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The Returns to Cognitive Abilities and Personality Traits in Germany

Heineck, Guido; Anger, Silke - In: Labour Economics 17 (2010) 3, pp. 535-546

earnings for Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we employ scores from an ultra-short IQ-test and a …' wages only. Findings for personality traits are more heterogeneous. However, there is a robust wage penalty for an external …

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Wealth effects on job preferences

Haywood, Luke - In: Labour Economics 38 (2016), pp. 1-11

Preferences over jobs depend on wages and non-wage aspects. Variation in wealth may change the importance of income as …

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Migration and gender differences in the home labour market: Evidence from Albania

Mendola, Mariapia; Carletto, Calogero - In: Labour Economics 19 (2012) 6, pp. 870-880

This paper examines the role of migration in affecting the labour market opportunities of male and female household members left behind. We address this question by analyzing the impact of international migration flows from Albania, where migration is a massive and male-dominated phenomenon. We...

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Egyptian men working abroad: Labour supply responses by the women left behind

Binzel, Christine; Assaad, Ragui - In: Labour Economics 18 (2011) S1, pp. 98-98

Female labour force participation has remained low in Egypt. This paper examines whether male international migration provides a leeway for women to enter the labour market and/or to increase their labour supply. In line with previous studies, we find a decrease in wage work particularly in...

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The family gap in wages: What wombmates reveal

Simonsen, Marianne; Skipper, Lars - In: Labour Economics 19 (2012) 1, pp. 102-112

We shed new light on the effects of having children on hourly wages by exploiting access to data on the entire … amount of hours off due to holidays and sickness. Our results suggest that childbearing reduces female hourly wages but the …

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Social welfare and wage inequality in search equilibrium with personal contacts

Zaharieva, Anna - In: Labour Economics 23 (2013) C, pp. 107-121

word-of-mouth communication. Wages are then negotiated ex-post between the firm and the applicant, so the model can … economy with weak ties. There are two reasons for the inefficiency. First, workers bargaining over wages do not internalize … externality puts an upward pressure on wages so the market tightness in the referral market is distorted downwards. Second, weak …

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Nash bargaining and the wage consequences of educational mismatches

Sattinger, Michael; Hartog, Joop - In: Labour Economics 23 (2013) C, pp. 50-56

The paper provides a theoretical foundation for the empirical regularities observed in estimations of wage consequences of overeducation and undereducation. Workers with more education than required for their jobs are observed to suffer wage penalties relative to workers with the same education...

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Quit behavior and the role of job protection

Gielen, Anne C.; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - In: Labour Economics 19 (2012) 4, pp. 624-632

wages compared to stayers. This evidence can be explained by increased mobility costs associated with higher expected risk …

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Exporting, skills and wage inequality

Klein, Michael W.; Moser, Christoph; Urban, Dieter M. - In: Labour Economics 25 (2013) C, pp. 76-85

International trade has been cited as a source of widening wage inequality in industrial nations. Most previous empirical evidence supports this claim by showing an effect in which increasing exports tilt demand towards firms which export and employ a relatively large proportion of...

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Immigrant economic assimilation: Evidence from UK longitudinal data between 1978 and 2006

Lemos, Sara - In: Labour Economics 24 (2013) C, pp. 339-353

Using the underexplored, sizeable and long Lifetime Labour Market Database (LLMDB) we estimate the immigrant–native earnings gap at entry and over time for the UK between 1978 and 2006. That is, we attempt to separately estimate cohort and assimilation effects. We also estimate the associated...

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