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substitution of low education / high experience workers by low experience / high education workers by using US and French microdata … explain the changes in returns to experience. It also accounts for a part of the increase in returns to education between 1980 …: the elasticity of substitution between experience and education, which is found to be less than half. In France, the …
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cohorts of the baby-boom. Using a survey where workers declare their true employment experience, this paper argues that these … labor force, there is higher unemployment among low-experience workers, they do not accumulate enough on-the-job human … even after the shock. In a competitive market, in contrast, wage inequality and notably, the wage return to experience …
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cohorts of the baby-boom. Using a survey where workers declare their true employment experience, this paper argues that these … labor force, there is higher unemployment among low-experience workers, they do not accumulate enough on-the-job human … even after the shock. In a competitive market, in contrast, wage inequality and notably, the wage return to experience …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233758
We examine the dynamic role of education and experience as determinants of wages. It is hypothesized that an employee …'s education is an important signal to the employer initially. Over time, the returns to schooling should decrease with labor … market experience and increase with initially unobserved ability, since the employer gradually obtains better information on …
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We examine the dynamic role of education and experience as determinants of wages. It is hypothesized that an employee …'s education is an important signal to the employer initially. Over time, the returns to schooling should decrease with labor … market experience and increase with initially unobserved ability, since the employer gradually obtains better information on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703658
In this paper, we study the development and underlying drivers of skill premiums in Germany between 1980 and 2008. We show that the significant increase in the medium to low skill wage premiums since the late 1980s was almost exclusively concentrated among the group of workers aged 30 or below....
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This paper presents new evidence on the causal relationship between fertility and female labor supply. We particularly focus on how informal employment affects post-fertility labor supply behavior of mothers. We employ an instrumental variable strategy based on an unused data source for twin...
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It is well-established that Arab labor markets share certain common characteristics, including an oversized public sector, high unemployment for educated youth, weak private sector dependent on government welfare for their survival, rapid growth in educational attainment, but much of it focused...
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The previous literature has shown that children who enter school at a more advanced age outperform their younger classmates on competency tests taken between kindergarten and Grade 10. This study analyzes whether these effects of school starting age continue into adulthood. Based on data on math...
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markets in developing countries are likely to grow further as teacher quality becomes a greater focus of education policy …
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