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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 … overeducated workers have a significantly higher probability to take up on-the-job training than adequately educated workers and …
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largely by different job and firm characteristics of graduates rather than individual or study-related characteristics. We … also find evidence that the less favorable job and firm characteristics of Arts and Humanities graduates at labor market …-Oaxaca-Dekomposition zeigt darüber hinaus, dass sich diese Lohnunterschiede insbesondere durch Unterschiede in Job- und Firmencharakteristika …
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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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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 of job tasks, I test the model’s implications and present three main …
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. Occupational mobility is strongly associated with earnings mobility, and occupation movers are more likely than job movers to …
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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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Using German linked employer-employee data, this paper investigates the impact of on-the-job training on wages. The …
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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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This study estimates separate selectivity bias corrected wage equations for formal and informal workers in rural and urban Mexico using data from the Mexican Family Life Survey (MxFLS). We control for different potential selection patterns using Probit and Multinominal logit models in the first...
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This study provides strong evidence for an increase in wage inequality induced by skillbiased technological change in the UK manufacturing industry between 1991 and 2006. Using individual level data from the BHPS and industry level data from the OECD, wage regressions are estimated which...
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