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host country. Motivated by the critical age hypothesis, we identify the causal effects of English skills on socioeconomic … English skills.We also find that acquiring better English-language skills improves the educational attainment and labor and …
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host country. Motivated by the critical age hypothesis, we identify the causal effects of English skills on socioeconomic … English skills. We also find that acquiring better English-language skills improves the educational attainment and labor and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022420
associated with wages and vacancy duration. Using more than 1.5 million job postings administered by the Austrian public … jobs to wage postings. Moreover, I estimate skill associations with starting wages for a subset of vacancies which can be … occupation fixed-effects, there exists a robust association between the number of skill requirements and wages. In particular …
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to obtain. The skills and knowledge acquired in specific fields of study are more valuable for some jobs compared to … workers' wages and to explore the factors that contribute to the existence of such mismatch among workers with higher …
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We use linked data for 1,460 workplaces and 19,853 employees from the Workplace Employee Relations Survey 1998 to analyse the incidence and duration of employee training in Britain. We find training to be positively associated with having a recognised vocational qualification and current union...
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This article explores whether a relationship exists between the skill shortages that a market faces, and the wages in … that workers in markets with higher levels of skill shortages receive higher wages, although this effect is minimal. For …
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There is considerable debate on whether the employment and earnings prospects are better for those on low pay or for the unemployed. We use Understanding Society data for England and estimate dynamic random effects panel models which show robust evidence that the future unemployment risk is...
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only uncovered using within year variation in wages to reveal intensity of labour market attachment. …
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taking the initial conditions problem and potential endogeneity of panel attrition into account. In line with results from …
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the relative wages of unskilled workers. However, workers are not immutably either low skill or high skill, and skill …
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