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Introducing time-to-educate in a job search model
Becker, Sascha O. - 2005
market. At the same time, education is a time-consuming process, and enrolment and dropout decisions depend on expected … in finding a job. Standard models of job search and education assume that skills can be upgraded instantaneously (and … mostly in the form of on-the-job training) at a fixed cost. This paper models education as a time-consuming process, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267379
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Introducing time-to-educate in a job search model
Becker, Sascha O. - 2005
market. At the same time, education is a time-consuming process, and enrolment and dropout decisions depend on expected … in finding a job. Standard models of job search and education assume that skills can be upgraded instantaneously (and … mostly in the form of on-the-job training) at a fixed cost. This paper models education as a time-consuming process, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261362
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Introducing time-to-educate in a job search model
Becker, Sascha O. (contributor) - 2005
market. At the same time, education is a time-consuming process, and enrolment and dropout decisions depend on expected … in finding a job. Standard models of job search and education assume that skills can be upgraded instantaneously (and … mostly in the form of on-the-job training) at a fixed cost. This paper models education as a time-consuming process, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003189636
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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany
Gernandt, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2006
This paper investigates the evolution of wages and the recent tendency to rising wage inequality in Germany, based on the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) for 1984 to 2004. Between 1984 and 1994 the wage distribution was fairly stable. Wage inequality started to increase around 1994 in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297527
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Labor Supply Dynamics, Unemployment and Human Capital Investments
Wasmer, Etienne - 2002
becomes higher but there is no persistence of the supply shock. Higher education prevents this intertemporal multiplication of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262787
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Labor supply dynamics, unemployment and human capital investments
Wasmer, Etienne - 2002
becomes higher but there is no persistence of the supply shock. Higher education prevents this intertemporal multiplication of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410676
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Dual labour markets: A survey
Wapler, Rüdiger - 1999
Whereas the standard modern theories of unemployment were developed in the context of a single sector labour market, this paper presents a survey of how these theories can be integrated into a dual labour market setting. This approach dichotomises the labour market into two sectors, a primary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305092
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Union wage compression in a Right-to-Manage model
Vogel, Thorsten - 2007
Trade unions are consistently found to compress the wage distribution. Moreover, unemployment affects in particular low-skilled workers. The present paper argues that an extended Right-to-Manage model can account for both of these findings. In this model unions compress the wage distribution by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265663
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Union wage compression in a Right-to-Manage model
Vogel, Thorsten (contributor) - 2007
Trade unions are consistently found to compress the wage distribution. Moreover, unemployment affects in particular low-skilled workers. The present paper argues that an extended Right-to-Manage model can account for both of these findings. In this model unions compress the wage distribution by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003422977
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A tale of two academic tracks
Asali, Muhammad - 2018
Given asymmetric information, this paper explores the need for non-tenure-track jobs in academia alongside the usual tenure-track positions. It also explains the coexistence of these two types of jobs in research universities as an equilibrium phenomenon. The increased effort needed to produce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011820216