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Gregariousness, Interactive Jobs and Wages
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Schulz, Nico Johannes - 2011
Gregariousness is an important aspect of human life with implications for labour market outcomes. The paper examines, to the best of our knowledge for the first time for Germany, gregariousness and social interaction at the workplace and associated wage differentials. Our empirical findings with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601005
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Gregariousness, interactive jobs and wages
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Schulz, Nico Johannes - 2011
Gregariousness is an important aspect of human life with implications for labour market outcomes. The paper examines, to the best of our knowledge for the first time for Germany, gregariousness and social interaction at the workplace and associated wage differentials. Our empirical findings with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008936437
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Employee Training and Wage Compression in Britain
Almeida-Santos, Filipe; Mumford, Karen - 2004
We use linked data for 1,460 workplaces and 19,853 employees from the Workplace Employee Relations Survey 1998 to analyse the incidence and duration of employee training in Britain. We find training to be positively associated with having a recognised vocational qualification and current union...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261946
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Employee training and wage dispersion: white and blue collar workers in Britain
Almeida-Santos, Filipe; Chzhen, Yekaterina; Mumford, Karen - 2010
levels of the recipient (white or blue collar); the age of the employee; and if the training is with the current employer or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269502
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Noncognitive skills, occupational attainment, and relative wages
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Tan, Michelle - 2009
This paper examines whether men's and women's noncognitive skills influence their occupational attainment and, if so, whether this contributes to the disparity in their relative wages. We find that noncognitive skills have a substantial effect on the probability of employment in many, though not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872720
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Does employer learning vary by occupation?
Mansour, Hani - 2010
growth in the variance of residual wages over the first ten years of the worker's career are also the occupations with high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003974544
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Lohnentwicklung im Lebenszyklus : eine Analyse von Ausmaß, Begründung und Heterogenität von Lohnsteigerungen
Orlowski, Robert; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2011
Der Beitrag fasst die Ergebnisse einer Reihe von Untersuchungen zusammen, die sich auf Basis der Daten des deutschen Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) mit der Lohnstruktur auf deutschen Arbeitsmärkten beschäftigen. Die Analysen nutzen neben Kleinstquadrateschätzern die von Altonji und...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839547
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Gender segregation and gender wage differences during the early labour market career
Bechara, Peggy - 2012
labour market and its development during workers' early career. The analysis contributes to the existing research on gender … career in lower-paying occupations and establishments. With progressing labour market experience, however, gender segregation …. Therefore, part of the early career wage gap remains unexplained. -- Gender wage gap ; early career ; labour market segregation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580106
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Multiple glass ceilings
Russo, Giovanni; Hassink, Wolter H. J. - 2011
Both vertical (between job levels) and horizontal (within job levels) mobility can be sources of wage growth. We find that the glass ceiling operates at both margins. The unexplained part of the wage gap grows across job levels (glass ceiling at the vertical margin) and across the deciles of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310064
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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
How valuable are cognitive and social abilities for entrepreneurs’ incomes as compared to employees? We answer three 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376647