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The wages of sin
Edlund, Lena; Engelberg, Joseph; Parsons, Christopher A. - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003909458
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Do High Wage Footballers Play for High Wage Teams? The case of Major League Soccer
Scarfe, Rachel - 2019
Intuition and sports knowledge suggest the most talented professional footballers play for the best teams, i.e. positive assortative matching based on productivity. We consider Major League Soccer between 2007 and 2017. We estimate a wage equation, finding that player and team fixed wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012896998
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Wages, Productivity and Aging
Dostie, Benoit - 2021
In this article, we estimate age based wage and productivity differentials using linked employer-employee Canadian data from the Workplace and Employee Survey 1999-2003. Data on the firm side is used to estimate production functions taking into account the age profile of the firm's workforce....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317293
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Low wage returns to schooling in a developing country : evidence from a major policy reform in Turkey
Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2015
In this paper, we estimate the returns on schooling for young men and women in Turkey using the exogenous and … among 18- to 26-year-olds, the return from an extra year of schooling is almost zero for men and 3.8 percent for women. The … reasons why the returns on schooling are low and why they are higher for women in our context. In particular, the policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309044
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Which human capital characteristics best predict the earnings of economic immigrants?
Bonikowska, Aneta; Hou, Feng; Picot, Garnett - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011379672
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Human capital risk and the firmsize wage premium
Leung, Danny (contributor);  … - 2008
as they change jobs, voluntarily or involuntarily. The model, calibrated to the United States and Canada, accounts for … one-third of the firmsize wage premium. Regarding the earnings gap between Canada and the United States, the model finds …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003773015
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Understanding the wage patterns of Canadian less skilled workers : the role of implicit contracts
Green, David A.; Townsend, James - 2009
We examine the wage patterns of Canadian less skilled male workers over the last quarter century by organizing workers into job entry cohorts. We find entry wages for successive cohorts declined until 1997, and then began to recover. Wage profiles steepened for cohorts entering after 1997, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003902615
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Occupational mobility, occupation distance and specific human capital
Robinson, Chris - 2011
Measures of occupation distance based on underlying skill portfolios are constructed and used to contrast involuntary and total mobility. One component of total occupational mobility is voluntary mobility, including moves to higher job offers using the same skills, as well as promotions that may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009267720
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Employer Policies and the Immigrant-Native Earnings Gap
Dostie, Benoit - 2020
on the level and change in immigrant-native wage differences in Canada. We focus on immigrants who arrived in the early … earnings inequality in Canada and contribute to the average earnings gap between immigrants and natives.In the decade after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833878
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Employer policies and the immigrant-native earnings gap
Dostie, Benoît; Li, Jiang; Card, David E.; Parent, Daniel - 2020
on the level and change in immigrant-native wage differences in Canada. We focus on immigrants who arrived in the early … earnings inequality in Canada and contribute to the average earnings gap between immigrants and natives. In the decade after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213959