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Training and Wages of Older Workers in Europe
Belloni, Michele - 2014
European older workers and their wages, relying on the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. Undertaking training … activities is associated with 6.3% higher wages. This premium is sizeable and is similar to that of attaining an upper or post … are highest in Austria, Germany, Greece, and Italy and are about half that in France and Spain. No premium is found for …
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Should I Stay or Should I Go? An Investigation of Graduate Regional Mobility in the UK and its Impact Upon Early Career Earnings
Kidd, Michael P. - 2014
This paper uses HESA data from the Destination of Leavers from Higher Education survey 2003/04 to examine whether more mobile students in terms of choice of institution and location of employment earn more than those who are less mobile. The clear finding is that mobility is associated with...
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Labour market concentration, wages and job security in Europe
Bassanini, Andrea; Bovini, Giulia; Caroli, Eve; … - 2022
are strikingly similar across countries: increasing labour market concentration by 10% reduces wages by 0.19% in Germany …We investigate the impact of labour market concentration on two dimensions of job quality, namely wages and job … security. We leverage rich administrative linked employer-employee data from Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and …
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Is higher education mobility a good investment for EU lagging regions? : the case of Master and Back, an active labour market policy co‐financed by the European Social Fund. : XII...
Orrù, Enrico - 2012
This research claims that investing European Union (EU) Structural Funds in Learning Mobility (LM) might lead to further regional polarization. LM is a type of labour mobility finalized to acquire new knowledge (human capital) and social networks (social capital). Historically, LM has been...
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The transition to self-employment and perceived skill-mismatches: panel data evidence from eleven EU countries
Albiol Sánchez, Judit; Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Teruel … - 2020
Some studies using either objective or subjective indicators, find that self-employed individuals are less likely to be or to report being skill-mismatched in comparison with salaried employees. The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of the transition from salaried employment to...
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Deconstructing theories of overeducation in Europe : a wage decomposition approach
McGuinness, Séamus; Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2016
This paper uses data from the Cedefop European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey, a new international dataset of adult workers in 28 EU countries, to decompose the wage penalty of overeducated workers. The ESJ survey allows for integration of a rich, previously unavailable, set of factors in the...
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Peers' composition effects in the short and in the long run : college major, college performance and income
Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2015
In this paper we use a newly constructed dataset following 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to labor market and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic performance and their labor market income. We...
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Job Mismatches and Career Mobility
Wen, Le - 2018
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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Training, Wages and Employment Security : An Empirical Analysis on European Data
Bassanini, Andrea - 2005
We use data from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) to assess the effects of employee training on the average wage and employment security of different labour market groups in EU countries. We find significant training wage premia only in the case of young or highly educated...
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The over-education wage penalty among PhD holders : a European perspective
Rycx, François; Santosuosso, Giulia; Vermeylen, Guillaume - 2022
While the literature on the incidence and wage effects of over-education is substantial, specific results for doctoral graduates are surprisingly scarce. This article aims to fill this gap, not only by measuring the prevalence of over-educated PhD holders in Europe (i.e. in EU Member States and...
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