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Mobility across Firms and Occupations among Graduates from Apprenticeship

Fitzenberger, Bernd - Berlin Doctoral Program in Economics and Management Science

This paper estimates the wage effects of mobility across firms and occupations for male workers after apprenticehip in Germany. We employ an instrumental variables approach exploiting variation in regional labor market characteristics. Our estimates imply that pure firm changes and occupation...

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Estimating the returns to schooling using cohort-level maternal education as an instrument

Winters, John V. - In: Economics Letters 126 (2015) C, pp. 25-27

This paper examines effects of schooling on wages instrumenting for individual schooling using cohort-level maternal … schooling from previous censuses. Results suggest that an additional year of schooling increases hourly wages by 10 percent for …

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The height premium in Indonesia

Sohn, Kitae - In: Economics & Human Biology 16 (2015) C, pp. 1-15

Analyzing the Indonesian Family Life Survey for the year 2007, this paper estimates that a 10cm increase in physical stature is associated with an increase in earnings of 7.5% for men and 13.0% for women, even after controlling for an extensive set of productivity variables. When the height...

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Spatial spillovers of regional wages: Evidence from Chinese provinces

Huang, Qiong; Chand, Satish - In: China Economic Review 32 (2015) C, pp. 97-109

This study investigates the effects of spatial interactions on local wages based on a panel data from 31 Chinese … dependencies in provincial wages. Then, we estimate the provincial wage equation using a spatial panel model that controls for … spatial wage spillover plays an important role in the determination of local wages. Furthermore, we find that human capital …

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Training and wages of older workers in Europe

Belloni, Michele; Villosio, Claudia - Dipartimento di Economia, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2014

European older workers and their wages, relying on the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. Undertaking training … activities is associated with 6.3% higher wages. This premium is sizeable and is similar to that of attaining an upper or post …

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Testing the Validity of Item Non-Response as a Proxy for Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills

Kassenboehmer, Sonja C.; Schurer, Stefanie; Leung, Felix - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

paradata. Fraction answered captures a third of the effect of cognitive ability on wages and education. We provide a simple …

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Relative pay and job satisfaction: some new evidence

Taylor, J; Bradley, S; Nguyen, A N - Department of Economics, Management School - 2003

This paper investigates the determinants of job satisfaction using data from the National Educational Longitudinal Study. The determinants of interest include actual pay, relative pay, hours of work, job autonomy and several personal characteristics. We also investigate the determinants of...

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Selective schooling systems increase inequality

Burgess, Simon; Dickson, Matt - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2014

We investigate the impact on earnings inequality of a selective education system in which school assignment is based on initial test scores. We use a large, representative household panel survey to compare adult earnings inequality of those growing up under a selective education system with...

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АЛЕКСЕЕВИЧ, АНТРОПОВ ВЛАДИМИР; … - In: Вестник Южно-Уральского … (2010) 3, pp. 16-24

Статья посвящена проблемам разработки новых, рыночных методов материального стимулирования труда в современных условиях хозяйствования. Авторами разработаны...

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СОВРЕМЕННЫЕ ОТРАСЛЕВЫЕ ПРОБЛЕМЫ ТАРИФООБРАЗОВАНИЯ УСЛУГ ЖИЛИЩНОКОММУНАЛЬНОГО ХОЗЯЙСТВА РОССИИ

ВЛАДИМИРОВНА, ДЕРЯБИНА ЕЛЕНА - In: Вестник Южно-Уральского … (2011) 3, pp. 23-26

Статья посвящена современным отраслевым проблемам тарифообразования в условиях развития рыночных отношений в сфере жилищно-коммунального хозяйства России....

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