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contribution is to allow endogeneity of both education and occupation by estimating a quasi-maximum-likelihood discrete factor … administrative registers for 1998-2002. We generally find an independent role of both education and occupation on temporary work …, the effects of education and occupation on permanent work incapacity are generally insignificant. …
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Information on both earnings and non-pecuniary rewards is needed to understand the occupational dispersion of wellbeing. We analyse subjective wellbeing in a large UK sample to construct a measure of "full earnings", the sum of earnings and the value of non-pecuniary rewards, in 90 different...
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The ambiguity in the relationship between self-employment and educational attainment is well documented in the literature. Using an extensive individual level dataset from Periodic Labor Force Survey, we estimate the probability of being self-employed in India based on educational attainments....
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is occupation-biased but age neutral whereas the reinstatement effect is age-biased and benefits young workers most. …
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that training has no significant impact on the mean offered wage in bluecollar occupation, but training increases the mean … offered wage in white-collar occupation by 19 percent. Training also substantially increases the job offer rates in both …
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This paper analyzes the labor mobility and human capital accumulation of male immigrants who moved from the former Soviet Union to Israel. We formulate an estimable dynamic choice model for employment and training in blue and white-collar occupations, where the labor market randomly offered...
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occupation explain the main part of this gap and seem to lead to a permanent wage disadvantage throughout the early career. …
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period 1991-2001 we show that perhaps one-quarter of women moving from full- to part-time work move to an occupation at a … within the occupation is far more important than the presence of a pre-school child in determining whether a woman moves to a … lower-level occupation. These findings indicate a loss of economic efficiency through the underutilisation of the skills of …
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Two particular features of the position of women in the British labour market are the extensive role of part-time work and the large part-time pay penalty. Part-time work features most prominently when women are in their 30s, the peak childcare years and, particularly for more educated women, a...
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Using data from the 2001 Australian Census of Population and Housing, on adult men in full-time employment, this paper augments a conventional human capital earnings function with information on occupations. It also estimates models of occupational attainment. The results from both the earnings...
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