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robust evidence that job instability lowers wages and the likelihood of getting and remaining married. At the same time …, marriage raises wages and job stability. To project the sequential effects linking job stability, marital status, and earnings …
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international trade – connected to the increasing globalization of the Colombian economy – appear as the crucial drivers. These …
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skilled workers or just increasing the overall average wages. On the supply side, FDI can enrich the skilled labour force of … paper takes into account both these effects and tests for human capital formation effect of FDI in India for core … effects of FDI, but finds positive demand side effect of FDI of raising wage inequality and average wages. The results remain …
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This paper concerns the prediction of career success among migrants. We focus specifically on the role of occupation as a mediating variable between the predictor variables education and time since migration, and the dependent variable career success as denoted by occupational status, linked to...
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This paper addresses the impact of rising international trade exposure on individual earnings profiles in heterogeneous worker-establishment matches. We exploit rich panel data on job biographies of manufacturing workers in Germany, and apply a high-dimensional fixed effects approach to analyze...
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We study the impact of trade exposure in the job biographies, measured with daily accuracy, of 2.4 million workers in Germany. To profit from export opportunities, workers adjust through increased employer switching. Highly skilled workers benefit the most, consistent with an increase in skill...
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We exploit rich worker-establishment data to trace the impact of rising international trade exposure in the job biographies of roughly 2.4 million manufacturing workers in Germany (1990–2010). To profit from export opportunities, workers respond by increased employer switching within...
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composition and wages. We contribute to empirical research on these issues in three ways. First, we provide novel evidence that is … firm characteristics, including size and capital intensity, exporters still pay higher wages and employ more skilled …
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decompose wages into firm and worker components. We find that the rise of market access and competitiveness of the East has a … explain changes in the firm wage premium. The rising dispersion in worker-specific wages can be attributed to increasing skill …-specific wages. Overall, trade explains up to 19% of the recent increase in wage inequality and slightly exceeds the technology …
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Do exporters and foreign-controlled establishments pay their workers higher wages than non-exporters and domestic … foreign-controlled plants do pay higher wages than non-exporters and domestic-controlled plants. These results hold even after … the impact of foreign control on wages is found to be widespread across industries and regions, that of exporting is not …
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