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This study examines the degree to which the effects of job loss depend on task usage and task distance to other jobs. We use linked employer-employee data and representative survey data on task usage and plant closures to identify individuals who have lost their jobs involuntarily. We find that...
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experience. Allowing workers to learn from experience generates a decline in job finding probabilities with age that is … consistent with patterns found in the data. Moreover, workers with more past experience will on average have less wage volatility … fans out with experience, this second result implies that individual wage changes become more predictable. …
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Drawing on newly available panel data, this paper presents an empirical analysis of the wage effects of changing job tasks, assessed for individuals at their workplace. I am therefore able to exploit within-occupation within-individual variation, over time, to study wage returns to cognitive,...
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not match their educational level, settling for lower wages than their peers. This raises the question, how these …. Furthermore, we find that overeducated workers experience higher wage growth than their colleagues in all job types. …
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experience. The results show that trade-induced adjustment costs are substantial and heterogeneous across workers. For some …
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Using the 3-year sample of the American Community Survey (ACS) for 2009 to 2011, we compute public school teacher salaries for comparison across U.S. states. Teacher salaries are adjusted for state differences in teacher characteristics, cost of living, household amenity attractiveness and...
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Distinguishing carefully between mobility across firms and across occupations, this study provides causal estimates of the wage effects of mobility among graduates from apprenticeship in Germany. Our instrumental variables approach exploits variation in regional labor market characteristics....
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Distinguishing carefully between mobility across firms and across occupations, this study provides causal estimates of the wage effects of mobility among graduates from apprenticeship in Germany. Our instrumental variables approach exploits variation in regional labor market characteristics....
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Does over-education assist or hinder occupational advancement? Career mobility theory hypothesizes that over-education leads to a higher level of occupational advancement and wage growth over time, with mixed international empirical evidence. This paper re-tests career mobility theory directly...
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the group of workers with apprenticeship training that is driving the low returns to labour market experience, while wages …This paper investigates job mobility and estimates the returns to tenure and experience in the United Kingdom and … selected in Germany, but not in the UK. Our findings suggest that returns to experience are substantially higher in the UK …
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