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Comparing micro-evidence on rent sharing from three different approaches

Dobbelaere, Sabien; Mairesse, Jacques - 2015

Empirical labor economists have resorted to estimating the responsiveness of workers' wages on firms' ability to pay to assess the extent to which employers share rents with their employees. This paper compares this labor economics approach with two other approaches that rely on standard micro...

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Comparing micro-evidence on rent sharing from two different econometric models

Dobbelaere, Sabien; Mairesse, Jacques - 2017

Researchers contributing to the empirical rent-sharing literature have typically resorted to estimating the responsiveness of workers' wages on firms' ability to pay in order to assess the extent to which employers share rents with their employees. This paper compares rent-sharing estimates...

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Imports as product and labour market discipline

Boulhol, Hervé; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Maioli, Sara - 2008

manufacturing sectors to simultaneously estimate mark-up and workers’ bargaining power parameters according to sector, firm size and … period. We find a significant drop in both the mark-up and the workers’ bargaining power in the mid-nineties. In the second … significantly contributed to the decrease in both mark-ups and workers’ bargaining power. …

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Early life circumstances and life cycle labor market outcomes

Flores, Manuel; Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Kalwij, Adriaan S. - 2015

We investigate how early life circumstances - childhood health and socioeconomic status (SES) - are associated with labor market outcomes over an individualś entire life cycle. A life cycle approach provides insights not only into which labor market outcomes are associated with adverse...

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Dual track or academic route for auditors

Jonker, Nicole; Ophem, Hans van; Hartog, Joop - 2002

In the Netherlands auditors can be trained in a part-time educational track in which students combine working and studying or in a full-time educational track. The former training is relatively firm-specific whereas the latter training is relatively general. Applying human capital theory, we...

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Educational choice, initial wage and wage growth

Mazza, Jacopo; Ophem, Hans van - 2020

We investigate the major choice of college graduates where we make choice dependent on expected initial wages and expected wage growth per major. We build a model that allows us to estimate these factors semiparametrically and that corrects for selection bias. We estimate the model on the...

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Returns to routine job tasks in the German labour market : an instrumental variables approach

Mihaylov, Emil - 2021 - Revision November 2021

This paper studies the impact of routine job tasks on workers wages in the German labour market. Using nationally representative data from the German Employment Survey, the paper finds that routine job tasks are negatively and significantly associated with workers hourly wages; the negative...

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A cointegration model for search equilibrium wage formation

Broersma, Lourens; Butter, Frank A. G. den; Kock, Udo - 2003

In flow models of the labor market, wages are determined by negotiations between workers and employers on the surplus value of a realized match. From this perspective our study presents an econometric analysis of the influence of labor market flows on wage formation as alternative to the...

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Returns to on-the-job search and the dispersion of wages

Gottfries, Axel; Teulings, Coen N. - 2016

A wide class of models with On-the-Job Search (OJS) predicts that workers gradually select into better-paying jobs, until lay-off occurs, when this selection process starts over from scratch. We develop a simple methodology to test these predictions. Our inference uses two sources of...

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Changing returns to education in Portugal during the 1980s and early 1990s : OLS and quantile regression estimators

Hartog, Joop; Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Vieira, José … - 1999

This paper examines the evolution of the returns to education in Portugal over the 1980s andearly 1990s. The main findings indicate that the returns to education have increased,particularly after joining the European Union in 1986. Since this occurred along with anincrease in the level of...

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