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. Using data from the 1980-2000 U.S. censuses and the 2005-2010 American Community Surveys, we show that these wage premiums …
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Relatively little is known about the youth labour market in general and about gender differences in Mongolia, one of the fifty poorest countries in the world. This paper addresses the issue by taking advantage of a School to Work Survey (SWTS) on young people aged 15-29 years carried out in...
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suffer the highest overskilling wage penalty, offers an alternative and useful perspective to compare the attributes of …
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We use household panel data to explore the wage returns associated with training incidence and intensity (duration) for … not. Using decomposition analysis, training is found to be positively associated with wage dispersion: a virtuous circle … of wage gains and training exists in Britain but only for white-collar employees …
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We use British household panel data to explore the wage returns to training incidence and intensity (duration) for 6924 … further conclude that training is positively associated with wage dispersion in Britain and a virtuous circle of wage gains …
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Using a semi-structural approach based on a dynamic monopsony model, we examine to what extent workers performing different job tasks are exposed to different degrees of monopsony power, and whether these differences in monopsony power have changed over the last 30 years. We find that workers...
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Studies of individual wage dynamics typically ignore firm heterogeneity, whereas decompositions of earnings into worker … and firm effects abstract from life-cycle considerations. We study firm effects in individual wage dynamics using …-related wage components exploiting the informative content of the wage covariance structure of coworkers. Wage inequality increases …
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This paper explores the effects of a spouse's personality on earnings. We build on the growing literature spanning economics and psychology that investigates how personality traits affect one's own individual earnings. In particular, several of the big five personality characteristics...
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, systemising traits are associated with higher wage returns than empathising traits and that a Type-S brain (also known as a Male …-brain, entailing greater skills in directing systems) is associated with higher wage rewards than a Type-E brain (also known as a … Female-brain, entailing more social skills). In addition, wage decompositions suggest that systemising traits can explain …
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The recent literature on overeducation has provided divergent results on whether or not overeducation bears an earnings penalty. In addition, few studies have considered overeducation among immigrants. This paper uses panel data analyses to investigate the match between education and occupation...
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