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Maintaining (locus of) Control? Assessing the impact of locus of control on education decisions and wages
Piatek, Rémi; Pinger, Pia R. - 2010
comes from their own actions instead of being determined by luck or destiny, earn higher wages. However, this positive … of control on wages vanishes. Factor structure models are implemented on an augmented data set coming from two different …
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The geographic reach of knowledge spillovers: A functional regression approach with precise geo-referenced data
Eppelsheimer, Johann; Rust, Christoph - 2019
This paper applies functional regression to precise geo-coded register data to measure productivity spillovers from high-skilled workers. We use a smoothing splines estimator to model the spatial distribution of high-skilled workers as continuous curves. Our rich panel data allows us to address...
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The Skill Structure of the Export Wage Premium: Evidence from German Manufacturing
Klein, Michael W; Moser, Christoph; Urban, Dieter M. - 2010
We find a significant export wage premium for higher-skilled workers and a significant export wage discount for lower-skilled workers, using a matched employer-employee data set for German manufacturing firms. Estimates suggest that up to one third of the overall skill premia is associated with...
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Escaping low-earnings in Germany - do employer characteristics make a difference?
Heinze, Anja; Gürtzgen, Nicole - 2010
This paper studies the importance of employer-specific determinants in escaping low earnings in Germany. To address the initial conditions problem and the endogeneity of employer retention, we model (intra-firm) low-pay transitions using a multivariate Probit model that accounts for selection...
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The aims of lifelong learning: Age-related effects of training on wages and job security
Lang, Julia - 2012
This paper reports the effects of training participation on wages and perceived job security for employees of different … by an increase in wages, whereas older employees worries about losing their job are reduced. This observation can also be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010310136
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Wage Inequality and the Changing Organization of Work
Görlich, Dennis; Snower, Dennis J. - 2010
This paper sheds light on how changes in the organization of work lead to wage inequality. We present a theoretical model in which workers with a wider span of competence (higher level of multitasking) earn a wage premium. Since abilities and opportunities to expand the span of competence are...
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The Role of Parental Investments for cognitive and noncognitive skill formation - Evidence for the first 11 years of life
Reuß, Karsten; Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred - 2010
This paper examines the impact of parental investments on various skills during childhood using the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk (MARS). Our work offers three important innovations. First, we use reliable measures of the child's cognitive, mental and emotional skills as well as accurate...
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Continuous Training and Wages. An Empirical Analysis Using a Comparison-group Approach
Görlitz, Katja - 2010
Using German linked employer-employee data, this paper investigates the impact of further training on wages. The … estimation technique applied was primarily introduced by Leuven and Oosterbeek (2008). The idea is to compare wages of employees … who intended to participate in training but did not do so because of a random event with wages of employees who actually …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273137
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Who Suffers the Penalty? A Panel Data Analysis of Earnings Gaps in Vietnam
Nordman, Christophe J.; Nguyen, Huu Chi; Roubaud, François - 2011
In spite of its predominant economic weight in developing countries, little is known about informal sector income dynamics vis-à-vis the formal sector. Some works have been done in this field using household surveys, but they only consider some emerging Latin American countries and a few...
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Zum Einfluss von Alter und Erfahrung auf Produktivitäts- und Lohnprofile - Befunde einer Linked-Employer-Employee-Analyse
Schneider, Lutz - 2011
Der Beitrag untersucht den Einfluss des Alters und der Seniorität auf die Entwicklung und den Zusammenhang von Löhnen und Produktivität. Die ökonometrische Analyse von Betrieben des Verarbeitenden Gewerbes auf Grundlage des Linked-Employer-Employee-Datensatzes des IAB (LIAB) liefert Hinweise...
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