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Returns to postgraduate education in Portugal : holding on to a higher ground?
Almeida, André; Figueiredo, Hugo; Cerejeira, João; … - 2017
In this paper we use a large official employer-employee dataset, which includes almost the whole universe of business firms, to document and decompose the rising graduates postgraduates' wage differentials in Portugal. Using a non-parametric matching exercise, we pay particular attention to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012111543
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Returns to postgraduate education in Portugal : holding on to a higher ground?
Almeida, Andre; Figueiredo, Hugo; Cerejeira, João; … - 2017
In this paper we use a large official employer-employee dataset, which includes almost the whole universe of business firms, to document and decompose the rising graduates postgraduates' wage differentials in Portugal. Using a non-parametric matching exercise, we pay particular attention to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636681
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Non-wage job values and implications for inequality
Lehmann, Tobias - 2023
I study inequality in job values, both in terms of wages and non-wage values, in Austria over the period 1996 to 2011 … the distribution of job value among workers and find a positive correlation between wage and non-wage value. Inequality in … job value is thus considerably greater than wage inequality, reflected in the standard deviation of job value being more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014443868
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Industrial relations and the wage differentials between skilled and unskilled blue-collar workers within establishments : an empirical analysis with data of manufacturing firms
Hübler, Olaf; Meyer, Wolfgang - 2000
Increased wage inequality between skilled and unskilled workers is a stylized fact, which can be observed in many …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336867
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Skill demand and wages : evidence from linked vacancy data
Ziegler, Lennart - 2021
This study provides new evidence on skill requirements in the labor market and shows to what extent skill demand is associated with wages and vacancy duration. Using more than 1.5 million job postings administered by the Austrian public employment service, I identify the most common skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012583545
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Does background matter? : the transmission of human capital from a planned to a market economy
Gang, Ira N.; Stuart, Robert C. - 1999
We analyze the early U.S. economic achievement of former Soviet citizens entering the United States during the period 1979 through 1985. Using the Soviet Interview project (SIP) data, we identify components of human capital acquired in the former Soviet Union (FSU), relating these to labor force...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011577039
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Skill premiums and the supply of young workers in Germany
Glitz, Albrecht; Wissmann, Daniel - 2017
medium-skilled workers which caused wage inequality at the lower part of the distribution to increase in recent decades. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688036
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Catching up is hard to do : undergraduate prestige, elite graduate programs, and the earnings premium
Hersch, Joni - 2019
A commonly held perception is that an elite graduate degree can "scrub" a less prestigious but less costly undergraduate degree. Using data from the National Survey of College Graduates from 2003 through 2017, this paper examines the relationship between the status of undergraduate degrees and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012116308
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Assessing the incidence and wage effects of overeducation among Italian graduates using a new measure for educational requirements
Cattani, Luca; Guidetti, Giovanni; Pedrini, Giulio - 2014
This paper investigates three dimensions of overeducation: incidence, impact on earnings and possible determinants. The analysis focuses on Italian graduates and refers to the cohort that graduated in 2007 using data from the AlmaLaurea survey on graduates' career paths. A new measure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011730104
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Skill premiums and the supply of young workers in Germany
Glitz, Albrecht; Wissmann, Daniel - 2017
medium-skilled workers which caused wage inequality at the lower part of the distribution to increase in recent decades. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011709378