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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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What makes you "super-rich"? New evidence from an analysis of football players' earnings
Carrieri, Vincenzo; Principe, Francesco; Raitano, Michele - 2017
This article investigates the influence of performance, popularity and power on "superearnings" using a unique panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011619908
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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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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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Training, wages and a missing school graduation cohort
Dorner, Matthias; Görlitz, Katja - 2020
This study analyzes the effects of a missing high school graduation cohort on firms' training provision and trainees' wages. An exogenous school reform varying at the state and year level caused the missing cohort to occur. Using administrative social security data on all trainees and training...
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On the measurement of tasks: Does expert data get it right?
Storm, Eduard - 2022
performance of various models offers guidance for future research regarding choice of task data and construction of task measures. …
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Task specialization and the native-foreign wage gap: Evidence from worker-level data
Storm, Eduard - 2021
Running RIF regressions to decompose wage differences along the distribution, this is the first study documenting that worker-level variation in tasks has played a key role in the widening of the German Native-Foreign Wage Gap. Comparing variation in Individual- vs Occupation-level task measures...
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