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comes from their own actions instead of being determined by luck or destiny, earn higher wages. However, this positive …. -- Locus of control ; wages ; latent factor model ; data set combination …
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While there is a broad literature on the general wage effect of training, little is known about the effects of different training forms and about the effects for heterogeneous training participants. This study therefore adds two aspects to the literature on earnings effects of training. First,...
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lower wages than comparable full-time workers. The results further point out that more experienced women, who accumulated …
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Graduates from Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) are usually found to have higher wages and a … overqualification and wages in a causal way, since individuals choosing these subjects might differ systematically in unobserved … differences in the risk of overqualification and wages when STEM graduates are compared to the Business & Law group, while it …
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This paper jointly analyses the consequences of adverse selection and signalling on entry wages of skilled employees … job applicants based on apprenticeship wages. It shows that post-apprenticeship employer changers are a negative selection … from the training firms’ point of view. Negative selection leads to lower average wages of employer changersin the first …
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Distinguishing carefully between mobility across firms and across occupations, this study provides causal estimates of the wage effects of mobility among graduates from apprenticeship in Germany. Our instrumental variables approach exploits variation in regional labor market characteristics....
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This paper investigates the effect of the size of the local labor market on skill mismatch. Using survey data for Germany, I find that workers in large cities are both less likely to be overqualified for their job and to work in a different field than the one they are trained for. Different...
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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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Discontinuities in the employment profile are supposed to cause wage cuts since they imply an interruption in the accumulation of human capital as well as a depreciation of the human capital stock built up in the past. In this paper, we estimate the return to effective experience, taking into...
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wages in start‐ups unambiguously predicts the existence and the direction of wage differentials between spin‐offs and non … higher wages to employees with linkages to the university sector – either as university graduates or as student workers. …
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