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Job promotion in mid-career: gender, recession and ‘crowding’

Addison, John; Ozturk, Orgul; Wang, Si - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 indicate that between 1996 and 2010 females on average lost some of the promotion momentum they had achieved at the beginning of mid-career, although they outperformed males in this regard. For both genders economic downturn has...

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"Employment in Poland 2011 - Poverty and jobs"

Magda, Iga; Bukowski, Maciej; Buchholz, Sonia; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This edition is devoted to the issue of poverty. Growth of prosperity is not distributed evenly among the Polish citizens, and some of them still cannot satisfy even basic needs. The improvement of an overall economic situation reduces risk of poverty in general. However, in case the risk...

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When Are Appearances Deceiving? The Nature of the Beauty Premium

Deryugina, Tatyana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We design a laboratory experiment to illuminate the channels through which relatively more attractive individuals receive higher wages. Specifically, we are able to distinguish taste-based discrimination from rational statistical discrimination and biased beliefs. Using three realistic worker...

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Private-public sector employment choice and wage differential in Palestine:a gender perspective

Daoud, Yousef; Shanti, Ruba - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

, 2001, 2007, and 2010. Although returns to education by gender has been analyzed before, this paper is the first to analyze … view point of sector choice, returns to education, and decomposition of sector and gender wage differentials. Low returns … to education tend to diminish the importance of the endowment effect in explaining the sector and gender wage gaps. The …

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The impact of immigration on the labour market: Evidence from 20 years of cross-border migration to Argentina

Battiston, Diego - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper studies the effects of immigration on the wages of Argentinean native workers over the period 1993-2012. I use a novel micro-dataset which combines household surveys from Argentina and six other Latin American countries. Immigration from these six countries accounts for 95% of the...

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Managers' Mobility, Trade Status, and Wages

Mion, Giordano; Opromolla, Luca David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper investigates whether the arrival of managers with export experience, i.e. experience acquired through participation in the export activity of previous employers, is related to firms' international trade status and to what extent this relationship is of a causal nature. We construct a...

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Managers' Mobility, Trade Status and Wages

Mion, Giordano; Opromolla, Luca David - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

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Does High Involvement Management Lead to Higher Pay?

Bryson, Alex; Böckerman, Petri; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

Using nationally representative survey data for Finnish employees linked to register data on their wages and work histories we find wage effects of high involvement management (HIM) practices are generally positive and significant. However, employees with better wage and work histories are more...

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Gregariousness, Interactive Jobs and Wages

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Schulz, Nico Johannes - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011

Gregariousness is an important aspect of human life with implications for labour market outcomes. The paper examines, to the best of our knowledge for the first time for Germany, gregariousness and social interaction at the workplace and associated wage differentials. Our empirical findings with...

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Convergence or divergence? Immigrant wage assimilation patterns in Germany

Zibrowius, Michael - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Using a rich German panel data set, I estimate wage assimilation patterns for immigrants in Germany. This study contributes to the literature by performing separate estimations by skill groups and controlling for a wide range of socio-economic background variables. It aims to answer the question...

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