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social skills tasks, workers enjoy greater wage progression with tenure and also accrue higher returns in firms with a higher …
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with few formal educational qualifications. We show that lower educated workers in occupations where social skills are more … important experience steeper wage growth with tenure, and also higher early exit rates, than equivalent workers in occupations … where social skills are less important. Moreover, the return to tenure in occupations where social skills are important is …
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with few formal educational qualifications. We show that lower educated workers in occupations where social skills are more … important experience steeper wage growth with tenure, and also higher early exit rates, than equivalent workers in occupations … where social skills are less important. Moreover, the return to tenure in occupations where social skills are important is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014382140
This paper studies the evolution of individual earnings inequality and dynamics in Canada from 1983 to 2016 using tax files and administrative records. Linking individual tax filers to their employers (and rich administrative records on firms) beginning in 2001, it also documents the...
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In West Germany, the average size of establishments declined during the 1990s and started to increase again in the late 2000s, while the employer size wage premium followed the opposite trajectory. In this paper, we show that these two developments are interrelated. More precisely, our results...
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Wage penalties in overqualified employment are well documented, but little is known regarding the underlying mechanisms. We test two explanations, namely, formal overqualification and a mismatch of occupational skills. By using the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) survey that is linked to...
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tasks, assessed for individuals at their workplace. I am therefore able to exploit within-occupation within … are reassessed. Unobserved worker attributes and ongoing self-selection into occupations can be accounted for in a much …
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reflecting good assignment of people to jobs and/or tasks - on productivity and, thus, production. …
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Higher wages increase labor costs but improve the productivity of the labor force through several channels. If firms take this into account and set their wages accordingly, the resulting wages may fail to adjust demand and supply but may engender phenomena like over-education, discrimination,...
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This paper analyzes the labor market effects of offshoring in a high-wage home country and how these effects crucially depend on (1) job complexity and (2) the characteristics of the destination country. It thereby links several sources: rich administrative data on individuals and plants in the...
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