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Earnings returns to education, experience and health : evidence from EU-SILC

Flores, Manuel; Pena-Boquete, Yolanda - 2013 - (Very preliminary version)

to what extend wage differentials across European countries are explained by differences in education, actual experience … and health. The human capital literature suggests an important role for these variables in explaining wage patterns …

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A question of gender? : how promotions affect earnings

Bächmann, Ann-Christin; Zucco, Aline - 2020

Occupational positions can explain an important part of the differences in pay between men and women. However, a considerable Gender Pay Gap exists even within the same occupational position. In this paper, we aim at understanding the reasons for the gap within occupational positions and,...

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Ageing of the workforce and wages : does the type of occupation matter?

Majchrowska, Aleksandra; Broniatowska, Paulina - In: Eastern European economics : EEE 57 (2019) 4, pp. 331-348

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Retail productivity in space : capturing productivity returns to market potential in the Swedish retail sector

Öner, Özge - 2013

This paper addresses the relationship between productivity in the retail sector and market size. In the paper, the systematic variations between central and non-central retail markets, as well as the systematic variations across different types of retailing activities are investigated. The...

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Downward drifting sticky floors? : evidence on the development of wage inequality among foreigners in Germany

Ludsteck, Johannes; Lehmer, Florian - 2013 - Preliminary and incomplete

We employ the German social security register data to analyze the development of wage inequality among foreigners in … Germany. The data show a sharp increase of wage inequality which exceeds the size observed for natives. The decomposition … methods proposed by DiNardo et al. (1996) are employed to investigate whether the increase in wage inequality can be explained …

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Education or creativity : what matters most for economic performance?

Marrocu, Emanuela; Paci, Raffaele - 2011

There is a large consensus among social researchers on the positive role played by human capital on economic performances. The standard way to measure the human capital endowment is to consider the educational attainments by the resident population, usually the share of people with a university...

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The productive city needs both : localization and urbanization economies across spatial scales in the city

Andersson, Martin; Larsson, Johan P.; Lundblad, Joakim - 2015 - This version 2015-01-16

-level production function to show that close proximity to employment density in the own industry, as well as city-wide diversity …

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Heterogeneous firms and substitution by tasks : the productivity effect of migrants : paper prepared for the ERSA Congress 21- 25 August 2012, Bratislava

Haas, Anette; Lucht, Michael - 2012

Economic debate about the consequences of immigration in Germany has largely focused on the wage effects for natives at … wage differences between natives and migrants. This wage differences lead to wage cost advantages for firms. In the long … compensate their lower productivity level by wage cost advantages. We show that the increase of productivity might be explained …

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Are firms in business groups more productive? : an empirical analysis based on German micro-level data with a special emphasis on the roles of regional and sectoral diversity

Biewen, Elena; Koch, Andreas - 2012 - Preliminiary version

The present paper analyses whether and how the affiliation of a firm to a business group affects its productivity. Based on novel data consisting of official firm data from the German Business Register including ownership information from Bureau van Dijk's MARKUS database and from the Cost...

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Urban wage premium increasing with education level : identification of agglomeration effects for Norway

Carlsen, Fredrik; Rattsø, Jørn; Stokke, Hildegunn Ekroll - 2012 - First draft: February 15, 2012

Income levels are higher in cities. The evidence for the income gap between urban and rural areas is overwhelming, but the agglomeration effect is hard to identify. Recent advances make use of individual level data to separate out sorting and instrumentation to handle the endogeneity of...

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