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Frederiksen, Anders; Westergård-Nielsen, Niels Christian - 2002

We study individual job-separations and their associated destination states for all individuals in the private sector in Denmark for the period 1980 to 1995 and account for the cyclical flows. We find that individual and workplace characteristics as well as business cycle effects are important...

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Firm-Sponsored General Training in Frictional Labour Markets : An Empirical Analysis for Switzerland

Gerfin, Michael - 2004

According to the classical human capital theory general training is entirely financed by workers. This prediction is at odds with the empirical evidence. This observation inspired new theoretical models of training in frictional labour market. These frictions create incentives for firms to...

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To Teach or Not to Teach? : Panel Data Evidence on the Quitting Decision

Price, Stephen Wheatley; Shields, Michael A.; Frijters, Paul - 2004

The question we address in this paper is which factors influence the quitting decision of public sector teachers in England and Wales, using a nationally representative panel data set over 1997-2003. We document the outcomes of former teachers, fit single and competingrisks duration models and...

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German Job Mobility and Wages

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998

The paper investigates the relative importance of job mobility for wages in comparison with the human capital framework …

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Starting wages respond to employer's risk

Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop - 2007

wages to reflect this. Formal analysis supports the intuition. We use the dispersion of exam grades within a field of … education as an indicator of the heterogeneity that employers face. We find solid evidence that starting wages are lower if the … variance of exam grades is higher and that starting wages are lower if the skew is higher: employers shift quality risk to new …

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A note on risk aversion and labour market outcomes: further evidence from German survey data

Pfeifer, Christian - 2008

, employer change, quits, training, wages, and job satisfaction). …

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Labor market entry conditions, wages and job mobility

Bachmann, Ronald; Bauer, Thomas K.; David, Peggy - 2010

Economic conditions at the time of labour market entry can induce wage differentials between workers entering the labour market at different points in time. While the existence and persistence of these entry wage differentials are well documented, little is known about their interaction with...

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Dismissals for cause: the difference that just eight paragraphs can make

Martins, Pedro Silva - 2007

effects on worker flows. However, firm performance improves considerably while wages fall. Overall, the results suggest that …

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Worker Displacement During the Transition : Experience from Slovenia

Orazem, Peter F.; Vodopivec, Milan; Wu, Ruth - 2004

The transition to market in Slovenia created labor displacements that were on par or greater than that experienced in North America in the 1980s. A simple theoretical model suggests that factors which raise the probability of layoff should also increase the probability of a quit, predictions...

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Wage premia for newly hired employees: Theory and evidence

Kampkötter, Patrick; Sliwka, Dirk - 2011

employees care for wages as well as match-specific utility, incumbents earn less than new recruits if and only if firm …

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