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Employment relations and wages : what can we learn from subjective assessments?

Lachowska, Marta - 2013

This paper studies the link between hourly wages and workers' subjective assessments of how easy it would be to find another job as good as the present one, and how easy it would be for an employer to replace an employee. First, using high-quality data, I study the correlates of these two...

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Training Contracts, Employee Turnover, and the Returns from Firm-Sponsored General Training

Hoffman, Mitchell - 2017

Firms may be reluctant to provide general training if workers can quit and use their gained skills elsewhere. "Training contracts" that impose a penalty for premature quitting can help alleviate this inefficiency. Using plausibly exogenous contractual variation from a leading trucking firm, we...

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Learning, Wage Dynamics, and Firm-Specific Human Capital

Felli, Leonardo; Harris, Christopher - 1998

. In this model, human capital is interpreted as information. We show that equilibrium exists and is efficient and that it …

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Does affirmative action lead to mismatch? : a new test and evidence

Arcidiacono, Peter; Aucejo, Esteban; Fang, Hanming; … - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 2 (2011) 3, pp. 303-333

universities possess private information. Ex ante mismatch occurs when revelation of this information would have changed the … information that is a statistically significant predictor of students’ post-enrollment academic performance. Further, this private … information is shown to affect the subjective measures of students’ satisfaction as well as their persistence in more difficult …

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Efficiency in a search and matching model with endogenous participation

Albrecht, James; Navarro, Lucas; Vroman, Susan - 2009

We show that in a search/matching model with endogenous participation in which workers are heterogeneous with respect …

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Should I Stay or Should I Go? Educational Choices and Earnings: An Empirical Study for Portugal

Modesto, Leonor - 2000

In this paper we analyse educational choices and earnings of individuals at two different levels in the Portuguese educational system. At each potential exit level we consider two decisions: the decision to continue studying and the employment decision, whereas normally only the first decision...

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Firm-worker matching in industrial clusters

Figueiredo, Octávio; Guimarães, Paulo; Woodward, … - 2011

that industrial agglomeration improves the quality of the firm-worker matching process. Our method makes use of recent … multiple sources of observed and unobserved heterogeneity we find little evidence that the quality of matching increases with …. -- agglomeration ; matching ; fixed-effects …