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Physical activity of adults : a survey of correlates, determinants, and effects

Cabane, Charlotte; Lechner, Michael - 2014 - This version: October 2014

We survey the literature on the link of labour market related outcomes to individ-ual physical activity and sports participation. The first part of the survey is devoted to the individual participation decision and is based on papers from various disciplines. The sec-ond part summarises parts of...

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Occupational licensing and job mobility in the United States

Hermansen, Mikkel Nørlem - 2019

earnings of job stayers and job-to-job movers. In contrast to previous studies, it attempts to provide macro-level estimates by … with more extensive and stricter licensing regulation. The results from the analysis of earnings are generally mixed and … mostly insignificant. However, there is some evidence of lower earnings gains from job-to-job moves to states with more …

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Comparing wage levels and developments in Europe : mind the data source

Schröder, Joris; Schwarzhappel, Monika - 2020

data, Labour Cost Survey, Structure of Earnings Survey and administrative data) in terms of coverage, the various … definitions applied (labour cost, compensation, wages and salaries, gross earnings) and measurement issues (employees, full …

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Profits and losses from changes in fair value, executive cash compensation and managerial power : evidence from A-share listed companies in China

Shao, Ruiqing; Chen, Chunhua; Mao, Xiangzu - In: China journal of accounting research : CJAR 5 (2012) 4, pp. 269-292

According to optimal contracting theory, compensation contracts are effective in solving the agency problem between stockholders and managers. Executive compensation is naturally related to firm performance. However, contracts are not always perfect. Managers may exert influence on the...

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Family background variables as instruments for education in income regressions : a Bayesian analysis

Hoogerheide, Lennart; Block, Jörn; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Current version: July 2010

The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In this paper, we use data of the 2004 German Socio-Economic Panel and Bayesian analysis in order to analyze to what degree violations of the strong validity assumption affect the...

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Profit Sharing and Peer Reporting

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2016

Despite the "1/N problem" associated with profit sharing, the empirical literature finds that sharing profits with workers has a positive impact on work team and firm performance. We examine one possible resolution to this puzzle by observing that, although the incentive to work harder under...

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Labour, Profit and Housing Rent Shares in Italian GDP : Long-Run Trends and Recent Patterns

Torrini, Roberto - 2016

The share of labour increased in the first half of the 1970s, declined slowly to its 1960s level in 2001, and since then has been rising. Between 1975 and 2001, the decline in the labour share was due in part to the recovery in profits, and in part to a steady increase in housing rents on GDP,...

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The effects of education-job (mis)match on the earnings of graduates in the Czech Republic

Sedláček, Jan; Zelenka, Martin - In: Národohospodářský obzor : časopis věnovaný … 21 (2021) 2, pp. 105-150

This paper deals with the effects of education-job (mis)match on the earnings of higher education graduates in the … to contribute to knowledge about the effects of education-job (mis)match on earnings in two ways. First, it concentrates … usually has significant negative effects on earnings. Horizontal match effects are contradictory. The education-job (mis …

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Ethnic regional networks and immigrants' earnings: a spatial autoregressive network approach

Wang, Xingang; Maani, Sholeh A. - 2021

The conventional model of immigrant earnings does not account for the correlation of outcomes across immigrant ethnic … variable. Results confirm strong positive associations of earnings with both ethnic concentration and networks of resources …. The analytically enhanced approach provides opportunities for new research on the determinants of immigrant earnings. …

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Unternehmensgründungen von Ausländern in Deutschland : Einkommenseffekte und Implikationen für die Gründungslehre

Block, Jörn; Sandner, Philipp; Wagner, Marcus; … - 2009

employment position. Second, foreigners seem to gain more from self-employment relative to Germans. The earnings increase from …

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