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We examine the dynamic role of education and experience as determinants of wages. It is hypothesized that an employee … market experience and increase with initially unobserved ability, since the employer gradually obtains better information on …
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experience and technology adoption and the effect of technological change on the returns to experience. Estimates indicate that … technological change is an important explanation for changes in experience premia. We find a complementarity between existing human …
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We examine the dynamic role of education and experience as determinants of wages. It is hypothesized that an employee … market experience and increase with initially unobserved ability, since the employer gradually obtains better information on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703658
We address the bias from using potential vs. actual experience in earnings models. Statistical tests reject the …. We correct for this by modeling actual experience as a stochastic regressor and predicting experience using the NLSY79 … and the PSID. Predicted experience measures are applied to the IPUMS. Our results suggest that potential experience biases …
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This paper models the bias from using potential vs actual experience in log wage models. The nature of the problem is … potential and actual work experience and create a predicted measure of work experience. We use the 1979 National Longitudinal …. Our results suggest that potential experience biases the effects of schooling and the rates of return to labor market …
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This paper measures how much of the gender wage gap over the life cycle is due to the fact that working hours are lower for women than for men. We build a quantitative theory of fertility, labor supply, and human capital accumulation decisions to measure gender differences in human capital...
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workers with different levels of experience reflect differences in productivity? We address this set of questions on the basis … reflected in their wages. Experienced workers are on average found to be more productive. For workers with 8 to 15 years of … experience, the productivity premium exceeds the wage premium, while the opposite is the case for workers with more than 15 years …
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returns to experience.  If each task in a job has a concave learning curve, then increasing the number of tasks may increase … the returns to experience.  Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, I provide evidence for the fact that successive … cohorts have greater returns to experience.  Next, I construct proxies for multi-tasking using Paul Osterman's 1992 survey of …
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This paper summarizes the findings of studies which investigate the determinants of wages in Germany, using data of the … general labor market experience. The studies focus on the heterogeneity in wage determinants in the private and the public … results, we find clear differences in returns to experience between East and West and by employer size. …
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We examine the dynamic role of education and experience as determinants of wages. It is hypothesized that an employee … market experience and increase with initially unobserved ability, since the employer gradually obtains better information on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666574