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If you are so smart, why aren't you an entrepreneur?
Hartog, Joop; Praag, Mirjam van; Sluis, Justin van der - 2008
questions: (1) To what extent does a composite measure of ability affect an entrepreneur's earnings relative to employees? (2 …) Do different cognitive abilities (e.g. math ability, language ability) and social ability affect earnings of … entrepreneurs and employees differently?, and (3) Does the balance in these measured ability levels affect an individual's earnings …
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Monopsony power and labor income inequality in Mexico
Cazzuffi, Chiara; Pereira-López, Mariana; Rosales, Irving - 2023
We examine the impact of changes in local labor market concentration on two components of income inequality in Mexico: local wage shares and labor income inequality. Combining data from the Economic Census and the Population and Housing Censuses, we analyze the mechanisms that drive the...
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Sexual orientation and labor market outcomes : sexual orientation seems to affect job access and satisfaction, earning prospects, and interaction with colleagues
Drydakis, Nick - 2014
Studies from countries with laws against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation suggest that gay and lesbian employees report more incidents of harassment and are more likely to report experiencing unfair treatment in the labor market than are heterosexual employees. Gay men are found...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422736
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Trade, wages, and profits
Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter; Kreickemeier, Udo - 2012
This paper formulates a structural empirical model of heterogeneous firms whose workers exhibit fair-wage preferences, leading to a link between a firm's operating profits and wages of workers employed by this firm. We estimate the parameters of the model in a data-set of five European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009581985
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Trade, wages, and profits
Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter; Kreickemeier, Udo - 2011
This paper formulates a structural empirical model of heterogeneous firms whose workers exhibit fair-wage preferences. In the underlying theoretical framework, such preferences lead to a link between a firm's operating profits on the one hand and wages of workers employed by this firm on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009404745
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Trade, Wages, and Profits
Egger, Hartmut - 2012
This paper formulates a structural empirical model of heterogeneous firms whose workers exhibit fair-wage preferences, leading to a link between a firm's operating profits and wages of workers employed by this firm. We estimate the parameters of the model in a data-set of five European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101194
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The more the gloomier : development of informal employment and its effect on wages in Turkey
Duman, Anil; Duman, Alper - 2021
individual and firm level characteristics. It has also been shown that earnings differentials across these sectors are quite … distribution. Second, we demonstrate that returns to informality vary significantly across quantiles even after a matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012548495
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The More the Gloomier : Development of Informal Employment and Its Effect on Wages in Turkey
Duman, Anil; Duman, Alper - 2021
individual and firm level characteristics. It has also been shown that earnings differentials across these sectors are quite … distribution. Second, we demonstrate that returns to informality vary significantly across quantiles even after a matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013223662
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Do grow-your-own programs work? : evidence from the Teacher Academy of Maryland
Blazar, David; Gao, Wenjing; Gershenson, Seth; Goings, … - 2024
Local teacher recruitment through "grow-your-own" programs is a prominent strategy to address workforce shortages and ensure that incoming teachers resemble, understand, and have strong connections to their communities. We exploit the staggered rollout of the Teacher Academy of Maryland career...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014529819
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Segmented life-cycle labor markets : Portuguese evidence
Martins, Ana Paula - 2011
across sectors, is limited, it is argued that coefficients of experience in earnings regressions may capture or be … interpreted as the growth rate - net of depreciation - of earnings ability propitiated by schooling when years of education are … is compatible with different "gross" rates of return to schooling, provided initial earnings levels allow for the same …
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