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Maintaining (locus of) control? : assessing the impact of locus of control on education decisions and wages

Piatek, Rémi; Pinger, Pia - 2010 - This version: July 12, 2010

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Better safe than sorry? : the effects of income risk, unemployment risk and the interaction of these risks on wages

Nagl, Wolfgang - 2012

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Deconstructing theories of overeducation in Europe : a wage decomposition approach

McGuinness, Séamus; Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2016

This paper uses data from the Cedefop European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey, a new international dataset of adult workers in 28 EU countries, to decompose the wage penalty of overeducated workers. The ESJ survey allows for integration of a rich, previously unavailable, set of factors in the...

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The new economic case for migration restrictions : an assessment

Clemens, Michael A.; Pritchett, Lant - 2016

For decades, migration economics has stressed the effects of migration restrictions on income distribution in the host country. Recently the literature has taken a new direction by estimating the costs of migration restrictions to global economic efficiency. In contrast, a new strand of research...

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Offshoring and labor markets

Hummels, David; Munch, Jakob Roland; Chong, Xiang - 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...

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How forced displacements caused by a violent conflict affect wages in Colombia

Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2016

In this paper, we analyze how forced displacements caused by violent conflicts affect the wages of displaced workers in … country. Using data from the Quality of Life Survey (2011-2014), we analyze differences in wages between those who were forced … find that forced displacement decreases between 6% and the 22% the wages of males, and between 17% and 37% the wages of …

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Why should we care about productivity?

Pryce, Vicky - In: National Institute economic review (2015) 231, pp. 30-35

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A pint a day raises a man's pay; but smoking blows that gain away

Ours, Jan C. van - 2002

positive wage effect of about the same size. The wages of females are not affected by smoking and drinking. …

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Who pays for general training? : new evidence for British men and women

Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - 2002

forms of work-related training received by men and women over the period 1998-2000, and to estimate their impact on wages … estimate the impact of training - controlling for its financing method - on wages levels and wages growth. We find that … employer-financed training increases wages both in the current and future firms, with some evidence that the impact in future …

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Wages, productivity, and work intensity in the great depression

Darby, Julia; Hart, Robert A. - 2002

We show that U.S. manufacturing wages during the Great Depression were importantly determined by forces on firms …

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