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skilled workers or just increasing the overall average wages. On the supply side, FDI can enrich the skilled labour force of … effects of FDI, but finds positive demand side effect of FDI of raising wage inequality and average wages. The results remain …
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decline in the demand for and the real wages of this group after 2000. We investigate empirically, whether there has been a … education attainment and wages over time, we put a particular focus on changes of the task composition, the chances of entering … top-paying jobs, entry wages and wage growth, and skill premia over time. To allow for a detailed analysis, we distinguish …
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This paper provides precise figures on the incidence and wage penalties of mismatching in Germany. We use the BIBB/BAuA Employment Survey 2006 to compute two different measures of person-to-job matching. A first measure indicates an educational (mis)match, i.e., whether a worker’s attained...
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Community Survey to examine the effect of formal schooling on worker wages. Given the potential endogeneity of education … censuses. The instrumental variables results suggest that schooling has a significant positive effect on worker wages …. Specifically, an additional year or schooling is estimated to increase hourly wages by 10 percent for men and 12.6 percent for …
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This paper examines the impact of innovations and wages on the demand for heterogeneous labour. Based on matched data …. This result implies that more flexible wages of the unskilled would reduce the unemployment of this group. Finally, our …
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This paper presents an application of the Generalised Error Correction Model (GECM) for heterogeneous factor demands based on the quadratic cost function. Using data for 26 West German manufacturing industries over the period 1976-1995, it turns out that less general specifications such as the...
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This paper examines the impact of innovations and wages on the demand for heterogeneous labour. Based on matched data …. This result implies that more flexible wages of the unskilled would reduce the unemployment of this group. Finally, our …
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In 30% of young American couples the wife is more educated than the husband. Those women are characterized by a substantially higher employment (all else equal), which in turn amplifies income inequality across couples. Using NLSY79, we formulate and structurally estimate a dynamic life-cycle...
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associated with wages and vacancy duration. Using more than 1.5 million job postings administered by the Austrian public … jobs to wage postings. Moreover, I estimate skill associations with starting wages for a subset of vacancies which can be … occupation fixed-effects, there exists a robust association between the number of skill requirements and wages. In particular …
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