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Long-term impact of youth minimum wages: evidence from two decades of individual longitudinal data
Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2009
This paper quantifies the long-run impact of exposure to youth minimum wages and sheds light on its mechanisms. It uses remarkable longitudinal data spanning for twenty years and explores legislative changes that define groups of teenagers exposed for different durations. After controlling for...
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Long-term impact of youth minimum wages : evidence from two decades of individual longitudinal data
Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2009
investment ; on-the-job-training ; career ; long-term ; linked employer-employee data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003858862
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Training and Search on the Job
Lentz, Rasmus - 2016
The paper studies human capital accumulation over workers' careers in an on the job search setting with heterogenous firms. In renegotiation proof employment con- tracts, more productive firms provide more training. Both general and specific training induce higher wages within jobs, and with...
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Training and search on the job
Lentz, Rasmus; Roys, Nicolas - 2016
The paper studies human capital accumulation over workers' careers in an on the job search setting with heterogenous firms. In renegotiation proof employment con- tracts, more productive firms provide more training. Both general and specific training induce higher wages within jobs, and with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011585846
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Labor Market Institutions and the Employment-Productivity Trade-Off : A Wage Posting Approach
Chéron, Arnaud; Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François - 2021
This paper analyzes the implications of labor market institutions and policies on the employment-labor productivity trade-off. We consider an equilibrium search model with wage posting and specific human capital investment where unemployment and the distribution of both wages and productivity...
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Minimum wage effects on human capital accumulation: evidence from Canadian data
Alessandrini, Diana; Milla, Joniada - 2021
This paper investigates the impact of the minimum wage on individuals' schooling decisions and the type of human capital acquired by students. Using Canadian longitudinal data, we explore 136 minimum wage amendments across provincial jurisdictions, and find three novel results. First, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012486377
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No Revenge for Nerds? Evaluating the Careers of Ivy League Athletes
Amornsiripanitch, Natee; Gompers, Paul A.; Hu, George; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
-graduate education and career choices as well as career outcomes. In terms of industry choice, athletes are far more likely to go into … advanced STEM degree. In terms of career outcomes, we find that Ivy League athletes outperform their non-athlete counterparts … teams that have lower academic admissions thresholds have higher career outcomes than non-athletes. Collectively, our …
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Firm training and wage rigidity
Lechthaler, Wolfgang (contributor) - 2008
Although wage rigidity is among the most prominent subjects in modern economics, its effects on wage compression and firm training have thus far not been considered. This paper is trying to bridge this gap by using a simple two period model which can still by analyzed analytically. I am able to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003757576
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An explanation of international differences in education and workplace training
Brunello, Giorgio; Medio, Alfredo - 2000
We develop a simple search equilibrium model of workplace training and education based on two features. First, investment in education improves job-related learning skills and reduces training costs burdened by firms. Second, firms with vacant skilled job slots can choose between recruitment...
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Dual track or academic route for auditors
Jonker, Nicole; Ophem, Hans van; Hartog, Joop - 2002
In the Netherlands auditors can be trained in a part-time educational track in which students combine working and studying or in a full-time educational track. The former training is relatively firm-specific whereas the latter training is relatively general. Applying human capital theory, we...
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