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Booth, Alison L; Frank, Jeff - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

This paper uses the British Household Panel Survey to investigate when seniority is rewarded by automatic incremental scales. Scales are seen as an alternative to individual merit pay. They are likely to be used when individual productivity is hard to measure, when firms provide all workers with...

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Age-adjusted measures of earnings inequality in the United States, 1980-2010

Schirle, Tammy - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 3, pp. 2662-2669

I demonstrate a simple procedure for creating age-adjusted earnings distribution statistics, using US data and recentered influence function regression methods. As the baby boom generation has moved toward the latter part of their career, earnings distribution statistics for the working age...

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Re-examining the impact of dropping out on criminal and labor outcomes in early adulthood

Bjerk, David - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 1, pp. 110-122

This paper shows that while high school dropouts fare far worse on average than otherwise similar high school completers in early adulthood outcomes such as success in the labor market and future criminal activity, there are important differences within this group of dropouts. Notably, those who...

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The long-term earnings consequences of general vs. specific training of the unemployed

Stenberg, Anders; Westerlund, Olle - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 22, pp. 1-26

Training programs for the unemployed typically involve training specific skills in demand amongst employers. In 1997, Swedish unemployed could also choose general schooling at the upper secondary level. This offers a unique opportunity to assess the theoretically ambiguous long-term relative...

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Demographic changes, educational improvements, and earnings in Brazil and Mexico

Amaral, Ernesto F. L.; Queiroz, Bernardo Lanza; … - In: IZA journal of labor & development 4 (2015) 23, pp. 1-21

This paper estimates the association of demographic and educational changes with earnings and returns to schooling of male workers in Brazil and Mexico. Our analysis takes into account demographic, educational, and economic variations within each country over time, using Demographic Censuses...

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Motherhood and women's earnings in Anglo-American, Continental European, and Nordic Countries

Sigle-Rushton, Wendy; Waldfogel, Jane - In: Feminist Economics 13 (2007) 2, pp. 55-91

The earnings of mothers make up an important, but difficult to quantify, component of parental expenditures on children. This paper compares the long-term earnings of women with children, women without children, and men. The study conducts separate analyses for less educated, moderately...

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The career dynamics of high-skilled women and men: Evidence from Sweden

Albrecht, Jim; Bronson, Mary Ann; Skogmann Thoursie, Peter - 2018

and men. Specifically, we track wages for up to 20 years among women and men born in the years 1960 - 70 who completed a … university degree in business or economics. These women and men have similar wages and earnings at the start of their careers … patterns in wages that we see. Men and women both exhibit greater mobility early in their careers, but there is little gender …

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Does Smoking Really Harm Your Earnings so Much? Biases in Current Estimates of the Smoking Wage Penalty

Anger, Silke; Kvasnicka, Michael - In: Applied Economics Letters 17 (2010) 6, pp. 561-564

Empirical studies on the earnings effects of tobacco use have found significant wage penalties attached to smoking. This article produces evidence that suggests that these estimates are significantly upward biased. The bias arises from a general failure in the literature to control for past...

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The returns to school-quality-adjusted education of immigrants in Germany

Quang, Huy Le; Vallizadeh, Ehsan - In: Journal for labour market research 56 (2022) 1, pp. 1-15

This paper explores the role of school quality in immigrants' home countries on their earnings in Germany, using native Germans as a benchmark. We propose an empirical analysis that highlights two important insights. First, there is a substantial gap in the returns to education between natives...

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Returns to skills or returns to tasks? : a comment on Hanushek et al. (2015)

Christl, Michael; Köppl-Turyna, Monika - 2017

We comment on the work of Hanushek et al. (2015) and show that returns to skills are very heterogeneous and depend crucially on the tasks performed in the workplace, in line with the critique by Acemoglu and Autor (2011). Depending on the type of tasks performed at work, as well as on...

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