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Tenure, experience, human capital and wages : a tractable equilibrium search model of wage dynamics
Bagger, Jesper; Fontaine, François; Postel-Vinay, Fabien; … - 2014 - rev.
, employer heterogeneity and individual-level shocks. Career wage growth is decomposed into the contributions of human capital … capital accumulation and job search contribute to the observed concavity of wage-experience profiles. The contribution from … job search to wage growth, both within- and between-job, declines over the first ten years of a career - the 'job …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010254832
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Wage and Productivity Effect of Continuing Training in Germany : A Sectoral Analysis
Kuckulenz, Anja - 2008
Wage and productivity effects of training are compared to study how the training rent is shared between employers and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012727101
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When the minimum wage really bites hard : impact on top earners and skill supply
Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2020
We investigate minimum wage spillovers by exploiting the first-time introduction of a minimum wage within a quasi …-experiment in a context with an extraordinary large bite: the German roofing industry. We find positive wage spillovers for medium …-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012285605
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When the minimum wage really bites hard : impact on top earners and skill supply
Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2020
We investigate minimum wage spillovers by exploiting the first-time introduction of a minimum wage within a quasi …-experiment in a context with an extraordinary large bite: the German roofing industry. We find positive wage spillovers for medium …-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270418
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When the minimum wage really bites hard: impact on top earners and skill supply
Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2020
We investigate minimum wage spillovers by exploiting the first-time introduction of a minimum wage within a quasi …-experiment in a context with an extraordinary large bite: the German roofing industry. We find positive wage spillovers for medium …-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271659
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The returns to personality traits across the wage distribution
Collischon, Matthias - 2017
This paper investigates heterogeneous wage effects of non-cognitive skills across the wage distribution. I develop a … model of wage determination under uncertainty with respect to individual productivity based on three components (minimum … effects of non-cognitive skills for high-wage employees compared to their low-wage counterparts. I test these hypotheses with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011701178
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The Returns to Personality Traits Across the Wage Distribution
Collischon, Matthias - 2017
This paper investigates variation in the wage effects of non-cognitive skills across the wage distribution. I expect (i …) increasing explanatory power and (ii) increasing magnitudes of the effects of non-cognitive skills on wages across the wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946840
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ORU analyses of immigrant earnings in Australia, with international comparisons
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009
This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation/required education/undereducation (ORU) framework (Hartog, 2000) and a decomposition of the native-born/foreign-born differential in the payoff to schooling developed by Chiswick and Miller...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269488
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The effects of school quality in the origin on the payoff to schooling for immigrants
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2010
The payoff to schooling among the foreign born in the US is only around one-half of the payoff for the native born. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The paper uses the Over-education/ Required...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272661
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Employment relations and wages : what can we learn from subjective assessments?
Lachowska, Marta - 2013
This paper studies the link between hourly wages and workers' subjective assessments of how easy it would be to find another job as good as the present one, and how easy it would be for an employer to replace an employee. First, using high-quality data, I study the correlates of these two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009761377