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Jones, Melanie K. - 2009

This paper integrates two strands of literature on overskilling and disability using the 2004 British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS). It finds that the disabled are significantly more likely to be mismatched in the labour market, to suffer from a pay penalty and to have lower job...

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Wages and Seniority When Coworkers Matter : Estimating a Joint Production Economy Using Norwegian Administrative Data

Ferrall, Christopher - 2009

We develop an equilibrium model of wages and estimate it using administrative data from Norway. Coworkers interact … through a task-assignment model, and wages are determined through multi-lateral bargaining over the surplus that accrues to … the workforce. Seniority affects wages through workplace output and relative bargaining power. These channels are …

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Sources of Wage Growth

Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian - 2022

-worker productivity matches. Estimating this model using longitudinal administrative data over three decades, we show that RM skills are a …-abstract (CA) and routine-manual (RM) skills, and job mobility is induced by non-pecuniary job attributes and persistent firm … key driver of early wage growth while CA skills become important later on. Moreover, job amenities are an important …

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Disability and Job Mismatches in the Australian Labour Market

Jones, Melanie K. - 2011

We examine the relationship between disability, job mismatch, earnings and job satisfaction, using panel estimation on data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey (2001-2008). While we do not find any relationship between work-limiting disability and...

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A Biological Basis for the Gender Wage Gap : Fecundity and Age and Educational Hypogamy

Polachek, Solomon W. - 2014

This paper shows how a shorter fecundity horizon for females (a biological constraint) leads to age and educational disparities between husbands and wives. Empirical support is based on data from a natural experiment commencing before and ending after China's 1980 one-child law. The results...

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Assessing the Importance of Male and FemalePart-Time Work for the Gender Earnings Gap in Britain

Mumford, Karen; Smith, Peter N. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This study examines the role of individual characteristics, occupation, industry, region, andworkplace characteristics in accounting for differences in hourly earnings between men andwomen in full and part-time jobs in Britain. A four-way gender-working time split (male fulltimers,male...

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Micro Foundations of Earnings Differences

Das, Tirthatanmoy - 2017

knowledge are most influential in explaining earnings variations. Marketable skills actually acquired in school depend on these …

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Earnings Over the Life Cycle : The Mincer Earnings Function and its Applications

Polachek, Solomon W. - 2021

In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings are distributed across the population. In the years since Mincer's seminal work, he as well as his students and colleagues extended the original human capital model, reaching important conclusions about a whole array...

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The Timing of Careers and Human Capital Depreciation

Kunze, Astrid - 2021

This paper explores the short and long run effects of career interruptions on wages for young skilled workers in West …

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Border Enforcement and Selection of Mexican Immigrants in the United States

Lozano, Fernando - 2010

Since 1986 the United States has made considerable efforts to curb illegal immigration. This has resulted in an increase in migration costs for undocumented immigrants. More stringent border enforcement either deters potential illegal immigrants from coming to the U.S., or moves the point of...

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