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The Self-Selection of Migrant Workers Revisited
Yashiv, Eran - 2021
Work of low-skilled migrant workers from developing countries in developed economies is a growing phenomenon and a key political and economic issue. An extensive literature has found (for the most part) that these workers come from the lower part of the skill distribution. This paper revisits...
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An investigation into the stability of the big-five in Germany
Schäfer, Konrad C. - 2017
This paper investigates the stability of the Big-Five personality traits based on the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) from 2005, 2009, and 2013. The results indicate that the population means only show little variance over the eight year time frame. There is no link between age and...
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Offshoring and Labor Markets
Hummels, David L. - 2016
In this paper we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage, employment and displacement. We start with an overview of the measurement of offshoring, organizing our discussion around the three key elements of offshoring: that it involves intermediate inputs for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997459
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The changing graduate labour market : analysis using a new indicator of graduate jobs
Green, Francis; Henseke, Golo - In: IZA journal of labor policy 5 (2016) 14, pp. 1-25
This paper examines differentiation in the recent evolving graduate labour market in Britain. Using a novel statistically derived indicator of graduate jobs, based on job skill requirements in three-digit occupations obtained from the British Skills and Employment Survey series, we analyse...
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Strength from within : internal mobility and the retention of high performers
Benson, Alan; Rissing, Ben A. - In: Organization science : a journal of the Institute for … 31 (2020) 6, pp. 1475-1496
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Gender and racial discrimination in pay and promotion for NHS nurses
Pudney, Stephen; Shields, Michael A. - 1999
internal labour market for qualified nurses. This paper examines this issue with regard to the promotion process using 1994 … and career interruptions. We find evidence of significant differences in speed of promotion between gender and ethnic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262305
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Gender and racial discrimination in pay and promotion for NHS nurses
Pudney, Stephen E.; Shields, Michael - 1999
internal labour market for qualified nurses. This paper examines this issue with regard to the promotion process using 1994 … and career interruptions. We find evidence of significant differences in speed of promotion between gender and ethnic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317479
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Gender and Racial Discrimination in Pay and Promotion for NHS Nurses
Pudney, Stephen; Shields, Michael A. - 2021
internal labour market for qualified nurses. This paper examines this issue with regard to the promotion process using 1994 … and career interruptions. We find evidence of significant differences in speed of promotion between gender and ethnic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321345
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The firm as the locus of social comparisons: Internal labor markets versus up-or-out
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Friebel, Guido; Lammers, Frauke - 2012
We suggest a parsimonious dynamic agency model in which workers have status concerns. A firm is a promotion hierarchy … in which a worker's status depends on past performance. We investigate the optimality of two types of promotion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282601
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The firm as the locus of social comparisons : internal labor markets versus up-or-out
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Friebel, Guido; Lammers, Frauke - 2012
We suggest a parsimonious dynamic agency model in which workers have status concerns. A firm is a promotion hierarchy … in which a worker's status depends on past performance. We investigate the optimality of two types of promotion … academia, comparing US with French economics departments. -- status ; promotion hierarchies ; incentives ; sorting …
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