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Starting wages respond to employer's risk

Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop; Ophem, Hans van - 2009

wages reflect this, with lower pay for greater uncertainty. We use the dispersion of exam grades within a field of education … as an indicator of the unobserved heterogeneity that employers face. We find solid evidence that starting wages are lower …

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Returns for entrepreneurs versus employees : the effect of education and personal control on the relative performance of entrepreneurs vis-a-vis wage employees

Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - 2009

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples’ occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that...

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The effect of immigration on native earnings

Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - 2000

wages of less skilled natives and a small positive effecton the wages of high skilledworkers as new immigrants are less …

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Low wage returns to schooling in a developing country : evidence from a major policy reform in Turkey

Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2015

In this paper, we estimate the returns on schooling for young men and women in Turkey using the exogenous and substantial variation in schooling across birth-cohorts brought about by the 1997 reform of compulsory schooling. We estimate that among 18- to 26-year-olds, the return from an extra...

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Cycles versus trends : the effects of economic growth on earnings in Bolivia

Muriel Hernández, Beatriz; Vera Cossio, Horacio - 2015

This paper analyzes the effects of economic growth on labor earnings in Bolivia during 1999-2012. More precisely, we develop a labor market model to capture both cycle and trend effects of prices, and production on earnings, which is estimated econometrically using pseudo-panel data methods. The...

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Employment and wage insurance within firms : worldwide evidence

Ellul, Andrew; Pagano, Marco; Schivardi, Fabiano - 2015

We investigate the determinants of firms' implicit insurance to employees, using a difference-indifference approach: we rely on differences between family and non-family firms to identify the supply of insurance, and exploit variation in unemployment insurance across and within countries to...

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Employer provided training in Austria : productivity, wages and wage inequality

Böheim, René; Schneeweis, Nicole; Wakolbinger, Florian - 2009

, wages, and the inequality of wages within firms. While the average amount spent on employer-provided training is low in … IT-courses. We find a significant relationship between training and wages, the coefficient is about 0.05. We find no … significant effect of training on the inequality of wages within firms. …

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Whose preferences are revealed in hours of work?

Pencavel, John H. - 2015

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Immigration, endogenous technology adoption and wages

Pandey, Manish; Ray Chaudhuri, Amrita - 2015

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Why demotion of older workers is a no-go area for managers

Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Henkens, Kène - 2015

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