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Local employer competition and training of workers : conference paper

Rzepka, Sylvi; Tamm, Marcus - 2014

The new training literature suggests that in a monopsonistic market employers will not only pay for firm-specific training but also for general training if the risk of poaching is limited. This implies that training participation should decrease when competition for employees is higher among...

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Heterogeneous effects of high school peers on educational outcomes

Mendolia, Silvia; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; Walker, Ian - 2016

We investigate the relationship between peers’ abilities and educational outcomes at the end of high school using data from the rich Longitudinal Study of Young People in England (LSYPE) matched to the National Pupil Database of children in state schools in England. In particular, we focus on...

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The gender gap in STEM : (female) teenagers' ICT skills and subsequent career paths

Hertweck, Friederike; Lehner, Judith - 2023

Skills shortage in the fields of Sciences, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) poses a significant challenge for industries globally. This study examines the interrelationship between high school students’ gender, their proficiency in Information and Communication Technology (ICT),...

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Automation, offshoring, and the role of public policies

Schmidpeter, Bernhard; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2019

We provide comprehensive evidence on the consequences of automation and offshoreability on the career of unemployed workers and the role of public policies. Using almost two decades of administrative data for Austria, we find that risk of automation is reducing the job finding probability; a...

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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

dominates all the other factors at the right tail of earnings distribution and the agent's power contributes mostly to allocate … players in richer teams. These new findings challenge the interpretations of super-earnings based only on very talented …

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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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The long-term effects of long terms compulsory schooling reforms in Sweden

Fischer, Martin; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese; … - 2017

We evaluate the impact on earnings, pensions, and further labor market outcomes of two parallel educational reforms …

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Risky business : the role of individual risk attitudes in occupational choice

Isphording, Ingo E. - 2010

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 proposed by Bonin (2007), this earnings risk measure is used as dependent variable … effects of personality traits in labor market decisions. -- Risk attitudes ; occupational sorting ; earnings risk ; mundlak …

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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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Wage differentials by field of study : the case of German university graduates

Görlitz, Katja; Grave, Barbara S. - 2012

Using data on German university graduates, this paper analyzes wage differentials by field of study at labor market entry and five to six years later. At both points in time, graduates from Arts and Humanities have lower average monthly wages compared to other fields of study. Blinder-Oaxaca...

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