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Cohort size effects on wages, working status, and work time

Okoampah, Sarah - 2016

This paper estimates the effects of cohort size on wages, employment and work time for workers in Germany. The empirical findings suggest that male workers with medium and high degrees of occupational specialization who were born at the peak of the baby boom earn at least 5.3% lower wages than...

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Coworker networks from student jobs: A flying start at labor market entry?

Demir, Gökay; Hertweck, Friederike; Sandner, Malte; … - 2024

over time as students with worse networks catch up. Our findings contribute to the understanding of how early career …

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The role of within-occupation task changes in wage development

Bachmann, Ronald; Demir, Gökay; Green, Colin; … - 2022

We examine how changes in task content over time condition occupational wage development. Using survey data from Germany, we document substantial heterogeneity in within-occupational changes in task content. Combining this evidence with administrative data on individual employment outcomes over...

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Skill mismatch and learning-by-doing: Theory and evidence from time allocation on tasks

Storm, Eduard - 2023

This paper studies wage effects and job mobility as a result of skill mismatch in worker- occupation pairs. I develop a Roy model in which learning on the job induces workers to shift more time towards job-specific activities. Using a short task panel containing data on worker's time allocation...

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Task returns and the gender pay gap

Storm, Eduard - 2023

Using worker-level task data, I explore if women's perceived comparative advantages in interactive tasks can contribute to a reduction in the gender pay gap. I find women receive lower returns to interactive tasks, even within occupations, despite increasing female employment shares in...

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Returns to Education in Europe – Detailed Results from a Harmonized Survey

Middendorf, Torge - 2008

We use the European Community Household Panel, a harmonized data set covering the countries of the European Union, to provide detailed estimates of the returns to education. Our results can be summarized as follows. Firstly, average returns to education have been mostly stable during the second...

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Risky Business – The Role of Individual Risk Attitudes in Occupational Choice

Isphording, Ingo E. - 2010

This study analyzes the relationship of individual risk attitudes and occupational sorting with respect to occupational earnings risk. By using the German Mikrozensus, a precise measure for earnings risk is computed as the occupation-wide standard deviation of wages. Following the procedure...

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Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation – An Analysis for Germany

Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K. - 2010

This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience...

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Continuous Training and Wages – An Empirical Analysis Using a Comparison-group Approach

Görlitz, Katja - 2010

Using German linked employer-employee data, this paper investigates the impact of on-the-job training on wages. The applied estimation technique was first introduced by Leuven and Oosterbeek (2008). The idea is to compare wages of employees who intended to participate in training but did not do...

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Educational mismatch and mobility

Roller, Christiane; Rulff, Christian; Tamminga, Michael M. - 2019

the same job. The career mobility model suggests that this is indeed the case, with overeducated workers being more prone … to take up on-the-job training, to climb up the career ladder, or to eventually leave to professions more suitable to … qualifizierten Kollegen in der gleichen Tätigkeit haben. Nach dem "Career Mobility Model" ist dies in der Tat der Fall, da …

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