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Zu alt für einen Wechsel? Zum Zusammenhang von Alter, Lohndifferentialen und betrieblicher Mobilität
Schneider, Lutz - 2007
Due to the well known fact of a reduced mobility of older employees the workforce aging will have strong consequences …
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Aging and inequality : the perspective of labor income share
Wang, Chen; Wan, Guanghua; Luo, Zhi; Zhang, Xun - 2017
Despite a growing literature on population aging, empirical studies exploring mechanisms between aging and income … inequality are scarce. This paper estimates the impact of aging on inequality via the perspective of labor income share, based on … cross-country information covering the period 1990-2010. Two transmission mechanisms are examined - aging leads to a …
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The creativity premium
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2021
Success in life increasingly depends on key skills that allow people to thrive in education, the labor market, and their interactions with others. In this paper, we emphasize creativity as a key skill that is essential to open-ended problem solving and resistant to automation. We use rich...
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Disability and labor market outcomes : disability is associated with labor market disadvantage : recent evidence points to a causal relationship
Jones, Melanie - 2016
In Europe, about one in eight people of working age report having a disability; that is, the presence of a long-term limiting health condition. Despite the introduction of a range of legislative and policy initiatives designed to eliminate discrimination and facilitate retention of and entry...
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Heterogeneity and Earning Dissatisfaction of Elderly Labourforce in India
Ghosh, Dona - 2017
This paper attempts to find the drivers of choice of various occupations during old age and related earning dissatisfaction. Old age workforce participation in India is largely characterized by distress driven and therefore assumed to be associated with vulnerabilities in working conditions....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954435
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Heterogeneity and Earning Dissatisfaction of Elderly Labourforce in India
Ghosh, Dona - 2017
This paper attempts to find the drivers of choice of various occupations during old age and related earning dissatisfaction. Old age workforce participation in India is largely characterized by distress driven and therefore assumed to be associated with vulnerabilities in working conditions....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954444
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Combating Inequality : The Between- and Within-Group Effects of Unionization on Earnings for People with Different Disabilities
Pettinicchio, David - 2020
This paper addresses whether and how unions help to dismantle workplace inequality experienced by people with different types of disabilities. Using pooled 2009-2018 CPS MORG data of 630,799 respondents covering almost a decade, we find that union membership is especially beneficial for people...
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Ageing, Productivity and Wages in Austria : Evidence from a Matched Employer-Employee Data Set at the Sector Level
Mahlberg, Bernhard - 2012
In this paper we analyze the link between the age structure of the labor force and average labor productivity at the intermediate level of economic sectors. The analysis is based on a panel data set ranging over six years (2002-2007) and covers the sectors of mining, manufacturing and market...
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What Is Left to Residual Claimants? : The Empirics of Income Reported by Entrepreneurs and Workers
Poutvaara, Panu; Tuomala, Juha - 2004
Using Finnish panel data, we study how entrepreneurs differ from workers in education and income dynamics. We find that workers have higher median income in all educational groups. Without additional controls, entrepreneurs have higher average income with all but undergraduate level of...
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The importance of skill measurement for growth accounting
Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Raknerud, Arvid; Rybalka, Marina; … - 2010
In a growth accounting context one usually constructs a quality adjusted index of labor services by aggregating over predefined groups of workers, using the groups' relative wage bills as weights. In this article we suggest a method based on decomposing individual predicted wages into a...
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