This paper analyzes the allocation of workers to jobs and the wage distribution in Germany. Our main contribution is to … provides a valid approximation of observed wages and matching patterns for a large part of the data. For low-type workers …, however, wages are decreasing in the type of the firm a worker is matched with. This prediction of theoretical sorting models …

or the teacher work environment on teacher attrition. In this paper, we use non-teaching wages of former teachers to …

Community Survey to examine the effect of formal schooling on worker wages. Given the potential endogeneity of education … censuses. The instrumental variables results suggest that schooling has a significant positive effect on worker wages …. Specifically, an additional year or schooling is estimated to increase hourly wages by 10 percent for men and 12.6 percent for …

applied estimation technique was first introduced by Leuven and Oosterbeek (2008). The idea is to compare wages of employees …Using German linked employer-employee data, this paper investigates the impact of on-the-job training on wages. The … who intended to participate in training but did not do so because of a random event with wages of training participants …

comes from their own actions instead of being determined by luck or destiny, earn higher wages. However, this positive …. -- Locus of control ; wages ; latent factor model ; data set combination …

schooling - before the individual enters the labor market - does not significantly affect later wages after controlling for … control measures on wages, this indicates that it is important to distinguish between premarket skills and those that are …, thus indirectly affecting later wages. The paper conveys important policy implications. If some personality traits, such as …

applied estimation technique was first introduced by Leuven and Oosterbeek (2008). The idea is to compare wages of employees …Using German linked employer-employee data, this paper investigates the impact of on-the-job training on wages. The … who intended to participate in training but did not do so because of a random event with wages of training participants …

comes from their own actions instead of being determined by luck or destiny, earn higher wages. However, this positive …

schooling ­ before the individual enters the labor market ­ does not significantly affect later wages after controlling for … control measures on wages, this indicates that it is important to distinguish between premarket skills and those that are …, thus indirectly affecting later wages. The paper conveys important policy implications. If some personality traits, such as …