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Educational (mis)match and skill utilization in Germany : assessing the role of worker and job characteristics

Rohrbach-Schmidt, Daniela; Tiemann, Michael - In: Journal for labour market research 49 (2016) 2, pp. 99-119

This paper provides precise figures on the incidence and wage penalties of mismatching in Germany. We use the BIBB … characteristics. We also examine wage penalties for mismatching in Germany, considering a large number of controls for workers and, in … results indicate that large shares of over- or under-educated workers in Germany have skills that correspond to the skill …

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Educational (mis)match and skill utilization in Germany : assessing the role of worker and job characteristics

Rohrbach-Schmidt, Daniela; Tiemann, Michael - In: Journal for labour market research 49 (2016) 2, pp. 99-119

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011638345

The German part-time wage gap : bad news for men ; conference paper

Wolf, Elke - 2013

Despite the increasing occurrence of part-time employment in Germany, the effects on wage rates are rarely studied. I … unobserved individual characteristics yields a wage cut of about 10 percent in West and East Germany. Furthermore, the type of … that the part-time wage gap shrinks, the empirical evidence reveals that wage differentials in West-Germany increased over …

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International trade, technical change and wage inequality in the UK economy

Engelmann, Sabine - 2012

This paper examines the joint impact of international trade and technical change on U.K. wages across different skill groups. International trade is measured as changes in product prices and technical change as total factor productivity (TFP) growth. We take account of a multi-sector and...

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Successive technical change and the demand for skill : conference paper

Stijepic, Damir - 2013 - Preliminary and incomplete, February 2013

Skill-Biased Technical Change is one of the most prominent explanations for the rise in wage inequality in the United States over the last decades. However, the explanation is challenged for several reasons. In this paper, I propose an alternative type of technical change, where new technologies...

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Technological Change, Skill Demand, and Wage Inequality in Indonesia

Lee, Jong-Wha - 2013

This paper examines the empirical implications of technological changes for skill demand and wage inequality in Indonesia. According to the National Labor Force Survey of Indonesia, the share of educated workers and wage skill premium increased significantly over 2003-2009 for overall industry...

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The supply of foreign talent : how skill-biased technology drives the location choice and skills of new immigrants

Beerli, Andreas; Indergand, Ronald; Kunz, Johannes - 2021

An important goal of immigration policy is to facilitate the entry of foreignborn workers whose skills are in short supply in national labor markets. In recent decades, information and communication technology [ICT] has fueled the demand for highly educated workers at the expense of lower...

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Is ICT still polarising labour demand after the crisis?

Pichler, David; Stehrer, Robert - 2021

The impact of ICT capital accumulation and digitisation on labour demand and wage structures has changed in recent years, according to some of the literature on the subject. We analyse the impact of ICT capital accumulation based on recent data differentiating between the period before and after...

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Impact of first-birth career interruption on earnings : evidence from administrative data

Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Pitts, M. Melinda; Walker, Mary Beth - 2014

This paper uses unique administrative data to expand the understanding of the role women's intermittency decisions play in the determination of their wages. We demonstrate that treating intermittency as exogenous significantly overstates its impact. The intermittency penalty also increases in...

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Wage Risk, Employment Risk and the Rise in Wage Inequality

Mecikovsky, Ariel - 2017

We estimate the changes in US male labor market risk over the last three decades in a model of endogenous labor supply and job mobility. Across education groups permanent shocks to productivity have become more dispersed. Moreover, heterogeneity in pay across offered jobs has increased for...

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