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Firm productivity, wages, and sorting
Lochner, Benjamin; Schulz, Bastian - 2020
Increasing wage inequality is associated with changes in the degree of labor market sorting, i.e. the allocation of workers to firms. To measure sorting, we propose a new method which disentangles the respective contributions of worker and firm heterogeneity to wage inequality. Inspired by...
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Does employer learning vary by occupation?
Mansour, Hani - 2010
Models in which employers learn about the productivity of young workers, such as Altonji and Pierret (2001), have two principal implications: First, the distribution of wages becomes more dispersed as a cohort of workers gains experience; second, the coefficient on a variable that employers...
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The role of labour market expectations and admission probabilities in students' application decisions on higher education : the case of Hungary
Varga, Júlia - 2003
This paper analyses the effects of labour market expectations and admission probabilities on students' application strategies to higher education. The starting hypothesis of this study is that students consider the expected utility of their choices, a function of expected net lifetime earnings...
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Work organization and high-paying jobs
Nelson, Dylan; Wilmers, Nathan; Zhang, Letian - 2024
High-paying factory jobs in the 1940s were an engine of egalitarian economic growth for a generation. Are there alternate forms of work organization that deliver similar benefits for frontline workers? Work organization varies by type of complexity and degree of employer control. Technical and...
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Intergenerational mobility in occupational choices : are there gender differences in Ghana?
Twumasi Baffour, Priscilla; Turkson, Festus Ebo; … - 2021
Historically, the issue of intergenerational evolution of income, wealth, and socioeconomic status has been the subject of considerable research in the analysis of inequality. Such intergenerational linkages are anticipated to come from two sources: first, the inheritance of innate abilities and...
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Skills, Job Mobility and Productive Efficiency
Stijepic, Damir - 2018
Making use of a survey that directly assesses the participants' cognitive skills, I study the relation between skills and job mobility in a large international comparison of 32 countries. Motivated by the canonical on-the-job search model, I measure job mobility by the ratio of the job-finding...
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Labor market sorting in Germany : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Employment and Social Protection, April 2016
Lochner, Benjamin; Schulz, Bastian - 2016
This paper analyzes the allocation of workers to jobs and the wage distribution in Germany. Our main contribution is to reconcile prominent empirical models of wage dispersion (Abowd et al., 1999; Card et al., 2013) with theoretical sorting models (Shimer and Smith, 2000; Eeckhout and Kircher, 2011;...
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Mismatch of talent : evidence on match quality, entry wages, and job mobility
Fredriksson, Peter; Hensvik, Lena; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2015
to their types of talents. We therefore measure mismatch by how well the types of talents of recent hires correspond to … where mismatch is more pronounced on average. Most learning about job-specific mismatch happens within a year. Experienced … job-to-job movers appear to match under much less uncertainty. They are better matched on entry and mismatch have a …
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Mismatch of talent : evidence on match quality, entry wages, and job mobility
Fredriksson, Peter; Hensvik, Lena; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2015
to their types of talents. We therefore measure mismatch by how well the types of talents of recent hires correspond to … where mismatch is more pronounced on average. Most learning about job-specific mismatch happens within a year. Experienced … job-to-job movers appear to match under much less uncertainty. They are better matched on entry and mismatch have a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390549
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Mismatch of Talent : Evidence on Match Quality, Entry Wages, and Job Mobility
Fredriksson, Peter - 2016
to their types of talents. We therefore measure mismatch by how well the types of talents of recent hires correspond to … where mismatch is more pronounced on average. Most learning about job-specific mismatch happens within a year. Experienced … job-to-job movers appear to match under much less uncertainty. They are better matched on entry and mismatch have a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013002443