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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration: The Case of Occupations
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - 2011
Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601006
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The Heterogeneous Employment Outcomes of First- and Second-Generation Immigrants in Belgium
Piton, Céline; Rycx, Francois - 2020
-born workers to be (largely) suppressed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207685
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Educational and Skills Mismatches: Unravelling Their Effects on Wages across Europe
Cultrera, Loredana; Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, Francois; … - 2022
This paper is among the firsts to investigate the impact of overeducation and overskilling on workers' wages using a … penalty is reached for workers that are both overeducated and overskilled. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177749
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The Over-Education Wage Penalty among PhD Holders: A European Perspective
Rycx, Francois; Santosuosso, Giulia; Vermeylen, Guillaume - 2022
While the literature on the incidence and wage effects of over-education is substantial, specific results for doctoral graduates are surprisingly scarce. This article aims to fill this gap, not only by measuring the prevalence of over-educated PhD holders in Europe (i.e. in EU Member States and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351956
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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration : The Case of Occupations
Kampelmann, Stephan - 2011
Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128093
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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration : The Case of Occupations
Kampelmann, Stephan - 2011
Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130457
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Who is Your Perfect Match? Educational Norms, Educational Mismatch and Firm Profitability
Kampelmann, Stephan - 2016
We provide first evidence regarding the direct effect of educational norms and educational mismatch on the bottom line of firms across work environments. To do so, we use rich Belgian linked employer-employee panel data, rely on the methodological approach pioneered by Hellerstein et al. (1999),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978148
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Educational Mismatch and Firm Productivity : Do Skills, Technology and Uncertainty Matter?
Mahy, Benoit - 2015
The authors provide first evidence on whether the direct relationship between educational mismatch and firm productivity varies across working environments. Using detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data for 1999-2010, they find the existence of a significant, positive (negative)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013026437
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Educational Mismatch and Firm Productivity: Do Skills, Technology and Uncertainty Matter?
Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, Francois; Vermeylen, Guillaume - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
The authors provide first evidence on whether the direct relationship between educational mismatch and firm productivity varies across working environments. Using detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data for 1999-2010, they find the existence of a significant, positive (negative)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011267817
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Moving Up the Social Ladder? Wages of First- and Second-Generation Immigrants from Developing Countries
Pineda-Hernández, Kevin; Rycx, Francois; Volral, Mélanie - 2022
2016, our weighted multilevel log-linear regressions first indicate that in Belgium, the overall wage gap between workers … born in developed countries and workers originating from developing countries remains substantial: it reaches 15.7% and 13 … explained by the fact that they are younger and have less tenure than workers born in developed countries. Furthermore, our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014241091