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We comment on the work of Hanushek et al. (2015) and show that returns to skills are very heterogeneous and depend crucially on the tasks performed in the workplace, in line with the critique by Acemoglu and Autor (2011). Depending on the type of tasks performed at work, as well as on...
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This paper analyzes the effect of educational mismatch on wages, using a rich panel dataset of workers in the major …, we find that the wages of people aged under 35 basically depend on the level of education attained, while those of …
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effect of relative functional specialisation on wages and non-wage working conditions. In line with the GVC literature … functional specialisation patterns on wages in EU member states at the industry level across time. While relative functional … specialisation in fabrication tends to hold back wages, functional specialisation in R&D has a positive effect on wage progression …
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private institutions, and of schools with higher reputation earn higher wages. Even after controlling for all the …
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This paper studies the link between a firms education level, export performance and wages of its workers. We argue that … that firms with high export intensities pay higher wages. However, an interaction term between export intensity and skill … intensity has a positive impact on wages and it absorbs the direct effect of the export intensity. That is, we find an export …
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This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages. In contrast to the standard approach in the … intermediate goods, domestic outsourcing tends to increase wages for both unskilled and skilled labor. We use a panel data set of … workers in Danish manufacturing industries to show that domestic and foreign outsurcing affect wages as predicted by the …
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their labour market outcomes and their quality of life. We interpret the negative effect on wages as evidence of labour …
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We examine the impact of discrimination on labour market performance when workers are subject to a risk of losing skills during the experience of unemployment. Within a search and matching model, we show that all natives and immigrants are affected by discrimination. Discrimination in one sector...
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We examine the impact of discrimination on labour market performance when workers are subject to a risk of losing skills during an unemployment experience. Within a search and matching framework, we show that both natives and immigrants are affected by discrimination. Discrimination in one...
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wages for 26 European economies. To ease comparisons we make use of the European Union Statistics on Income and Living … Conditions inquiry released in 2009. The premium is found to be higher at the right tail of the distribution of wages, suggesting …
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