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Career paths in online labor markets: Same, same but different?
Seifried, Mareike; Jurowetzki, Roman; Kretschmer, Tobias - 2020
The emergence of online labor markets calls the validity of traditional career models into question. Given the … whether there are distinct trajectories and patterns in online careers. We document dominant career paths and develop a … taxonomy of novel career patterns in OLMs. This addresses recent calls for research to update and refine our theories and …
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Outside options drive wage inequalities in continuing jobs: Evidence from a natural experiment
Lukesch, Veronika; Zwick, Thomas - 2021
The literature on wage bargaining so far mainly argues that unemployment benefits are relevant outside options for employees. This paper demonstrates that also a change in outside wage options drives wages in continuing jobs. The authors use the natural experiment of a crafts reform that reduces...
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Transitions from offline to online labor markets: The relationship between freelancers' prior offline and online work experience
Seifried, Mareike - 2021
An emerging stream of research from various disciplines studies online labor market (OLM) platforms as an alternative way of accomplishing work compared to traditional (offline) labor markets. Although prior work has increased our understanding of how OLM platforms function, we so far know very...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012798243
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Human capital creates insider power
Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - 1999
This paper demonstrates that insiders can erect barriers to entry and skim rents by sinking costs in human capital when labour markets are otherwise perfectly contestable. The sunk costs nature of human capital investments may result from the need to satisfy ever increasing specialised skill...
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Human capital creates insider power
Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1999
This paper demonstrates that insiders can erect barriers to entry and skim rents by sinking costs in human capital when labour markets are otherwise perfectly contestable. The sunk costs nature of human capital investments may result from the need to satisfy ever increasing specialised skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097961
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Dynamics of overqualification: Evidence from the early career of graduates
Erdsiek, Daniel - 2017
overqualification is highly persistent among tertiary graduates over the first ten years of their career cycle. Accounting for … persistence of overqualification. In particular, selection into initial overqualification at the start of the career is of high …
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Preferred field of study and academic performance
Berlingieri, Francesco; Diegmann, André; Sprietsma, Maresa - 2022
This paper investigates the impact of studying the first-choice university subject on dropout and switching field of study for a cohort of students in Germany. Using detailed survey data, and employing an instrumental variable strategy based on variation in the local field of study availability,...
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Overqualification of graduates: Assessing the role of family background
Erdsiek, Daniel - 2014
Studies on the underlying mechanisms of social mobility commonly find that half of the intergenerational earnings persistence remains unexplained. Focusing on the phenomenon of overqualification, this study examines a transmission channel that might operate beyond the mechanisms previously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468089
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International student exchange and academic performance
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Joosten, Wytse; Toivanen, Otto - 2021
International student exchange has become an important part of university-level studies and the EU plans to increase it significantly. We analyze how international student exchange affects students' academic human capital. Using detailed student-level data from four faculties (Economics and...
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Up or out: Research incentives and career prospects of postdocs in Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Leuschner, Ute - 2012
career prospects. We conceptualize the career prospects of a postdoc in a life-cycle perspective of transitions from academic … there is quite a strong confidence to succeed in an academic career. Furthermore, postdocs who attended a PhD program show … better career prospects and higher research incentives compared to others. Academic career prospects and motivation are …
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