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Family Background Variables as Instruments for Education in Income Regressions: A Bayesian Analysis
Hoogerheide, Lennart; Block, Joern H.; Thurik, Roy - 2010
The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In this paper, we use data of the 2004 German Socio-Economic Panel and Bayesian analysis in order to analyze to what degree violations of the strong validity assumption affect the...
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An Empirical Measure for Labor Market Density
Gautier, Pieter A.; Teulings, Coen N. - 2000
In this paper we derive a structural measure for labor market density based on the Ellison and Glasear (1997) Index for industry concentration. This labor market density measure serves as a proxy for the number of workers that can reach a certain work area within a reasonal amount of traveling...
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Wage Fairness and International Trade Theory and Policy
Agell, Jonas; Lundborg, Per - 1991
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Dezentrale Lohnfindung und Tarifautonomie
Möschel, Wernhard - In: ifo Schnelldienst 56 (2003) 15, pp. 7-14
Als letzter Redner im Sommersemester 2003 referierte Prof. Dr. Wernhard Möschel, Universität Tübingen, am 7. Juli im »Münchner Seminar« am ifo Institut zum Thema Tarifautonomie und Lohnfindung. Insbesondere zeigte er Möglichkeiten auf, im gegebenen rechtlichen Rahmen dem...
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Exchange rates and wages
Goldberg, Linda; Tracy, Joseph - 2001
economies. Previous studies using industry aggregate data have found that industry wages are significantly more responsive than … Survey data for 1976 through 1998, we document that the main mechanism for exchange rate effects on wages occurs through job … turnover and the strong consequences this has for the wages of workers undergoing such job transitions. By contrast, workers …
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How do firms adjust their wage bill in Belgium? A decomposition along the intensive and extensive margins
Fuss, Catherine - 2008
. Wage growth of job stayers is moderated but still positive; and wages of entrants compared with those of incumbents are no …
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Testing the Validity of Item Non-Response as a Proxy for Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills
Kassenböhmer, Sonja C.; Schurer, Stefanie; Leung, Felix - 2015
paradata. Fraction answered captures a third of the effect of cognitive ability on wages and education. We provide a simple …
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The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Disruptions to Education, and the Returns to Schooling in Urban China
Giles, John T.; Park, Albert; Wang, Meiyan - 2015
-ability students select into higher education. Additional tests show that the results are unlikely to be driven by sample selection …
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Young FSU Migrants in Germany: Educational Attainment and Early Labor Market Outcomes
Flake, Regina - 2013
This study analyzes the educational attainment and early labor market outcomes of young migrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) who arrived in Germany between 1989 and 1994. The results reveal that migrants have lower educational attainments than natives, and that within the group of...
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How do firms adjust their wage bill in Belgium? A decomposition along the intensive and extensive margins
Fuss, Catherine - 2008
. Wage growth of job stayers is moderated but still positive; and wages of entrants compared with those of incumbents are no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506648