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Automation and labor demand in European countries : a task-based approach to wage bill decomposition

Lábaj, Martin; Vitáloš, Matej - 2019

To understand the effects of automation and other types of technological changes on European labor demand, we use a framework and empirical decomposition of observed changes in the total wage bill in the economy developed by Acemoglu and Restrepo (2019). The decomposition is derived from a...

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Mincer earnings functions for the Netherlands 1962-2012

Hartog, Joop; Gerritsen, Sander - 2016

We extract estimation results on the Mincer earnings function from four earlier studies and add new results from a recent dataset. We analyse differences related to differences in earnings concepts, in sampling frame and differences among studies that cannot be explained. Jointly, the studies...

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Brain Types and Wages

Drydakis, Nick - 2015

We examine the association between brain types and wages using the UK Behavioural Study dataset for the period 2011 to … 2013 (four waves). By applying Empathising-Systemising Theory (E-S), the estimations suggest that, for men and women …

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Soft Skills and Their Wage Returns : Overview of Empirical Literature

Balcar, Jiří - 2014

Psychological traits, attitudes and soft skills represent factors whose effect on an individual's wages has begun to be …

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Earning to Give : Occupational Choice for Effective Altruists

Morduch, Jonathan - 2018

Effective altruists wish to do good while optimizing the social performance they deliver. We apply this principle to the labor market. We determine the optimal occupational choice of a socially motivated worker who has two mutually exclusive options: a job with a for-profit firm and a lower-paid...

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Workers, Firms and Life-Cycle Wage Dynamics

Bingley, Paul - 2018

Studies of individual wage dynamics typically ignore firm heterogeneity, whereas decompositions of earnings into worker and firm effects abstract from life-cycle considerations. We study firm effects in individual wage dynamics using administrative data on the population of Italian employers and...

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Job spells, employer spells, and wage returns to tenure

Devereux, Paul J.; Hart, Robert A.; Roberts, J. Elizabeth - 2013

We show that the distinction between job spells and employer spells matters for returns to tenure. Employer spells encompass between-job wage movements linked to promotions or demotions while job spells don't. Using a 1% sample of the British workforce over the period 1975-2010, we find that a...

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Concentration and other wage determinants

Martins, Ana Paula - 2018

functions regressions. Dependent variables are logarithms of the mean sector wages considered for each case. Some statistical …

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The wage effects of fixed-term contract employment revisited : an investigation based on social security records ; conference paper

Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Paul, Marie; … - 2014 - Preliminary!, This version: 01.02.2014

Using data from social security records on Spanish males, we investigate the wage effects of working under a fixed-term contract. In a first step, we provide fixed-effects estimates of the wage effect of working under a fixed-term contract for low-skilled, medium-skilled, and high-skilled men...

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Efficiency wages : variants and implications

Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2016

higher wages. All these phenomena are well established empirically. Efficiency wage theory provides an integrated explanation …Higher wages increase labor costs but improve the productivity of the labor force through several channels. If firms … take this into account and set their wages accordingly, the resulting wages may fail to adjust demand and supply but may …

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