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Hart, Robert A.; Ritchie, Felix - 1999

We provide empirical support for the contention that within-job wage growth relates purely to job-specific performance and that returns to general experience are assessed at the point of job change. Using the British New Earnings Survey panel data we identify job changes that take place both...

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Tenures that Shook the World: Worker Turnover in Russia, Poland and Britain

Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 1999

We study worker turnover in a transition economy to investigate to what extent the length of time a worker has been employed by a firm shapes the turnover process. Using data from the Polish Labor Force Survey and The Russian Longitudinal Monitor Survey we compare the pattern of turnover with a...

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Wages, Training and Job Turnover in a Search-Matching Model

Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael - 2000

(2000) to allow for different offer arrival rates in employment and unemployment. The model by Mortensen changes the …

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Job creation and job destruction in Estonia: labour reallocation and structural changes

Masso, Jaan; Eamets, Raul; Philips, Kaia - 2005

This article documents and analyses gross job flows and their determinants in Estonia over the years 1995-2001, using a database containing the population of officially registered firms in Estonia (all in all 52,000). Our results show that job creation and job destruction rates have been rather...

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Home ownership, job duration, and wages

Munch, Jakob Roland; Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael - 2006

local labour market. In addition, there is a clear negative effect of home ownership on the unemployment risk and a positive …

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Do unemployment benefits promote or hinder structural change?

Boeri, Tito; Macis, Mario - 2008

According to recent and largely untested theories, unemployment benefits (UBs) could improve the extent and quality of … job reallocation even at the cost of increasing unemployment. Using yearly panel data from a large number of countries, we … evaluate empirically the relationship between unemployment benefits and structural change. Unlike previous work assessing the …

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Mapping of the PhDs in the private sector: A literature review

Stén, Susanna - 2008

This review maps out the labour market situation of PhDs employed in the private sector. To begin with, the theoretical motives for employing PhDs and the supporting empirical evidence are examined. The potential benefits of companies from employing PhDs can be divided into productivity and...

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The nature and extent of job separations in Germany: some new evidence from SOEP

Haile, Getinet A. - 2009

This paper analyses job separations in Germany using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel spanning from 1984 to 2003. Based on detailed reasons for job separation and different SOEP samples, the paper attempts to establish the nature of job separations in Germany. It brings to light some...

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Within- and cross-firm mobility and earnings growth

Frederiksen, Anders; Halliday, Timothy; Koch, Alexander K. - 2010

While it is well established that both promotions within firms and mobility across firms lead to significant earnings progression, little is known about the interaction between these types of mobility. Exploiting a large Danish panel data set and controlling for unobserved individual...

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Wage mobility in Austria 1986 - 1996

Hofer, Helmut; Weber, Andrea - 2001

We examine wage mobility of Austrians, using 1986-1996 data from administrative sources. For the evaluation of wage mobility we calculate mobility measures based on transitions between quintiles in the wage distribution. A second group of indices measure wage mobility by the extent to which...

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