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Learning through Coworker Referrals
Glitz, Albrecht; Vejlin, Rune Majlund - 2019
In this paper, we study the role of coworker referrals for labor market outcomes. Using comprehensive Danish administrative data covering the period 1980 to 2005, we first document a strong tendency of workers to follow their former coworkers into the same establishments and provide evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005971
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Learning through coworker referrals
Glitz, Albrecht; Vejlin, Rune Majlund - 2019
In this paper, we study the role of coworker referrals for labor market outcomes. Using comprehensive Danish administrative data covering the period 1980 to 2005, we first document a strong tendency of workers to follow their former coworkers into the same establishments and provide evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011997660
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Do labor market networks have an important spatial dimension?
Hellerstein, Judith K.; Kutzbach, Mark J.; Neumark, David - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2013
We test for evidence of spatial, residence-based labor market networks. Turnover is lower for workers more connected to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010668414
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Fertility Decisions and Gender Differences in Labor Turnover, Employment, and Wages
Erosa, Andrés; Fuster, Luisa; Restuccia, Diego - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 5 (2002) 4, pp. 856-891
fertility on gender differences in labor turnover, employment, and wages. In our framework, individuals search for jobs and …, employment, and wages. We find that fertility decisions generate important gender differences in turnover rates, with long … lasting effects in employment and wages. These differences in labor turnover account for almost all the U.S. gender wage gap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005027364
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What effects could global value chain and digital infrastructure development policies have on poverty and inequality after COVID-19?
Del Carpio, Ximena V.; Cuesta, José; Kugler, Maurice; … - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 15 (2022) 2, pp. 1-29
development (DID)-which can boost telework and virtual human capital accumulation. Reduction in poverty and inequality through … project their impact on poverty and inequality up to 2030. Our findings show limited impact of the three types of policy …) lower barriers to foreign direct investment (FDI). The impact of DID on inequality is also moot. There is however a modest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013201347
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What effects could global value chain and digital infrastructure development policies have on poverty and inequality after COVID-19?
Del Carpio, Ximena V.; Cuesta, José; Kugler, Maurice; … - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 2, pp. 1-29
development (DID)-which can boost telework and virtual human capital accumulation. Reduction in poverty and inequality through … project their impact on poverty and inequality up to 2030. Our findings show limited impact of the three types of policy …) lower barriers to foreign direct investment (FDI). The impact of DID on inequality is also moot. There is however a modest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012816153
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Unobserved Individual and Firm Heterogeneity in Wage and Tenure Functions: Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data
Cornelißen, Thomas; Hübler, Olaf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We estimate wage and job tenure functions that include individual and firm effects capturing time-invariant unobserved worker and firm heterogeneity using German linked employeremployee data (LIAB data set). We find that both types of heterogeneity are correlated to the observed characteristics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822234
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Relative Wage Positions and Quit Behavior: New Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
Pfeifer, Christian; Schneck, Stefan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leibniz … - 2010
We use a large linked employer-employee data set to analyze the importance of relative wage positions in the context of individual quit decisions as an inverse measure of job satisfaction. Our main findings are: (1) Workers with higher relative wage positions within their firms are on average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512170
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Dual Track or Academic Route for Auditors
Jonker, Nicole; Ophem, Hans van; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002
In the Netherlands auditors can be trained in a part-time educational track in which students combine working and studying or in a full-time educational track. The former training is relatively firm-specific whereas the latter training is relatively general. Applying human capital theory, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257420
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Relative Wage Positions and Quit Behavior: New Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
Pfeifer, Christian; Schneck, Stefan - 2010
We use a large linked employer-employee data set to analyze the importance of relative wage positions in the context of individual quit decisions as an inverse measure of job satisfaction. Our main findings are: (1) Workers with higher relative wage positions within their firms are on average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008621684