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Human Capital Mismatches along the Career Path
Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Neffke, Frank - 2010
redundancies. This results in superior predictions of individual wages and occupational switches. It also allows identifying career …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281656
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326044
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Wage growth and career patterns of German low-wage workers
Stephani, Jens - 2012
Using administrative linked employer-employee data from Germany, this paper analyses the real wage growth and career patterns of full-time employed low-wage workers between 2001 and 2006. Multivariate models accounting for sample selection demonstrate the relevance of individual characteristics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323819
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The Impact of Wage Increases on Job Satisfaction: Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Implications
Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk - 2001
The impact of wage increases on job satisfaction are explored. First, it is empirically established that current job satisfaction rises with absolute wage level as well as with wage increases. Second, a basic job satisfaction function is constructed based on the empirical results, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262591
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The twin effects of globalization: Evidence from a sample of Indian manufacturing firms
Daveri, Francesco; Manasse, Paolo; Serra, Danila - 2010
Employees of globalized firms face a riskier menu of labor market outcomes. They face a more uncertain stream of earnings and riskier employment prospects. However, they may also have stronger incentives to train and upgrade their skills and/or may benefit from more rapid careers. Hence, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274735
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513150
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513221
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319365
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Geringverdiener: wem und wie gelingt der Aufstieg?
Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; Stephani, Jens - 2008
which extent full-time employees who earned low wages (less than two-thirds of the median wage) in 1998/99 were able to earn … higher wages in the following years, and which factors played a role in this context. It is shown that just one out of eight … of these low-wage earners was able to earn wages above the low wage threshold in 2005. While younger and better qualified …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299248
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Low-wage careers: are there dead-end firms and dead-end jobs?
Mosthaf, Alexander; Schnabel, Claus; Stephani, Jens - 2010
one out of seven full-time employees who earned low wages (i.e. less than two-thirds of the median wage) in 1998/99 was … able to earn wages above the low-wage threshold in 2003. Bivariate probit estimations with endogenous selection indicate … appears to be an important instrument for achieving wages above the low-wage threshold. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299895