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The standard labor-supply literature typically assumes that the labor supply response to wage increases is the same as that for equivalent wage decreases. However, evidence from the behavioral-economics literature suggests that people are loss averse and thus perceive losses differently than...
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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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In this paper the impact of working hours on the gross hourly wage rate of West German women is analyzed. We use a simultaneous wage-hours model which takes into account the participation decision. First, our estimates show that the hourly wage rate is strongly a¤ected by the working hours. In...
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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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This paper examines the wage effects of different types of career interruptions. We consider the timing and duration of non-employment spells by exploiting an administrative data set of German social security accounts (IAB employment sample) supplemented with information on the employees' entire...
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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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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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