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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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increasing the informational content of grades, central exams may improve the sorting of students by productivity. To test this …
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quality, as well as the efficiency of an employment relationship. Hence, it can be explained why productivity and service …
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This paper sheds light on how changes in the organization of work can help to understand increasing wage inequality. We present a theoretical model in which workers with a wider span of competence (higher level of multitasking) earn a wage premium. Since abilities and opportunities to expand the...
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('Native Germans'). We base our analysis on a sorting model with productivity enhancing effects of education. We compare …
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We determine workforce composition and wages in firms in the presence of productivity spill-overs between co …
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While the output of a team is evident, the productivity of each team member is typically not readily identifiable. In … this paper we consider the problem of measuring the productivity of team members. We propose a new concept of coworker … productivity, which we refer to as eigenvalue productivity (EVP). We demonstrate the existence and uniqueness of our concept and …
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productivity depends on their age through the build-up of labour market experience and the depreciation of human capital. We make … wisdom following an increase in longevity, depending on the corresponding change in the age-productivity profile …
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observed increase productivity at least initially when compensation is team based, while we find that subjects observing react …
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acquiring human capital. Both sectors exhibit productivity externalities in the size of the skill-specific labor and in the …
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