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development of wages and employment across skill groups, there is considerable disagreement to explain these trends, in particular …
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This paper considers training, mobility decisions and wages together to test for the specificity of human capital … contained in continuing training courses. We empirically analyse the relationship between training, mobility and wages in two …, we find that wages are lower for job changers for the group of training participants, so wages decrease when trained …
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comes from their own actions instead of being determined by luck or destiny, earn higher wages. However, this positive …
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distribution. This paper uses the IAB employment subsample to describe the empirics of labor market transitions and the wage … close relationship exists between wages and labor market transitions as predicted by search theory. However, the noticeable …
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We present a new and simple empirical methodology to identify relative wage rigidity dynamics. The methodology is applied to data from the Polish Labour Force Survey for the period 1994 to 1998. We estimate ceteris paribus changes in relative wage and unemployment differentials for various...
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stability of educational wage premia was justified by market forces. However, relative wages did not respond to negative net …
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the macroeconomic level, we draw special attention to the important distinction between product and consumption wages … changes in the distribution of hourly wages between 1990 and 1997 and analyze the economic factors determining these changes …
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We analyse the Polish wage and unemployment structure between 1992 and 1995 on the basis of the Polish Labour Force Survey. It is shown that within this period wage inequality has stabilised. Surprisingly, wage inequality is lower in the private than in the public sector. Our test results show...
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structure of wages. Ceteris paribus, a higher share of employees in a firm covered by industry-wide or firm-level contracts is … associated with higher wages. Yet, individual bargaining coverage in a covered firm shows a negative impact both on the wage …
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In this study we assess the relationship between father and son earnings among (West) German Workers. To reduce the lifecycle and attenuation bias a novel sampling procedure is developed and applied to the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984-2006. Our preferred point estimate indicates that...
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