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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 …

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Francesconi, Marco; Booth, Alison L.; Zoega, Gylfi - 2003

coverage on work-related training and how the union-training link affects wages and wage growth for a sample of full-time men …

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Class Ridden or Meritocratic? An Economic Analysis of Recent Changes in Britain

Galindo-Rueda, Fernando; Vignoles, Anna - 2003

In a meritocratic society an individual's economic success is determined by their ability, not by their parents' socio-economic status. We assess whether meritocracy has increased in both the British education system and labour market. The richness of our longitudinal data enables us to look at...

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Labour as a Buffer: Do Temporary Workers Suffer?

Francesconi, Marco; Booth, Alison L.; Frank, Jeff - 2003

In this paper, we investigate whether or not there is an equal opportunities dimension to regulating equal pay and conditions for temporary work. We develop a ?buffer stock? model of temporary work that suggests a number of reasons why ethnic minorities and women may be more likely to be on...

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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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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 … small effects on natives? wages and no dominant robust patterns of substitution and complementarity. Effects on wages of …

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Why Do Firms Train? Empirical Evidence on the First Labour Market Outcomes of Graduated Apprentices

Euwals, Rob; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2001

find that apprentices staying with their training firm after graduation have (1) higher wages and (2) longer first …

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Wage Rigidities in Western Germany?

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2001

stability of educational wage premia was justified by market forces. However, relative wages did not respond to negative net …

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Flexible Work Systems and the Structure of Wages: Evidence from Matched Employer- Employee Data

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan - 2001

(HPWOs) on wages. This paper makes use of a new employer-employee-linked panel data set for Germany to examine the effects of … adopting HPWOs on wages as well as on the wage structure within firms. The empirical results suggest that, depending on the … particular practice, flexible workplace systems benefit employees through higher wages. HPWOs further increase within firm wage …

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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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