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Career mobility theory suggests that given a certain occupation, schooling improves upward mobility in terms of … promoted and that this career mobility advantage is more pronounced in the early stages of their working lives. By contrast …. Altogether, these findings strongly support the career mobility theory. Furthermore, by differentiating between internal and …
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Inspired by the literature on the importance of career networks for the quality of labor market matches we investigate …
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The paper studies human capital accumulation over workers' careers in an on the job search setting with heterogenous firms. In renegotiation proof employment con- tracts, more productive firms provide more training. Both general and specific training induce higher wages within jobs, and with...
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, not much is known about gender wage gaps in early career worldwide, a period which is perceived to be an important … market experiences of the youngest age segment in the labor force (age 15–25 years).The results of the analysis suggest that …
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field choices students make at age 16, when they may have limited information about their skills and the labor market, have …
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's career, followed by a larger wage differential; this is partly due to a lower level of human capital investment by women and …
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This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the (imperfect) international transferability of human capital. Data are drawn from the 2009 Italian Labour Force Survey (LFS). We show that returns to human capital are considerably lower...
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negative effects on workers' career. This may be the case when firms use promotions to stimulate skill acquisition and human … capital accumulation or when they base their work incentive schemes on performance measures that are affected by the number of … find that the part-time wage penalty does not arise at the onset of a career as young workers join the labor market but …
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This paper assesses the potential of "workplace training" with reference to German Apprenticeship. When occupational matching is important, we derive conditions under which firms provide "optimal" training packages. Since the German system broadly meets these conditions, we evaluate the...
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I use the European Community Household Panel to ask whether unemployment affects the relationship between education and subsequent earnings growth. show that individuals with more education have more to lose in terms of subsequent earnings growth from the experience of unemployment. This result...
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