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Employee training and wage dispersion: white and blue collar workers in Britain

Almeida-Santos, Filipe; Chzhen, Yekaterina; Mumford, Karen - 2010

We use household panel data to explore the wage returns associated with training incidence and intensity (duration) for British employees. We find these returns differ depending on the nature of the training; who funds the training; the skill levels of the recipient (white or blue collar); the...

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Ethnic competition and specialization

Kahanec, Martin - 2007

Are ethnic specialization and thus a downward sloping labor demand curve fundamental features of labor market competition between ethnic groups? In a general equilibrium model, this paper argues that spillover effects in skill acquisition and social distances between ethnic groups engender...

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Wage Differentials in the 1990s in Israel : Endowments, Discrimination, and Selectivity

Neuman, Shoshana; Oaxaca, Ronald L. - 2004

The purpose of this paper is to investigate wage structures of professional workers in the Israeli labor market, using data from the most recent 1995 Census and correcting for selectivity at the stage of entrance into the occupation. The sample of professionals is decomposed into several...

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Qualifications, Discrimination, or Assimilation? An Extended Framework for Analysing Immigrant Wage Gaps

Skyt Nielsen, Helena; Rosholm, Michael; Smith, Nina; … - 2001

In this paper, we analyze immigrant wage gaps and propose an extension of the traditional wage decomposition technique, which is a synthesis from two strains of literature on ethnic/immigrant wage differences, namely the ?assimilation literature? and the ?discrimination literature?. We estimate...

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Glass ceilings or glass doors? Wage disparity within and between firms

Pendakur, Krishna; Woodcock, Simon - 2009

We investigate whether immigrant and minority workers' poor access to high-wage jobs - that is, glass ceilings - is attributable to poor access to jobs in high-wage firms, a phenomenon we call glass doors. Our analysis uses linked employer-employee data to measure mean- and quantile-wage...

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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 exporting firms are higher than in non-exporting firms from the same industry and region. The existence of these so-called exporter wage premia is one of the stylized facts...

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Search and offshoring in the presence of animal spirits

Mitra, Devashish; Ranjan, Priya - 2009

In this paper, we introduce two sources of unemployment in a two-factor general equilibrium model: search frictions and fairness considerations. We find that a binding fair-wage constraint increases the unskilled unemployment rate and can at the same time lead to a higher unemployment rate for...

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Overskilling dynamics and education pathways

Mavromaras, Kostas; McGuinness, Seamus; Fok, Yin King - 2009

This paper uses panel data and econometric methods to estimate the incidence and the dynamic properties of overskilling among employed individuals. The paper begins by asking whether there is extensive overskilling in the labour market, and whether overskilling differs by education pathway. The...

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Is informality bad? Evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa

Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - 2010

The informal sector plays an important role in the functioning of labor markets in emerging economies. To characterize better this highly heterogeneous sector, we conduct a distributional analysis of the earnings gap between informal and formal employment in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa,...

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Average wage, qualification of the workforce and export performance in German enterprises: Evidence from KombiFiD data

Wagner, Joachim - 2012

variable for the qualification of the workforce, mostly due to the lack of detailed information on the qualification of the … the qualification of the workforce. Furthermore, it demonstrates that detailed information on the qualification of the … workforce sheds new light on the role of highly qualified employees for success on export markets that is not revealed by the …

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