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In vino pecunia? : the association between beverage-specific drinking behavior and wages
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2008
The positive association between moderate alcohol consumption and wages is well documented in the economic literature …-specific drinking behavior and wages. In our analysis, we disentangle the general wage effect of drinking into diverse effects for … different types of drinkers. Mincerian estimates reveal significant and positive relationships between wine drinkers and wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631967
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Social comparisons of wage increases and job satisfaction
Grund, Christian; Rubin, Maike - 2016
We combine status quo and social comparison considerations and investigate whether relative wage increases in the sense of differences between individual wage increases and wage increases of comparable employees are related to managers' job satisfaction. Using a panel data set of managers in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011502544
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The twin effects of globalization : evidence from a sample of Indian manufacturing firms
Daveri, Francesco; Manasse, Paolo; Serra, Danila - 2010
Employees of globalized firms face a riskier menu of labor market outcomes. They face a more uncertain stream of earnings and riskier employment prospects. However, they may also have stronger incentives to train and upgrade their skills and/or may benefit from more rapid careers. Hence, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008697164
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The returns to computer use revisited, again
Dostie, Benoît (contributor);  … - 2006
Using North American data, we revisit the question first broached by Krueger (1993) and re-examined by DiNardo and Pischke (1997) of whether there exists a real wage differential associated with computer use. Employing a mixed effects model to correct for both worker and workplace unobserved...
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Mobility across firms and occupations among graduates from apprenticeship
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Licklederer, Stefanie; Zwiener, Hanna - 2015
Distinguishing carefully between mobility across firms and across occupations, this study provides causal estimates of the wage effects of mobility among graduates from apprenticeship in Germany. Our instrumental variables approach exploits variation in regional labor market characteristics....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510683
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Mobility across firms and occupations among graduates from apprenticeship
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Licklederer, Stefanie; Zwiener, Hanna - 2015
Distinguishing carefully between mobility across firms and across occupations, this study provides causal estimates of the wage effects of mobility among graduates from apprenticeship in Germany. Our instrumental variables approach exploits variation in regional labor market characteristics....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513366
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Occupational attainment and earnings among immigrant groups : evidence from New Zealand
Maani, Sholeh A.; Dai, Mengyu; Inkson, Kerr - 2015
This paper concerns the prediction of career success among migrants. We focus specifically on the role of occupation as a mediating variable between the predictor variables education and time since migration, and the dependent variable career success as denoted by occupational status, linked to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346678
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Promotion policy, wage and firm size
Zax, Ori - 2012
wages positively correlated with the size of the firm employing them. To explain these findings the author augments the … their counterparts in smaller firms, while the laborers of the larger firms receive higher wages to compensate them for the … theory in a large class of plausible environments. -- Firm size and wages ; promotion decisions ; hierarchies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009611456
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Are individuals optimizing their wage path? : an analysis using linked employer-employee data
Schneck, Stefan (contributor) - 2008
This paper examines employer-to-employer mobility by describing the individual wage trajectories along the working career. The model, which is designed to introduce optimal between-firm mobility, is based on the search, the matching, and the human capital theory. It is emphasized that hopping...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003748082
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Dynamic monopsony : evidence from a French establishment panel
Fakhfakh, Fathi (contributor); FitzRoy, Felix R. (contributor) - 2005
monopsony or upward sloping labour supply curves for average firm wages. Panel estimates provide strong evidence of a much … compensating differentials with lagged wages, and for profitability (rent sharing). Employment expansion also has a positive effect … on wages, providing further evidence for upward sloping labour supply (as distinct from the effect of shocks in a …
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