Summary This paper deals with the medium-term effects of job mobility on the average wage growth of job-movers in eastern Germany. The analysis is based on all employees subject to social insurance contributions working in eastern Germany in 2004. Using a statistical matching procedure combined...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of trade and investment liberalization on the wage skill premium between skilled and unskilled workers in Vietnam. Design/methodology/approach – An analysis is undertaken by means of descriptive statistics and econometric...

Purpose – The paper aims to examine factors that influence individuals' preferences between wages indexed on job performance or efficiency over equity-based wages. Design/methodology/approach – Generalized linear latent and mixed models (GLLAMM) are estimated on the 2005 wave of the World...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide evidence concerning wage differentials and the existence of gender pay discrimination in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom. Design/methodology/approach – The authors used the stochastic frontier approach as an alternative...

Purpose – The authors aim to investigate public‐private pay determination using French, British and Italian micro data from the 2001 ECHP (European Community Household Panel) and estimate public/private wage differentials by country. By focussing on different countries, they exploit...

Purpose An interest in social transmission as a source of welfare and income inequality in a society has re-emerged recently with new vigour in leading economic research (see ). This paper presents a mixed Bourdieu-Mincer (B-M) type micro-economic model which provides a testable mechanism for...

Abstract In diesem Beitrag untersuchen wir Unterschiede zwischen der Arbeitszufriedenheit von Migrant/innen und Nicht-Migrant/innen. Diese werden theoretisch durch Unterschiede bei Arbeitsplatzmerkmalen und humankapitaltheoretische Ansätze abgeleitet und anhand von Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen...

Abstract While the large disparities in educational attainment by socioeconomic status in the United States point towards the importance of credit constraints, there is no consensus in the economic literature regarding their pervasiveness. To evaluate how subjective information can enhance our...

Abstract We consider an economy where production may use labor of two different skill levels. Workers are heterogeneous and, by investing in education, self-select into one of the two skills. Ex-ante, when firms choose their investments in physical capital, they do not know the level of human...

Abstract The growth literature has not yet fully established how data on educational attainment should be introduced in theories involving human capital. This paper examines alternative specifications of human capital within the Mincerian class that once incorporated in standard growth models...