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This paper examines whether nutritional disruptions experienced during the stage of fetal development impair an individual's labor market productivity later in life. We consider intrauterine exposure to the month of Ramadan as a natural experiment that might cause shocks to the inflow of...
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This paper examines whether nutritional disruptions experienced during the stage of fetal development impair an individual's labor market productivity later in life. We consider intrauterine exposure to the month of Ramadan as a natural experiment that might cause shocks to the inflow of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010441715
Gregariousness is an important aspect of human life with implications for labour market outcomes. The paper examines, to the best of our knowledge for the first time for Germany, gregariousness and social interaction at the workplace and associated wage differentials. Our empirical findings with...
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Discontinuities in the employment profile are supposed to cause wage cuts since they imply an interruption in the accumulation of human capital as well as a depreciation of the human capital stock built up in the past. In this paper, we estimate the return to effective experience, taking into...
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performance in developing economies looks at variations in impact across specific characteristics of the studies. A marginal year …
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Career mobility theory suggests that given a certain occupation, schooling improves upward mobility in terms of … promoted and that this career mobility advantage is more pronounced in the early stages of their working lives. By contrast …. Altogether, these findings strongly support the career mobility theory. Furthermore, by differentiating between internal and …
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We demonstrate that empirical evidence of employer learning is sensitive to how one defines the career start date and … – systematically overstates experience and biases learning estimates towards zero for college-educated workers. Using career start …
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increase with age. Third, the effect on total incomes reflects a combination of positive impacts of cognitive performance for … examine how cognitive performance, measured at approximately the end of secondary schooling, is related to the labor market … analysis reveals five main findings. First, cognitive performance is positively associated with future labor market outcomes at …
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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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study the underlying mechanisms of the wage premium, paying particular attention to the relationship between career stage … and fertility timing. We find that delaying parenthood by one additional year during the career implies a wage premium of …
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