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Does Education Raise Productivity and Wages Equally? The Moderating Roles of Age, Gender and Industry
Rycx, Francois; Saks, Yves; Tojerow, Ilan - 2015
/or to decrease their wage cost. Yet, the evidence on the misalignment between education-induced productivity gains and … impact of education on productivity, wage costs and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using rich Belgian linked employer … significant upward-sloping profile between education and wage costs, on the one hand, and education and productivity, on the other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531745
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Does Education Raise Productivity and Wages Equally ?The Moderating Roles of Age, Gender and Industry
Rycx, Francois; Tojerow, Ilan D.; Saks, Yves - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2015
/or to decrease their wage cost. Yet, the evidence on the misalignment between education-induced productivity gains and … impact of education on productivity, wage costs and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using rich Belgian linked employer … significant upward-sloping profile between education and wage costs, on the one hand, and education and productivity, on the other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272744
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Does Education Raise Productivity and Wages Equally ?The Moderating Roles of Age, Gender and Industry
Rycx, Francois; Tojerow, Ilan D.; Saks, Yves - Département d'Économie Appliquée (DULBEA), Solvay … - 2015
/or to decrease their wage cost. Yet, the evidence on the misalignment between education-induced productivity gains and … impact of education on productivity, wage costs and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using rich Belgian linked employer … significant upward-sloping profile between education and wage costs, on the one hand, and education and productivity, on the other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276375
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Wage Dispersion and Firm Productivity in Different Working Environments
Mahy, Benoit - 2009
This paper investigates the impact of wage dispersion on firm productivity in different working environments. More precisely, it examines the interaction with: i) the skills of the workforce, using a more appropriate indicator than the standard distinction between white - and blue collar...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764573
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The Part-Time Wage Penalty in European Countries : How Large is it for Men?
O'Dorchai, Sile - 2007
Economic theory advances a number of reasons for the existence of a wage gap between part-time and full-time workers. Empirical work has concentrated on the wage effects of part-time work for women. For men, much less empirical evidence exists, mainly because of lacking data. In this paper, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777513
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The incidence and determinants of overeducation in Belgium
KARAKAYA, GUNGOR; Plasman, Robert Alain; Rycx, Francois - In: Brussels Economic Review 48 (2005) 1-2, pp. 113-136
that labour market experience is treated by employers as a substitute for formal education. They also show that male …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005163115
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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration: The Case of Occupations
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 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/10008868116
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Does Wage Dispersion Make All Firms Productive?
Rycx, Francois; Mahy, Benoît; Volral, Mélanie - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2011
This article puts the relationship between wage dispersion and firm productivity to an updated test, taking advantage of access to detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data. Controlling for simultaneity issues, time-invariant workplace characteristics and dynamics in the adjustment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009142627
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Does Wage Dispersion Make All Firms Productive?
Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, Francois; Volral, Mélanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This article puts the relationship between wage dispersion and firm productivity to an updated test, taking advantage of access to detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data. Controlling for simultaneity issues, time-invariant workplace characteristics and dynamics in the adjustment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147306
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Does it pay to be productive ?The case of age groups
Rycx, Francois; Cataldi, Alessandra; Kampelmann, Stephan - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2011
Using longitudinal matched employer-employee data for the period 1999-2006, we investigate the relationship between age, wage and productivity in the Belgian private sector. More precisely, we examine how changes in the proportions of young (16-29 years), middle-aged (30-49 years) and older...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009251209