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Germany. We show evidence that job mobility is higher in the UK than in Germany, and that job movers may be negatively … selected in Germany, but not in the UK. Our findings suggest that returns to experience are substantially higher in the UK … in the UK and 30 percent in Germany. Separate estimates for different qualification groups show that in Germany, it is …
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Drawing on newly available panel data, this paper presents an empirical analysis of the wage effects of changing job tasks, assessed for individuals at their workplace. I am therefore able to exploit within-occupation within-individual variation, over time, to study wage returns to cognitive,...
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This paper jointly analyses the consequences of adverse selection and signalling on entry wages of skilled employees … job applicants based on apprenticeship wages. It shows that post-apprenticeship employer changers are a negative selection … from the training firms’ point of view. Negative selection leads to lower average wages of employer changersin the first …
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Though the shared investment hypothesis of human capital theory, i.e. that employers and employees share the costs of and the return on investment in firm-specific human capital, is widely accepted, we know little about the empirical evidence. The paper shows that in German data (1984-1991)...
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Low-wage jobs are often regarded as dead-ends in the labour market careers of young people. Previous research focused on disentangling to what degree the association between a low-wage job at the start of working life and limited chances of transitioning to better-paid employment is causal or...
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The long-term earnings losses of displaced workers are substantial. We investigate the role of post-displacement occupational matching in explaining the cost of job displacement. We combine German administrative data on the work history of displaced workers with information on the task content...
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applied to aggregate duration data. It does not require wage data, it is invariant to the way in which wages are determined … separate analyses for the USA, the UK, Germany and the Netherlands. We quantify the monopsony power due to search frictions and …
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impact on the individuals' wages one year after graduation. However, there appears to be a partial catchup towards luckier …
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wages and a simultaneous increase in travel-to-work distance. Nonetheless, when unobserved characteristics are accounted for …
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