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Nash Bargaining and the Wage Consequences of Educational Mismatches

Hartog, Joop; Sattinger, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

The paper provides a theoretical foundation for the empirical regularities observed in estimations of wage consequences of overeducation and undereducation. Workers with more education than required for their jobs are observed to suffer wage penalties relative to workers with the same education...

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The Changing Benefits of Early Work Experience

Baum, Charles L.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We examine whether the benefits of high school work experience have changed over the last 20 years by comparing effects for the 1979 and 1997 cohorts of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Our main specifications suggest that the future wage benefits of working 20 hours per week in the...

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The Effect of Overskilling Dynamics on Wages

Mavromaras, Kostas G.; Mahuteau, Stéphane; Sloane, Peter J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We use a random effects dynamic probit model to estimate the effect of overskilling dynamics on wages. We find that overskilling mismatch is common and more likely among those who have been overskilled in the past. It is also highly persistent, in a manner that is inversely related to...

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The Winner Takes It All: Internal Migration, Education and Wages in Ethiopia

Blunch, Niels-Hugo; Laderchi, Caterina Cruggeri - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Previous studies of migration have mainly examined international dynamics. Yet, internal migration is an important issue, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using the 2001 Ethiopia Child Labor Survey, a nationally representative household survey, this paper examines internal migration in...

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Mobility across Firms and Occupations among Graduates from Apprenticeship

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Licklederer, Stefanie; Zwiener, Hanna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Distinguishing carefully between mobility across firms and across occupations, this study provides causal estimates of the wage effects of mobility among graduates from apprenticeship in Germany. Our instrumental variables approach exploits variation in regional labor market characteristics....

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The Quest for More and More Education: Implications for Social Mobility

Lindley, Joanne; Machin, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

In this paper, we discuss the quest for more and more education and its implications for social mobility. We document very rapid educational upgrading in Britain over the last thirty years or so and show that this rise has featured faster increases in education acquisition by people from...

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The Effects of Personality Traits on Adult Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Siblings

Fletcher, Jason M - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

While large literatures have shown that cognitive ability and schooling increases employment and wages, an emerging literature examines the importance of so-called "non-cognitive skills" in producing labor market outcomes. However, this smaller literature has not typically used causal methods in...

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Are Occupations Paid What They Are Worth? An Econometric Study of Occupational Wage Inequality and Productivity

Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

productivity. The empirical evidence on the validity of this assumption is surprisingly thin and subject to various potential … productivity-wage gaps. They find that occupations play distinct roles for remuneration and productivity: while the estimations … indicate a significant upward-sloping occupational wage-profile, the hypothesis of a flat productivity-profile cannot be …

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Mind the Gap: A Detailed Picture of the Immigrant-Native Earnings Gap in the UK Using Longitudinal Data Between 1978 and 2006

Lemos, Sara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Using the underexplored, sizeable and long Lifetime Labour Market Database (LLMDB) we estimated the immigrant-native earnings gap across the entire earnings distribution, across continents of nationality and across cohorts of arrival in the UK between 1978 and 2006. We exploited the longitudinal...

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Work and Wage Dynamics around Childbirth

Ejrnæs, Mette; Kunze, Astrid - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This study investigates how the first childbirth affects the wage processes of highly attached women. We estimate a flexible fixed effects wage regression model extended with post-birth fixed effects by the control function approach. Register data on West Germany are used and we exploit the...

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