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Tenure-based Wage Setting
Hart, Robert A.; Ritchie, Felix - 1999
We provide empirical support for the contention that within-job wage growth relates purely to job-specific performance … and that returns to general experience are assessed at the point of job change. Using the British New Earnings Survey …
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Wage premia for newly hired employees: Theory and evidence
Kampkötter, Patrick; Sliwka, Dirk - 2011
We investigate wage differences between newly hired and incumbent employees. We show in a formal model that when employees care for wages as well as match-specific utility, incumbents earn less than new recruits if and only if firm-specific human capital is not too important. The existence and...
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Occupational Mobility and Wage Inequality
Kambourov, Gueorgui; Manovskii, Iourii - 2004
increase in the variability of transitory earnings. …
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Earnings function in Lebanon : does religion matter?
Harb, Nasri - In: Applied economics 54 (2022) 7, pp. 821-840
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Earnings and gender wage gap in Lebanon : the role of the human and social capital
Harb, Nasri; Rouhana, Tony - In: Applied economics 52 (2020) 44, pp. 4834-4849
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Job search, human capital and wage inequality
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos - 2012
The objective of this paper is to construct and quantitatively assess an equilibrium search model with on-the-job search and general human capital accumulation. In the model workers enter the labour market with different abilities and firms differ in their productivities. Wages are dispersed...
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The Complementarity of Language and Other Human Capital: Immigrant Earnings in Canada
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2002
This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 … Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with … languages enhances the effects on earnings of schooling and pre-immigration labor market experience. Language proficiency and …
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Educational mismatch and promotions to managerial positions : a test of the career mobility theory
Grunau, Philipp; Pecoraro, Marco - In: Applied economics 49 (2017) 12, pp. 1226-1240
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Intrafirm Mobility and Sex Differences in Pay
Oaxaca, Ronald L.; Ransom, Michael R. - 2003
job titles, wage rates, and earnings for all employees. We examine initial job assignments, mobility between departments … departments and jobs within the firm as a Markov process. The estimated transition probabilities imply that expected seniority is …
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Transferability of human capital and immigrant assimilation: an analysis for Germany
Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K. - 2010
This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience...
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