper considers the role of gender in the promotion process and the impact of promotion on wages and wage growth …, using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79). Its focus is upon mid-career promotion and wages … promoted in the private sector (and no less likely in the public sector); that wages are increasing in promotion, and the …

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Estimating gender differences in access to jobs

Gobillon, Laurent; Meurs, Dominique; Roux, Sébastien - 2012

This paper proposes a new measure of gender differences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure is the probability ratio of getting a job for females and males at each rank of the wage ladder. We derive a non-parametric estimator of this access measure and estimate it for...

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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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IAB Employment Subsample 1975-1995 Opportunities for Analysis Provided by the Anonymised Subsample

Klose, Christoph; Haas, Anette; Bender, Stefan - 2000

The IAB employment subsample is now available for researchers in a third, anonymised version. Following the so-called basic file and the regional file from the IAB employment subsample, which encompassed the years 1975 to 1990, the actualized version of the basic file covers now the years 1975...

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