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Financing on-the-job training : shared investment or promotion based system? ; Evidence from Germany

Pannenberg, Markus - 1996 - Rev.

Though the shared investment hypothesis of human capital theory, i.e. that employers and employees share the costs of and the return on investment in firm-specific human capital, is widely accepted, we know little about the empirical evidence. The paper shows that in German data (1984-1991)...

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Doing well in reforming the labour market? : recent trends in job stability and wages in Germany

Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Jaenichen, Ursula; Rothe, Thomas - 2013

wages and rising wage dispersion over time. …

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Tenure, experience, human capital and wages : a tractable equilibrium search model of wage dynamics

Bagger, Jesper; Fontaine, François; Postel-Vinay, Fabien; … - 2014 - rev.

We develop and estimate an equilibrium job search model of worker careers, allowing for human capital accumulation, employer heterogeneity and individual-level shocks. Career wage growth is decomposed into the contributions of human capital and job search, within and between jobs. Human capital...

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Wage growth through job hopping in China

Ariga, Ken; Ōtake, Fumio; Sasaki, Masaru; Wu, Zheren - 2012

This paper uses a unique survey of the Chinese youth to construct a panel data in which we keep track of geographical and job mobilities. Our estimation results deliver the following major findings. (1) The sample individuals are highly mobile. Job quits and relocations are frequent and they are...

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Are individuals optimizing their wage path? : an analysis using linked employer-employee data

Schneck, Stefan (contributor) - 2008

This paper examines employer-to-employer mobility by describing the individual wage trajectories along the working career. The model, which is designed to introduce optimal between-firm mobility, is based on the search, the matching, and the human capital theory. It is emphasized that hopping...

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Promotion and Wages in Mid-Career : Gender, Unionism, and Sector

Addison, John T. - 2012

This paper considers the role of gender in the promotion process and the impact of promotion on wages and wage growth …, using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79). Its focus is upon mid-career promotion and wages … promoted in the private sector (and no less likely in the public sector); that wages are increasing in promotion, and the …

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Wage Growth Through Job Hopping in China

Ariga, Kenn - 2013

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Managers’ Mobility, Trade Performance, and Wages

Mion, Giordano - 2013

difficult to track down and quantify. By matching employer-employee data with trade data at the firm level we show that the …

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Doing Well in Reforming the Labour Market? Recent Trends in Job Stability and Wages in Germany

Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2013

wages and rising wage dispersion over time …

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Training, Mobility, and Wages : Specific Versus General Human Capital

Garloff, Alfred - 2008

This paper considers training, mobility decisions and wages together to test for the specificity of human capital … contained in continuing training courses. We empirically analyse the relationship between training, mobility and wages in two …, we find that wages are lower for job changers for the group of training participants, so wages decrease when trained …

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