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Returns to Overeducation : A Longitudinal Analysis in the U.S. Labor Market

Tsai, Yuping - 2010

Studies examining the wage effect of overeducation have generated very consistent results. Their findings suggest that, for workers with similar educational attainment, workers who are overeducated for the job suffer from significant wage penalties. However, most studies use cross-sectional...

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Building bridges and widening gaps : wage gains and equity concerns of labor market expansions

Bütikofer, Aline; Løken, Katrine V.; Willén, Alexander - 2020

We exploit the construction of the Öresund bridge, which connects a medium-sized city in Sweden to the capital of Denmark, to study the labor market effects of gaining access to a larger labor market. Using unique cross-country matched registry data that allow us to follow individuals across...

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Worker beliefs about outside options

Jäger, Simon; Roth, Christopher; Roussille, Nina; … - 2021

underestimate wages elsewhere. We document this anchoring bias by eliciting workers' beliefs in a representative survey in Germany …-wage firms, would not be viable at current wages. …

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Three Elements of Personnel Policy : Worker Flows, Retention and Pay

Bingley, Paul; Westergaard-Nielsen, Niels - 1999

This paper describes how personnel policies vary between establishments with respect to pay, tenure and worker flows. In particular we have analysed to what extent higher pay is related to higher or lower turnover among the work force and more or less seniority. Can higher pay be considered a...

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Job Instability and Wages for Young Adult Men

Bernhardt, Annette D.; Morris, Martina; Handcock, Mark; … - 2001

datasets in the field and conduct a thorough attrition analysis. Extending the analysis to wages, we find that the wage returns …

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Job Instability and Wages for Young Adult Men

Bernhardt, Annette D.; Morris, Martina; Handcock, Mark; … - 1999

datasets in the field and conduct a thorough attrition analysis. Extending the analysis to wages, we find that the wage returns …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014202847

Employment cyclicality and firm quality

Kahn, Lisa B.; McEntarfer, Erika - 2014

Who fares worse in an economic downturn, low- or high-paying firms? Different answers to this question imply very different consequences for the costs of recessions. Using U.S. employer-employee data, we find that employment growth at low-paying firms is less cyclically sensitive. High-paying...

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To shape the future : how labor market entry conditions affect individuals s long-run wage profiles

Brunner, Beartice; Kuhn, Andreas - 2009

We study the long-run effects of initial labor market conditions on wages for a large sample of male individuals … starting wages. This initial effect turns out to be quite persistent and even though wages do catch up later on, large effects … aggregate level are key to explain wages' adjustment process in the longer run. …

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The racial wage gap : the importance of labor force attachment differences across black, Mexican and white men

Antecol, Heather; Bedard, Kelly - 2001

Labor market attachment differs significantly across black, Mexican and white men; black and Mexican men are more likely to experience unemployment and out of the labor force spells than are white men. While it has long been agreed that potential experience is a poor proxy of actual experience...

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Building Bridges and Widening Gaps : Wage Gains and Equity Concerns of Labor Market Expansions

Bütikofer, Aline - 2020

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