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Eckstein, Zvi; den Berg, Gerard J. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

questions in a structural framework, using data on individual labor market transitions and durations, wages, and individual …

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Firm-Sponsored General Training in Frictional Labour Markets: An Empirical Analysis for Switzerland

Gerfin, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

According to the classical human capital theory general training is entirely financed by workers. This prediction is at odds with the empirical evidence. This observation inspired new theoretical models of training in frictional labour market. These frictions create incentives for firms to...

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Do Attitudes Towards Immigrants Matter?

Waisman, Gisela; Larsen, Birthe - Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies (SULCIS), … - 2008

We exploit the regional variation in negative attitudes towards immigrants to Sweden in order to analyse what are the consequences of such attitudes on immigrants' welfare. A well educated immigrant from a non developed country who lives in a municipality with strong negative attitudes earns...

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Labour Market Entry Conditions, Wages and Job Mobility

Bachmann, Ronald; Bauer, Thomas K.; David, Peggy - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2010

documented, little is known about their interaction with employees’ mobility behaviour. This paper contributes to this research … area by analyzing the interaction between job mobility and entry wage differentials using German administrative data. The … occupation. Moreover, job mobility tends to reduce the effects of labour market entry conditions, implying that job mobility …

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

Garloff, Alfred; Kuckulenz, Anja - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

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 … ways. First, we examine the correlation between training and mobility. In a second step, we consider wage effects of …

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Using firm data to assess the performance of equilibrium search models of the labor market

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Vuuren, Aico van - Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en … - 2000

able to explain the observed distributions of wages, productivities and firm sizes across firms, as well as the extent to …

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Labor Market Entry Conditions, Wages and Job Mobility

Bachmann, Ronald; Bauer, Thomas; David, Peggy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

documented, little is known about their interaction with employees' mobility behaviour. This paper contributes to this research … area by analyzing the interaction between job mobility and entry wage differentials using German administrative data. The … occupation. Moreover, job mobility tends to reduce the effects of labour market entry conditions, implying that job mobility …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568304