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What are the sources of wage growth in developing countries? In the US, general labor market experience is the key … is 24 to 29%, which is higher than the return to experience. Furthermore, we estimate a 35% return to ten years of tenure …
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hinges on prior job experience. Introducing sales-based performance pay for district- and later for store-managers, we find … performance pay decreases with experience and may even vanish in the limit. We provide empirical evidence in line with this … hypothesis, for instance, finding positive treatment effects (only) in stores with low job experience. …
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experience and technology adoption and the effect of technological change on the returns to experience. Estimates indicate that … technological change is an important explanation for changes in experience premia. We find a complementarity between existing human …
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and that returns to general experience are assessed at the point of job change. Using the British New Earnings Survey …
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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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We address the bias from using potential vs. actual experience in earnings models. Statistical tests reject the …. We correct for this by modeling actual experience as a stochastic regressor and predicting experience using the NLSY79 … and the PSID. Predicted experience measures are applied to the IPUMS. Our results suggest that potential experience biases …
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that this provides an upper bound estimate of the contribution of changes in work experience and other post …
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Using an open-ended contingent valuation survey, we analyze how (i) experience of a power outage due to one of the … worst storms ever to hit Sweden and (ii) a cheap talk script affect respondents' WTP to avoid power outages. Experience …
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We examine the dynamic role of education and experience as determinants of wages. It is hypothesized that an employee … market experience and increase with initially unobserved ability, since the employer gradually obtains better information on …
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