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Boza, István; Ilyés, Virág - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 9 (2020) 1/8, pp. 1-31

We address the presence, magnitude, and composition of wage gains related to former co-workers and discuss the mechanisms that could explain their existence. Using Hungarian linked employer-employee administrative data and proxying actual co-workership with overlapping work histories, we show...

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Short-term earnings mobility in the Canadian and German context : the role of cognitive skills

Pullman, Ashley; Gauly, Britta; Lechner, Clemens - In: Journal for labour market research 55 (2021) 1, pp. 1-19

-year period, the present study examines positional change in Canada and Germany-two contexts typified as examples of liberal and … mobility in Germany once we account for educational credentials. The results also provide evidence on the role of skill demands …

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Overeducation and wages : the role of cognitive skills and personality traits

Palczyńska, Marta - In: Baltic journal of economics 21 (2021) 1, pp. 85-111

This article investigates the extent to which personality traits and cognitive skills can be seen as potential determinants of overeducation, and can explain the overeducation wage penalty. Using a representative survey of the Polish working-age population with well-established measures of...

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Are Poles stuck in overeducation? : individual dynamics of educational mismatch in Poland

Baran, Jan Aleksander - In: Baltic journal of economics 24 (2024) 1, pp. 145-179

yearly changes in employment status, occupation, and wages. The results show that overeducated workers are more likely to …

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Panel evidence on within-occupation change in job tasks and individual wages

Müller, Gerrit - 2024

Drawing on newly available panel data, this paper presents an empirical analysis of the wage effects of changing job tasks, assessed for individuals at their workplace. I am therefore able to exploit within-occupation within-individual variation, over time, to study wage returns to cognitive,...

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The returns to school-quality-adjusted education of immigrants in Germany

Quang, Huy Le; Vallizadeh, Ehsan - In: Journal for labour market research 56 (2022) 1, pp. 1-15

This paper explores the role of school quality in immigrants' home countries on their earnings in Germany, using native … gap in the returns to education between natives and immigrants in Germany, especially when we consider the quality of … explaining the imperfect transferability of human capital of immigrants in Germany. …

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Skills and employment transitions in Brazil

Adamczyk, Willian; Ehrl, Philipp; Monasteiro, Leonardo - 2022

and wages. Their labour market exit risk is relatively low, occupational and sectoral changes are least common and, in the …

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Skill heterogeneity and market labour income inequality

Medrano Adán, Luís Ángel; Salas-Fumás, Vicente; … - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 15 (2024) 2, pp. 203-234

Occupational choice models predict that, ceteris paribus, countries with higher dispersion of skill will have higher market labour income inequality. However, an extended conclusion from empirical research is that cross-country variations in dispersion of skill explain little of the variation in...

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The schooling response to a sustained increase in low-skill wages : evidence from Spain 1989-2009

Lacuesta, Aitor; Puente, Sergio; Villanueva, Ernesto - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 11 (2020) 4, pp. 457-499

UK or Germany, Spain has experienced between 1995 and 2008 a drop in the returns to medium and tertiary education and … forms of human capital acquisition to relative increases in low-skill wages. We measure the expected returns to schooling … using skill-specific wages bargained in collective agreements at the province-industry level. We argue that those wages are …

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Asymmetric information, credential assessment services and earnings of new immigrants

Monteiro, Stein - 2022

Based on the 2016 Canadian Census of Population, some immigrant groups have higher entry-earning returns on their ability than others, and experience a lot more variation in earnings given similar variations in ability compared to other groups. The uneven variance in earnings given similar...

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