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Wages in high-tech start-ups : do academic spin-offs pay a wage premium?

Dorner, Matthias; Fryges, Helmut; Schopen, Kathrin - 2015

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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Field of study, qualification mismatch, and wages : does sorting matter?

Berlingieri, Francesco; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2014

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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Local labor market size and qualification mismatch

Berlingieri, Francesco - 2017

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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Maintaining (locus of) control? : Assessing the impact of locus of control on education decisions and wages

Piatek, Rémi; Pinger, Pia - 2010

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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Does it pay to move? : returns to regional mobility at the start of the career for tertiary education graduates

Maier, Michael F.; Sprietsma, Maresa - 2016

Decisions taken at the start of one’s career have long-term consequences and one important decision graduates have to make is whether to be regionally mobile when looking for the first job. We investigate whether being regionally mobile for the first job following graduation rather than to...

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How much does a year off cost? : estimating the wage effects of employment breaks and part-time periods

Beblo, Miriam; Wolf, Elke - 2000

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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Wage rigidities in Western Germany? : microeconometric evidence from the 1990s

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2001

stability of educational wage premia was justified by market forces. However, relative wages did not respond to negative net …

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The impact of training on earnings : differences between participant groups and training forms

Kuckulenz, Anja; Zwick, Thomas - 2003

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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Cohort effects and the returns to education in West Germany

Boockmann, Bernhard; Steiner, Viktor - 2000

Using a Mincer-type wage function, we estimate cohort effects in the returns to education for West German workers born between 1925 and 1974. The main problem to be tackled in the specification is to separately identify cohort, experience, and possibly also age effects in the returns. For women,...

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Unequal pay or unequal employment? : What drives the skill-composition of labor flows in Germany?

Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry; Lehmer, Florian - 2011

be extended to allow migrants to move to regions that best reward their skills in terms of both wages and employment. The … extended framework predicts skilled workers to be disproportionately attracted to regions with higher mean wages and employment …

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