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experience. Allowing workers to learn from experience generates a decline in job finding probabilities with age that is … consistent with patterns found in the data. Moreover, workers with more past experience will on average have less wage volatility … fans out with experience, this second result implies that individual wage changes become more predictable. …
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This article investigates the extent to which personality traits and cognitive skills can be seen as potential determinants of overeducation, and can explain the overeducation wage penalty. Using a representative survey of the Polish working-age population with well-established measures of...
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producing output, we empirically test whether part of the observed variation in wages across similar individuals is related to …
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wages. The estimated average treatment effects on the treated range from 5.5 to 7.2 percent for men and 7.1 to 9.0 for women …
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This study investigates the long-term effects of peace-time military conscription on educational attainment and earnings by exploiting a policy change that exempted a complete birth cohort from military service. We find that compulsory military service decreases the proportion of Dutch...
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The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied extensively. Using Swedish register data from 2001 - 2008, we extend the immigrant educational mismatch literature by analyzing incidence, wage effects and state dependence in...
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This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination …
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set optimal wages disregarding reward for work effort with more productive workers receiving higher wages and exerting …
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increasing the employment rate, especially among women. However, part-time work comes at a cost of lower wages for workers …
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, with the remaining accounted for by technology. In a counterintuitive fashion, we find that more compressed wages in the …
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