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offers advice on conducting an academic job search. It provides data, reports findings from published papers, describes …
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offers advice on conducting an academic job search. It provides data, reports findings from published papers, describes …
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This study examines the degree to which the effects of job loss depend on task usage and task distance to other jobs. We use linked employer-employee data and representative survey data on task usage and plant closures to identify individuals who have lost their jobs involuntarily. We find that...
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After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high … accounted for by a single proximate cause - rising employment and wages in low-education, in-person service occupations. We … automation. We find that in labor markets that were initially specialized in routine-intensive occupations, employment and wages …
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that an additional year of parental education increases sons' weekly wages by 11.7% after twenty years of experience and …
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administrative (social security) data from Italy between 1985 and 2016. During the time covered by our data, earnings inequality and … reforms contributed to the slowdown in labor productivity in Italy by delaying human capital accumulation (in the form of …
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principal implications: First, the distribution of wages becomes more dispersed as a cohort of workers gains experience; second … 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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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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We develop and estimate an equilibrium job search model of worker careers, allowing for human capital accumulation … and job search, within and between jobs. Human capital accumulation is largest for highly educated workers, and both human … capital accumulation and job search contribute to the observed concavity of wage-experience profiles. The contribution from …
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