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wages to reflect this. Formal analysis supports the intuition. We use the dispersion of exam grades within a field of … education as an indicator of the heterogeneity that employers face. We find solid evidence that starting wages are lower if the … variance of exam grades is higher and that starting wages are lower if the skew is higher: employers shift quality risk to new …
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Using nationally representative, longitudinal data from the first 14 waves of the British Household Panel Survey we examine the labour market returns to inter-regional migration in Great Britain. Controlling for endogeneity, heterogeneity and self-selection, we find substantial long-run wage...
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, employer change, quits, training, wages, and job satisfaction). …
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transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude …
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concerns on economic outcomes. We also review evidence from laboratory and field experiments examining the role of wages and … fairness on effort, derive predictions from our approach for entry-level wages and incumbent workers' wages, confront these …
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Using nationally representative data in China, we find substantial positive partial correlations of both parents' education with one's wage. In addition, returns to father's education are higher in more monopsonistic and less meritocratic labor markets, including non-coastal regions, the...
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but also analyze its effect on post-unemployment wages and job stability for unemployed Danish workers. We find evidence … permanent posts. Finally, our results suggest that agency employment may improve subsequent match quality in terms of wages and …
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For nearly 50 years academics have been studying how labor markets affect crime. The initial interesting and important theoretical and empirical work generated substantial interest in studying crime among economists, in particular, and scholars in the social sciences more broadly. This...
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positive wage effect of about the same size. The wages of females are not affected by smoking and drinking. …
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The standard human-capital model is based on the assumption that the observed wage of an individual is equal to the monetary value of the individual net human-capital productivity, the so-called net potential wage. We argue that this assumption is rejected by the ECHP data for Belgium, Denmark...
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