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The paper discusses gender differences with regard to the self- and reciprocal estimation of career expectations …-under-estimated career prospects of female workers and statistical discrimination in the labor market are described. Both aspects are jointly … empirical part analysis the respective self- and reciprocal estimation of female and male career prospects for public sector …
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This paper analyzes the determinants of annual worker reallocation across disaggregated occupations in western Germany for the period 1985-2003. Employing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, the pattern of average occupational mobility is documented. Worker reallocation is found to be...
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Increasingly researchers include information about noncognitive abilities in their analyses of similar people's educational choices and subsequent labor market outcomes. We contribute to this literature by considering the dual roles of confidence in one's abilities and noncognitive skills and...
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productivity-enhancing (human capital) returns seem to be less pronounced. Over the expected course of career, we find lasting …
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-enhancing (human capital) returns seem to be less pronounced. Over the expected course of career, we find lasting education premia as …
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Thurow's job-competition model implies that overeducation is contingent upon the differing skill endowments of employees. As yet, only rudimentary evidence has been furnished to confirm this relationship. In the present paper, we test the theory in a more sophisticated manner, by means of a more...
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Career mobility theory suggests that given a certain occupation, schooling improves upward mobility in terms of … promoted and that this career mobility advantage is more pronounced in the early stages of their working lives. By contrast …. Altogether, these findings strongly support the career mobility theory. Furthermore, by differentiating between internal and …
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overqualification is highly persistent among tertiary graduates over the first ten years of their career cycle. Accounting for … persistence of overqualification. In particular, selection into initial overqualification at the start of the career is of high …
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wages, and the issue of how the existence of task structures, or career ladders, affect wages becomes paramount. Using data …
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