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The Changing Distribution of Job Satisfaction

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1999

1978 and 1996, in ways correlated with changing wage inequality. Satisfaction among workers in upper earnings quantiles … response to a sharp increase in the relative earnings of high-wage men in the mid-1990s. Several hypotheses about the …

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Overqualification, job dissatisfaction, and increasing dispersion in the returns to graduate education

Green, Francis; Zhu, Yu - 2008

Increasing dispersion in the returns to graduate education is found, using quantile regression. This trend is related to rising overqualification. We distinguish between and validate measures of Real and Formal overqualification, according to whether it is or is not accompanied by...

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Lohnentwicklung im Lebenszyklus

Orlowski, Robert; Riphahn, Regina T. - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 44 (2011) 1/2, pp. 29-41

in wage determinants in the private and the public sector, in East and West Germany, for men and women, as well as in …

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Markets for reputation: evidence on quality and quantity in academe

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2009

We develop a theory of the market for individual reputation, an indicator of regard by one's peers and others. The central questions are: 1) Does the quantity of exposures raise reputation independent of their quality? and 2) Assuming that overall quality matters for reputation, does the quality...

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Training in East Germany: An evaluation of the effects on employment and wages

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Prey, Hedwig - 1996

Support of training has been one of the most important instruments of active labor market policy in East Germany. This paper attempts an evaluation of the effects of training on future employment and future wages of trainees. The analysis distinguishes between measures within and outside of the...

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Do students expect compensation for wage risk?

Schweri, Juerg; Hartog, Joop; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2009

We use a unique data set about the wage distribution that Swiss students expect for themselves ex ante, deriving … parametric and non-parametric measures to capture expected wage risk. These wage risk measures are unfettered by heterogeneity … which handicapped the use of actual market wage dispersion as risk measure in earlier studies. Students in our sample …

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