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The Sources of Wage Growth in a Developing Country
Marinescu, Ioana E.; Triyana, Margaret - 2015
is 24 to 29%, which is higher than the return to experience. Furthermore, we estimate a 35% return to ten years of tenure … in the formal sector, with no significant return to tenure in the informal sector. The difference in the sources of wage …
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Women in Economics: Stalled Progress
Lundberg, Shelly; Stearns, Jenna - 2018
publishing, promotion, and tenure. While underlying gender differences can directly affect the relative productivity of men and …
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Tenure-based Wage Setting
Hart, Robert A.; Ritchie, Felix - 1999
We provide empirical support for the contention that within-job wage growth relates purely to job-specific performance and that returns to general experience are assessed at the point of job change. Using the British New Earnings Survey panel data we identify job changes that take place both...
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Earnings tenure profiles: tests of agency and human capital theories using individual performance data
Dong, Xiao-yuan; Jones, Derek C.; Kato, Takao - 2007
the most rigorous evidence to date on several related dimensions of enduring debates surrounding upward-sloping earnings-tenure … in accounting for upward-sloping earnings-tenure profiles; our findings strongly support the agency view. Our second area … find that earnings-tenure profiles for employee owners are not upward-sloping but horizontal. In addition we find that pay …
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Have labour market reforms at the turn of the millennium changed job durations of the new entrants? A comparative study for Germany and Italy
Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Jaenichen, Ursula; Villosio, … - 2009
According to the aims of the labour market reforms of the 90s implemented in many European countries, workers may stay at their first job for a shorter time, but should be able to switch jobs easily. This would generate a trade-off between job opportunities and job stability. This paper...
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Employer Learning and the Returns to Schooling
Bauer, Thomas K.; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2000
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...
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Bonus payments, hierarchy levels and tenure: Theoretical considerations and empirical evidence
Grund, Christian; Kräkel, Matthias - 2010
Using data on executive compensation for the German chemical industry, we investigate the relevance of two theoretical approaches that focus on bonuses as part of a long term wage policy of a firm. The first approach argues that explicit bonuses serve as substitutes for implicit career concerns....
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Tenure, wage profiles and monitoring
Sessions, John G.; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2008
We investigate the relationship between the slope of the wage-tenure profile and the level of monitoring across two … a decline in the slope of the wage-tenure profile. Our empirical analysis provides strong support for this prediction. …
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The Shifting Job Tenure Distribution
Hyatt, Henry R.; Spletzer, James R. - 2016
There has been a shift in the U.S. job tenure distribution toward longer-duration jobs since 2000. This change is … apparent both in the tenure supplements to the Current Population Survey and the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics … decline in the entry rate of new employer businesses. We show that the tenure distribution is a function of historical hiring …
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Bias and Careers: Evidence from the Aid Effectiveness Literature
Doucouliagos, Chris; Hinz, Thomas; Zigova, Katarina - 2020
the careers of 190 authors and apply meta-regression analysis to investigate the impact of authors' age and tenure status … average, authors without tenure report much larger effects and they also exhibit substantial publication selection bias. These …
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