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Going solo: how starting solo self-employment affects incomes and well-being
Cribb, Jonathan; Xu, Xiaowei - 2020
Using a large-scale panel data set, we trace the evolution of incomes and well-being around the entry into 'solo self-employment' - that is, running a business without employees. We find that solo self-employment is used to self-insure against employment shocks: employment rates fall and poverty...
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From the cradle to the grave : the effect of family background on the career path of Italian men
Raitano, Michele; Vona, Francesco - 2015
that an additional year of parental education increases sons' weekly wages by 11.7% after twenty years of experience and …
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The wage incentive to management : a comparison across European economies
Biagetti, Marco; Leonida, Leone; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2012
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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Skill premium, labor supply and changes in the structure of wages in Latin America
Fernández, Manuel; Messina, Julián - 2017
Earnings inequality declined rapidly in Argentina, Brazil and Chile during the 2000s. A reduction in the experience premium is a fundamental driver of declines in upper-tail (90/50) inequality, while a decline in the education premium is the primary determinant of the evolution of lower-tail...
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Social skills and the individual wage growth of less educated workers
Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Blundell, Richard W.; … - 2024
Matched employee-employer data from the UK are used to investigate the importance of social skills, in particular team-work and communication with co-workers, as a driver of wage growth for workers with lower formal education. We find that in social skills tasks, workers enjoy greater wage...
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Medium and long run economic assimilation of Venezuelan migrants to Peru
Torres, Javier; Beverinotti, Javier; … - 2024
In a span of six years, the proportion of Venezuelans in Perú has surged nearly fourfold, rising from virtually zero to over 4% of the population. This study delves into the dynamics of medium- and long-term labor market integration in Perú, combining data from the Venezuelan Population...
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Monopsony power and labor income inequality in Mexico
Cazzuffi, Chiara; Pereira-López, Mariana; Rosales, Irving - 2023
associated with reductions in skilled and unskilled workers' wages. Furthermore, the elasticities are relatively similar. Second …, there is sectoral heterogeneity as, for manufacturing, unskilled workers' wages decrease more, while skilled workers do not … wages is null, and this is consistent with a higher level of bargaining power. Even though the effects of labor market …
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Social skills and the individual wage growth of less educated workers
Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Blundell, Richard W.; … - 2023
We use matched employee-employer data from the UK to highlight the importance of social skills, including the ability to work well in a team and communicate effectively with co-workers, as a driver for individual wage growth for workers with few formal educational qualifications. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014382140
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Training and search on the job
Lentz, Rasmus; Roys, Nicolas - 2016
training induce higher wages within jobs, and with future employers, even conditional on the future employer type. Because …
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Functional specialisation and working conditions in Europe
Stöllinger, Roman; Leitner, Sandra M.; Zavarska, Zuzana - 2023
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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