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Field of study, qualification mismatch, and wages: Does sorting matter?
Berlingieri, Francesco; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2014
Graduates from Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) are usually found to have higher wages and a … characteristics, such as ability. Using data on German male graduates we show that unobserved heterogeneity indeed matters for … differences in the risk of overqualification and wages when STEM graduates are compared to the Business & Law group, while it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010420400
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Field of study, qualification mismatch, and wages: Does sorting matter?
Berlingieri, Francesco; Zierahn, Ulrich - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
Graduates from Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) are usually found to have higher wages and a … characteristics, such as ability. Using data on German male graduates we show that unobserved heterogeneity indeed matters for … differences in the risk of overqualification and wages when STEM graduates are compared to the Business & Law group, while it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957739
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Gregariousness, interactive jobs and wages
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Schulz, Nico Johannes - 2011
Gregariousness is an important aspect of human life with implications for labour market outcomes. The paper examines, to the best of our knowledge for the first time for Germany, gregariousness and social interaction at the workplace and associated wage differentials. Our empirical findings with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304337
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Gregariousness, interactive jobs and wages
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Schulz, Nico Johannes - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
Gregariousness is an important aspect of human life with implications for labour market outcomes. The paper examines, to the best of our knowledge for the first time for Germany, gregariousness and social interaction at the workplace and associated wage differentials. Our empirical findings with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008869226
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Comparing the part-time wage gap in Germany and the Netherlands
Wolf, Elke - 2001
-timers. Using the Netherlands as a benchmark, helps to assess the size and seriousness of the estimated wage differentials in … Germany and the Netherlands, taking into account individual and job-specific characteristics and treating participation and … years in employment. The comparison with the wage structure in the Netherlands, which exhibits much smaller wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297754
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How acid are lemons? Adverse selection and signalling for skilled labour market entrants
Wagner, Robert; Zwick, Thomas - 2012
This paper jointly analyses the consequences of adverse selection and signalling on entry wages of skilled employees. It uses German linked employer employee panel data (LIAB) and introduces a measure for relative productivity of skilled job applicants based on apprenticeship wages. It shows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010308278
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Expertise at work: New technologies, new skills, and worker impacts
Lipowski, Cäcilia; Salomons, Anna; Zierahn-Weilage, Ulrich - 2024
We study how new digital technology reshapes vocational training and skill acquisition and its impact on workers' careers. We construct a novel database of legally binding training curricula and changes therein, spanning the near universe of vocational training in Germany over five decades, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014580657
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Do Computers Call for Training? Firm-level Evidence on Complementarities Between ICT and Human Capital Investments
Hempell, Thomas - 2003
This paper explores whether investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) and firm?sponsored training programmes are complementary. Three approaches are applied to panel data from German service companies for the time period 1994?98. Results for a system of interrelated factor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297271
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The Impact of Training on Earnings: Differences Between Participant Groups and Training Forms
Kuckulenz, Anja; Zwick, Thomas - 2003
While there is a broad literature on the general wage effect of training, little is known about the effects of different training forms and about the effects for heterogeneous training participants. This study therefore adds two aspects to the literature on earnings effects of training. First,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297306
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Die Anatomie des Berufswechsels: Eine empirische Bestandsaufnahme auf Basis der BIBB/IAB-Daten 1998/1999
Spitz, Alexandra; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2004
Unter dem Stichwort "Patchwork-Biografien" wird die Tatsache, dass ein großer Teil der abhängig Beschäftigten ihren erlernten Beruf nicht mehr ausüben, in jüngster Zeit viel diskutiert. Diese Studie liefert einen empirischen Beitrag zur Anatomie der Berufswechsel für westdeutsche Männer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297321