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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008936437
This paper examines whether men's and women's noncognitive skills influence their occupational attainment and, if so, whether this contributes to the disparity in their relative wages. We find that noncognitive skills have a substantial effect on the probability of employment in many, though not...
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growth in the variance of residual wages over the first ten years of the worker's career are also the occupations with high …
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Der Beitrag fasst die Ergebnisse einer Reihe von Untersuchungen zusammen, die sich auf Basis der Daten des deutschen Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) mit der Lohnstruktur auf deutschen Arbeitsmärkten beschäftigen. Die Analysen nutzen neben Kleinstquadrateschätzern die von Altonji und...
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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 … 7%. -- Fertility ; Wage Differentials ; Career Path …
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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 … 7%. -- Fertility ; wage differentials ; career path …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580145
Both vertical (between job levels) and horizontal (within job levels) mobility can be sources of wage growth. We find that the glass ceiling operates at both margins. The unexplained part of the wage gap grows across job levels (glass ceiling at the vertical margin) and across the deciles of the...
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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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