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layer is very positively (negatively) correlated with value added. We then explore the changes in the wages and number of … expand substantially add layers and pay lower average wages in all pre-existing layers. In contrast, firms that expand little … and do not reorganize pay higher average wages in all pre-existing layers. …
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following arrival, wages of highly skilled immigrants grow at 8% a year. Rising prices of skills, occupational transitions …, accumulated experience in Israel and economy-wide rise in wages account for 3.4, 1.1, 1.5 and 1.4% each. In the long run, the … average wages of immigrants approach but do not converge to the wages of comparable natives. The main reason for that is the …
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Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new …
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Using micro data on women in the Czech Republic, we compare returns to various measures of human capital at the end of communism (1989), in mid-transition (1996) and in late/post-transition (2002). We show: dramatic increases in returns to education from 1989 to 1996 but no change from 1996 to 2002;...
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-economic background. We use this exogenous variation in the demand for education to estimate the effect of education on wages as well as …
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The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997--2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of low-skill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labour market outcomes. This is...
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We use a quantile regression framework to investigate the degree to which work-related training affects the location, scale and shape of the conditional wage distribution. Human capital theory suggests that the percentage returns to training investments will be the same across the conditional...
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arrival, wages of highly skilled immigrants grow at 8.13% a year. Rising prices of skills, occupational transitions …, accumulated experience in Israel, economy-wide rise in wages and repeated sampling account for 4.3, 3.1, 1.6, 1.2 and 2% each …. There is convergence to natives in the occupational distribution, but not in wages. In the long run, the return for …
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Germany has experienced a substantial influx of German immigrants from Eastern Europe after World War II and expects … German migrants to West Germany in comparison with native born West Germans. Ethnic German immigrants from Eastern Europe … from East Germany. Similar to foreign guest-workers, German immigrants are more likely to work in blue collar jobs; they do …
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In this Paper we extend the standard human capital earnings function to include dispersion in the rate of return to schooling by treating the return as a random coefficient. One motivation is that if dipping further into the ability distribution has brought about the increase in supply of...
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