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Wages and employment : the role of occupational skills
Girsberger, Esther Mirjam; Koomen, Miriam; Krapf, Matthias - 2018
estimate a search and matching model for workers with a VET degree. Workers differ in interpersonal, cognitive and manual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011869894
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Wages and employment : the role of occupational skills
Girsberger, Esther Mirjam; Koomen, Miriam; Krapf, Matthias - 2018
estimate a search and matching model for workers with a VET degree. Workers differ in interpersonal, cognitive and manual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872260
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Occupational choice and matching in the labor market
Mak, Eric; Siow, Aloysius - 2017
Integrating Roy with Becker, this paper studies occupational choice and matching in the labor market. Our model … earnings inequality without significant changes in within firm inequality. The estimated model fits the earnings distribution … inequality is largely due to the increase in her educational attainment over the same years. A simulation of skilled biased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613424
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Job-to-job transitions and the wages of Australian workers
Deutscher, Nathan - 2019
Leading models of on-the-job search suggest that competition among firms for employed workers - reflected in higher job-to-job transition rates - is an important driver of real wages. Intuitively, workers are better placed to move or bargain for increases in wages, hours or promotions when they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138131
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The career effects of labour market conditions at entry
Andrews, Dan; Deutscher, Nathan; Hambur, Jonathan; … - 2020
This paper explores the effects of labour market conditions at graduation on an individual's work‑life over the following decade. Australians graduating into a state and year with a 5 percentage point higher youth unemployment rate can expect to earn roughly 8 per cent less in their first year...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012251116
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Tenure, experience, human capital and wages : a tractable equilibrium search model of wage dynamics
Bagger, Jesper; Fontaine, François; Postel-Vinay, Fabien; … - 2014 - rev.
We develop and estimate an equilibrium job search model of worker careers, allowing for human capital accumulation, employer heterogeneity and individual-level shocks. Career wage growth is decomposed into the contributions of human capital and job search, within and between jobs. Human capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010254832
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Unions and the labor market for managers
DiNardo, John E.; Hallock, Kevin F.; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2000
firm. Unions, by redistributing rents towards the workers, lead to lower employment and lower pay for managers. Using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333286
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Labor Market Entry Conditions, Wages and Job Mobility
Bachmann, Ronald - 2010
Economic conditions at the time of labour market entry can induce wage differentials between workers entering the labour market at different points in time. While the existence and persistence of these entry wage differentials are well documented, little is known about their interaction with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141755
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Informal search, bad search? : the effects of job search method on wages among rural migrants in urban China
Chen, Yuanyuan; Wang, Le; Zhang, Min - 2017
The use of informal job search method is prevalent in many countries. There is, however, no consensus in the literature on whether it actually matters for wages, and if it does, what are the underlying mechanisms. We empirically examine these issues specifically for rural migrants in urban...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735917
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Informal Search, Bad Search? The Effects of Job Search Method on Wages Among Rural Migrants in Urban China
Chen, Yuanyuan - 2017
The use of informal job search method is prevalent in many countries. There is, however, no consensus in the literature on whether it actually matters for wages, and if it does, what are the underlying mechanisms. We empirically examine these issues specifically for rural migrants in urban...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946563