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Multidimensional human capital, wages, and endogenous employment status in Ghana
Blunch, Niels-Hugo - In: Labour markets and economic development, (pp. 367-386). 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003863293
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Human capital risk and the firmsize wage premium
Leung, Danny (contributor);  … - 2008
Why do employed persons in large firms earn more than employed persons in small firms, even after controlling for observable characteristics? Complementary to previous results, this paper proposes a mechanism that gives an answer to this question. In the model, individuals accumulate human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003773015
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How much does a year off cost? : estimating the wage effects of employment breaks and part-time periods
Beblo, Miriam; Wolf, Elke - 2000
Discontinuities in the employment profile are supposed to cause wage cuts since they imply an interruption in the …-time employment spells. Estimation results for German women suggest that deviations from full-time employment are associated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445624
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Bullying at school and labour market outcomes
Drydakis, Nick - 2013
This study examines the long-term correlates of bullying in school with aspects of functioning in adult employment … outlines why bullying might affect employment outcomes through differences in skills and traits. Using Bivariate and Heckit … labour force participation, employment rate and hourly wages are negatively affected by bullying. In addition, men …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009754885
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Myanmar Human Capital Development, Employment, and Labor Markets
Tanaka, Sakiko - 2016
, with an emphasis on health and education in the context of employment growth and an employment-enabling environment. While …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013002392
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The role of skills and tasks in changing employment trends and income inequality in Chile
Zapata-Román, Gabriela - 2021
Using decomposition methods, we analyse the role of the changing nature of work in explaining changes in employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012483436
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Do Double Majors Face Less Risk? : An Analysis of Human Capital Diversification
Hanks, Andrew S.; Jiang, Shengjun; Qian, Xuechao; Wang, Bo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study how human capital diversification, in the form of double majoring, affects the response of earnings to labor market shocks. Double majors experience substantial protection against earnings shocks, of 56%. This finding holds across different model specifications and data sets....
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The economic consequences of "Brain Drain" of the best and brightest : microeconomic evidence from five countries
Gibson, John K.; McKenzie, David J. - 2010
Brain drain has long been a common concern for migrant-sending countries, particularly for small countries where high-skilled emigration rates are highest. However, while economic theory suggests a number of possible benefits, in addition to costs, from skilled emigration, the evidence base on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008809999
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The Economic Consequences of 'Brain Drain' of the Best and Brightest : Microeconomic Evidence from Five Countries
Gibson, John - 2010
Brain drain has long been a common concern for migrant-sending countries, particularly for small countries where high-skilled emigration rates are highest. However, while economic theory suggests a number of possible benefits, in addition to costs, from skilled emigration, the evidence base on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139051
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Implications of the changing nature of work for employment and inequality in Ghana
Gradín, Carlos; Schotte, Simone - 2020
In this paper, we analyse the role of the changing nature of occupational employment and wages in explaining the trend … in earnings inequality in Ghana between 2006 and 2017, a period in which there was a substantial transformation of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299768