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High- and low-wage occupations are expanding rapidly relative to middle-wage occupations in both the U.S. and the E.U. We study the reallocation of workers from middle-skill occupations towards the tails of the occupational skill distribution by analyzing changes in age structure within and...
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High- and low-wage occupations are expanding rapidly relative to middle-wage occupations in both the U.S. and the E.U. We study the reallocation of workers from middle-skill occupations towards the tails of the occupational skill distribution by analyzing changes in age structure within and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765086
show firstly that education, skills, training requirements and the compensation structure affect employment and re-employment … model of occupational age structure, its determinants and their impact on employment and re-employment opportunities for … exert a clear-cut influence on employment and re-employment at older ages. Our findings suggest that future labor market …
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learned in school with those demanded by employers. Reducing the emphasis on seniority in setting wages by moving to more … flexible systems and expanding training to improve the skills of older persons would allow them to extend their careers …
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the official school starting age. It investigates the effects of early enrollment on educational attainment, wages and …
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the official school starting age. It investigates the effects of early enrollment on educational attainment, wages and …
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. More precisely, we estimate the role of ethnic identity in employment, wages, under-employment (i.e., they would prefer to … work more hours but are not given the opportunity), three measures of job satisfaction, overeducation and wages. We further … that ethnic identity is strongly associated with employment and wages as well a number of job satisfaction measures. We …
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Every year millions of young adults join the labor market in Africa. This paper uses the Jobs of the World Database to compare their job prospects to those of their counterparts in other low-income regions. We show that employment rates are similar at similar levels of development but young...
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. More precisely, we estimate the role of ethnic identity in employment, wages, under-employment (i.e., they would prefer to … work more hours but are not given the opportunity), three measures of job satisfaction, overeducation and wages. We further … that ethnic identity strongly is associated with employment and wages as well a number of job satisfaction measures. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012422534
, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We … find a positive, yet heterogeneous, effect of trade on immigrant employment but no effect on immigrant wages. …
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