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Ethnic Disparities in the Graduate Labour Market

Zorlu, Aslan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper examines ethnic wage differentials for the entire population of students enrolled in 1996 using unique administrative panel data for the period 1996 to 2005 from the Dutch tertiary education system. The study decomposes wage differentials into two components: a component which can be...

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Sizing It Up: Labor Migration Lessons of the EU Enlargement to 27

Constant, Amelie F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

While economists were pointing out the advantages of the EU enlargement, politicians and policymakers were raising grave concerns about the significant political and economic differences between the newcomer states (EU12) and the "old Europe" of EU15. The major point of apprehension was related...

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Firm-Sponsored Classroom Training: Is It Worth It for Older Workers?

Dostie, Benoit; Léger, Pierre Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We use longitudinal linked employer-employee data and find that the probability of participating in firm-sponsored classroom training diminishes rapidly for workers aged 45 years and older. Although the standard human capital investment model predicts such a decline, we also consider the...

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Knowledge Spillovers and TFP Growth Rates

Quella, Nuria - Economics Department, State University of New … - 2009

across sectors, and the wedge between market and optimal wages by sector. I find that, for the whole period, optimal … these sectors is 12% and 16% higher than the market’s, and optimal wages in manufacturing are 54% above market wages. …

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Returns for Entrepreneurs vs. Employees: The Effect of Education and Personal Control on the Relative Performance of Entrepreneurs vs. Wage Employees

van Praag, Mirjam; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen; van der … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 education...

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Wage Adjustment, Competitiveness and Unemployment – East Germany after Unification

Smolny, Werner - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 229 (2009) 2-3, pp. 130-145

. Wages are still considerably lower, the unemployment rate is about twice of the West German level, and the competitiveness … situation. The results reveal large equilibrium gaps for wages and unemployment which are based on the wage-setting process, the …

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Wages, labour mobility and international trade

Kar, Saibal; Marjit, Sugata - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

This chapter is an extensive review of the existing literature on international migration of labour and its close interactions with international trade in goods and services. In addition, we provide a brief model to show that emigration of labour from a developing country has strong implications...

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Does physical capacity explain the height premium?

Böckerman, Petri; Johansson, Edvard; Kiiskinen, Urpo; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

strenuousness of work. We also find that muscle mass is not related to wages. Furthermore, we observe that the shortest men do …

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Wages and Immigrant Occupational Composition in Sweden

Hansen, Jorgen; Wahlberg, Roger; Faisal, Sharif - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010

This paper examines the relationship between immigrant occupational composition and wages in Sweden. Effects of changes … estimated. Our results suggest that increases in immigrant density have only small effects on wages and that the negative … relationship between wages and the proportion of immigrant workers in an occupation, observed in data, is almost entirely accounted …

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La distribución funcional de la renta en España entre 1914 y 1959: una propuesta de análisis

Rodríguez, Margarita Vilar - In: Investigaciones de Historia Económica (IHE) Journal of … 6 (2006), pp. 105-136

The analysis of the functional distribution of income in Spain from a historical perspective has created many obstacles to historiography due to the lack of statistical sources. The main objective of this research is to offer a new quantitative tool which lets empirically test many arguments...

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