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not match their educational level, settling for lower wages than their peers. This raises the question, how these …
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expectations and wages, and a significantly positive relationship between optimistic bias in job finding expectations and … search and matching model of the labor market. Removing the biases could substantially increase wages and expected lifetime …
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Wage growth is stronger in larger cities, but this relationship holds exclusively for non-manual workers. Using rich German administrative data, I study the heterogeneity in the pecuniary value of big city experience, a measure of dynamic agglomeration economies, and its consequences for the...
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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 so because of a random event with wages of training participants …
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This paper analyzes the effect of educational mismatch on wages in Germany, using data from the German Socio …
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Following the seminal work of Chiswick (1978), many studies have examined the extent to which earnings of immigrants vary over the settlement process. While these studies usually find that the initial earnings gap between native and immigrant workers in traditional immigration countries...
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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 so because of a random event with wages of training participants …
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' wages. An exogenous school reform varying at the state and year level caused the missing cohort to occur. Using … missing cohort increases training wages measured at the start of training. Further analyses shed light on the opposite case of … dual cohorts, which we find to increase training provision and to decrease training wages. The evidence also shows that …
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We show that providing publicly available wage information in vacancies, so-called external pay transparency, can reduce the gender wage gap. There is an increasing interest in pay transparency policies as a tool to combat unequal pay. We exploit a reform of Austria’s Equal Treatment Law to...
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. This suggests that firms and workers bargain frequently over wages, even in the absence of an outside job offer. Moreover … Foxconn's publicly announced wages. Investigating whether individuals act on their updated beliefs, I find evidence that …
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