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In the case of France, we analyse the changes in the wage value of each education level and the impact of parents’ education and income upon the education attainment of children, sons and daughters. We find a critical decline in the skill premium of the Baccalauréat (‘bac’) in relation to...
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variation in regional labor market characteristics. Pure firm changes and occupation-and-job changes after graduation from …. For the majority of cases a change of occupation involves a career progression. In contrast, for job switches the wage …
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variation in regional labor market characteristics. Pure firm changes and occupation-and-job changes after graduation from …. For the majority of cases a change of occupation involves a career progression. In contrast, for job switches the wage …
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This paper analyzes the allocation of workers to jobs and the wage distribution in Germany. Our main contribution is to reconcile prominent empirical models of wage dispersion (Abowd et al., 1999; Card et al., 2013) with theoretical sorting models (Shimer and Smith, 2000; Eeckhout and Kircher, 2011;...
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I analyze the impact of a low-wage trade shock on manufacturing workers in a high-wage country, Denmark, and how they adjust to the shock over a decade across all potential adjustment margins, in the labor market and outside. My research illustrates the importance of industry-specific human...
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the same job. The career mobility model suggests that this is indeed the case, with overeducated workers being more prone … to take up on-the-job training, to climb up the career ladder, or to eventually leave to professions more suitable to … overeducated workers have a significantly higher probability to take up on-the-job training than adequately educated workers and …
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Increasing wage inequality is associated with changes in the degree of labor market sorting, i.e. the allocation of workers to firms. To measure sorting, we propose a new method which disentangles the respective contributions of worker and firm heterogeneity to wage inequality. Inspired by...
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generally led to a decrease in middle-income jobs with routine skills, known as job polarization. This study finds that the … virtually irrelevant job characteristic in occupations, namely, the ability to work from home, and not the manual, routine, or … type of jobs gained. Further evidence of a persistent change in the demand for (digital) skills is found in results on job …
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We examine the development of worker-firm matching over the career due to job mobility. Using administrative employer …, increases with each job move. For high-quality workers, this can be explained by job ladder models as these workers move to … to climb the job ladder at first. For this group, the increase in assortative matching increases after the third job …
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to students extending their horizon of job search. A bivariate probit analysis also confirms that there is a positive …
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