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This paper investigates the sources of wage growth over the life cycle, where individuals have the possibility to acquire vocational training at the start of their career. Wage growth is determined by sectoral and firm mobility, unobserved ability and the accumulation of human capital. Workers...
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This paper analyzes the career progression of skilled and unskilled workers, with a focus on how careers are affected by economic downturns and whether formal skills, acquired early on, can shield workers from the effect of recessions. Using detailed administrative data for Germany for numerous...
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In recent years a number of panel estimators have been suggested for sample selection models, where both the selection equation and the equation of interest contain individual effects which are correlated with the explanatory variables. We review and compare some of these estimators, and apply...
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currently living abroad, which allows us to develop region-specific emigration rates and estimate emigration's effect on wages …-level skills and that it is wages for this skill group that increased most. We also show that emigration led to a slight increase … in wages overall but that workers at the low end of the skill distribution made no gains and may actually have …
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The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many - if not most - migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...
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the group of workers with apprenticeship training that is driving the low returns to labour market experience, while wages …
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In this paper, we analyse differences in the cyclical pattern of employment and wages of immigrants and natives for two …
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the group of workers with apprenticeship training that is driving the low returns to labour market experience, while wages …
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We relate origin-destination real price differences to immigrants' reservation wages and their career trajectories … Germany when a unit of earnings from Germany allows for larger consumption at home settle for lower entry wages, but …
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We relate origin-destination real price differences to immigrants' reservation wages and their career trajectories … Germany when a unit of earnings from Germany allows for larger consumption at home settle for lower entry wages, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014336387