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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 …Models in which employers learn about the productivity of young workers, such as Altonji and Pierret (2001), have two … principal implications: First, the distribution of wages becomes more dispersed as a cohort of workers gains experience; second …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003974544
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Overeducation, undereducation, and the theory of career mobility
Büchel, Felix; Mertens, Antje - 2000
The theory of career mobility (Sicherman and Galor 1990) claims that wage penalties for overeducated workers are … with higher human capital requirements as an indicator for upward career mobility, was successful and confirmed by Robst … affects the stability of the results, because career mobility is mainly observed from jobs with low qualification requirements …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339103
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Overeducation, undereducation, and the theory of career mobility
Büchel, Felix; Mertens, Antje - 2001
The theory of career mobility (Sicherman and Galor 1990) claims that wage penalties for overeducated workers are … undereducated workers enjoy higher rates of relative wage growth. Our results cast serious doubt on the career mobility model, at … and upward career mobility, the plausibility of our results is supported by the finding that overeducated workers have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009616783
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The promise of workplace training for non-college-bound youth : theory and evidence from German apprenticeship
Clark, Damon; Fahr, René - 2001
This paper assesses the potential of "workplace training" with reference to German Apprenticeship. When occupational matching is important, we derive conditions under which firms provide "optimal" training packages. Since the German system broadly meets these conditions, we evaluate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403966
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Overeducation, Undereducation, and the Theory of Career Mobility
Büchel, Felix; Mertens, A. - 2021
The theory of career mobility (Sicherman and Galor 1990) claims that wage penalties for overeducated workers are … with higher human capital requirements as an indicator for upward career mobility, was successful and confirmed by Robst … affects the stability of the results, because career mobility is mainly observed from jobs with low qualification requirements …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321240
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Self-Selection and Earnings During Volatile Transition
Dimova, Ralitza D.; Gang, Ira N. - 2021
Using Bulgarian Integrated Household Surveys for 1995, 1997 and 2001 this paper explores determinants of labor force status - not working, public sector employment, private sector employment and self-employment - and earnings for each of the three employment sectors. We find that while skilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319251
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Promotion prospects and within-level wage growth : a decomposition of the part-time penalty for women
Ilieva, Boryana - 2023
part-time wage penalty consists of two essential components: i) a penalty for promotions and ii) a within-career-level wage … accumulation within career levels. A part-time spell of four years marks the point at which forgone chances of promotion and within …
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Low-wage jobs : stepping stone or poverty trap?
Knabe, Andreas; Plum, Alexander - 2010
We examine whether low-paid jobs have an effect on the occupational advancement probability of unemployed persons to obtain better-paid jobs in the future (stepping-stone effect). We make use of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and apply a dynamic random-effects probit model. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008796259
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Low-wage jobs : stepping stone or poverty trap?
Knabe, Andreas; Plum, Alexander - 2010
We examine whether low-paid jobs have an effect on the occupational advancement probability of unemployed persons to obtain better-paid jobs in the future (stepping-stone effect). We make use of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and apply a dynamic random-effects probit model. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008827014
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Promotion and wages in mid-career : gender, unionism, and sector
Addison, John T.; Ozturk, Orgul Demet; Wang, Si - 2012
, using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79). Its focus is upon mid-career promotion and wages … negative, and not just for females. -- mid-career ; early career ; promotion ; wages ; wage growth ; gender ; unionism ; public …This paper considers the role of gender in the promotion process and the impact of promotion on wages and wage growth …
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