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Will Skill Mismatches Persist? An Investigation into the Effect of Skill Shortages on Wages in the UK
Morris, David - 2018
This article explores whether a relationship exists between the skill shortages that a market faces, and the wages in … that workers in markets with higher levels of skill shortages receive higher wages, although this effect is minimal. For …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014128094
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Which Workers Earn More at Productive Firms? Position Specific Skills and Individual Worker Hold-up Power
Bloesch, Justin; Larsen, Birthe; Taska, Bledi - 2022
firms to pay differentially high wages. We estimate individual worker hold-up power by occupation using the effect of worker … permanent firm productivity innovations to wages, supporting the main model predictions. Accounting for heterogeneity in hold …) hold-up power decreases the responsiveness of wages to labor market slack …
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Skill mismatch and the costs of job displacement
Neffke, Frank; Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Wiederhold, Simon - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - 2024 - This version: January 14, 2024
Establishment closures have lasting negative consequences for the workers they displace from their jobs. We study how these consequences vary with the amount of skill mismatch that workers experience after job displacement. Developing new measures of occupational skill redundancy and skill...
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The impact of skill mismatch on earnings losses after job displacement : conference paper
Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Neffke, Frank; Wiederhold, Simon - 2013
The long-term earnings losses of displaced workers are substantial. We investigate the role of post-displacement occupational matching in explaining the cost of job displacement. We combine German administrative data on the work history of displaced workers with information on the task content...
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Global skill partnerships : a proposal for technical training in a mobile world
Clemens, Michael A. - In: IZA journal of labor policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-18
Skilled workers emigrate from developing countries in rising numbers, raising fears of a drain on the human and financial resources of the countries they leave. This paper critiques existing policy proposals to address the development effects of skilled migration. It then proposes a new kind of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010479961
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Wage Dispersion, Over-Qualification, and Reder Competition
Schlicht, Ekkehart - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 1 (2007) 2007-13, pp. 1-31
competition that depicts wages as driven by labor heterogeneity, rather than scarcity. The mechanism may give rise to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295296
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Wage Dispersion, Over-Qualification, and Reder Competition
Schlicht, Ekkehart - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 1 (2008) 2007-13 (Version 2), pp. 1-22
competition that depicts wages as driven by labor heterogeneity, rather than scarcity. The mechanism may give rise to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298812
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Wage Dispersion and Overqualification as Entailed by Reder Competition
Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2007
The expansion of higher education in the Western countries has been accompanied by a marked widening of wage differentials and increasing overqualification. While the increase in wage differentials has been attributed to skill-biased technological change that made advanced skills scarce, this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427493
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Wage dispersion and overqualification as entailed by Reder competition
Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2007
The expansion of higher education in the Western countries has been accompanied by a marked widening of wage differentials and increasing overqualification. While the increase in wage differentials has been attributed to skill-biased technological change that made advanced skills scarce, this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003951369
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The schooling response to a sustained increase in low-skill wages : evidence from Spain 1989-2009
Lacuesta, Aitor; Puente, Sergio; Villanueva, Ernesto - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 11 (2020) 4, pp. 457-499
forms of human capital acquisition to relative increases in low-skill wages. We measure the expected returns to schooling … using skill-specific wages bargained in collective agreements at the province-industry level. We argue that those wages are … that a 10% increase in the ratio of wages of unskilled workers to the wages of mid-skill workers increases the fraction of …
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