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Mr. Rosaen's magical thinking : a short evaluation of Alex Rosaen's 2013 prevailing wage methodology

Philips, Peter R. - 2013

This paper critically reviews Alex L. Rosaen, The Impact of Michigan's Prevailing Wage Law on Education Construction … Expenditures, Anderson Economic Group, LLC, Commissioned by the Associated Builders and Contractors of Michigan, 2013. It is shown … that Rosaen's estimates of the prevailing wage regulatory impact on Michigan educational capital outlays swing widely from …

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The Aims of Lifelong Learning : Age-Related Effects of Training on Wages and Job Security

Lang, Julia - 2012

This study analyses the effects of training participation on wages and perceived job security for employees of different ages. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, results indicate that only younger workers benefit from training by an increase in wages, whereas older employees’...

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A weighty issue revisited : the dynamic effect of body weight on earnings and satisfaction in Germany

Kropfhäußer, Frieder; Sunder, Marco - 2014

We estimate the relationship between changes in the body mass index (bmi) and wages or satisfaction, respectively, in a panel of German employees. In contrast to previous literature, the dynamic models indicate that there is an inverse u-shaped association between bmi and wages among young...

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The aims of lifelong learning : age-related effects of training on wages and job security

Lang, Julia - 2012

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The aims of lifelong learning : age-related effects of training on wages and job security

Lang, Julia - 2012

This paper reports the effects of training participation on wages and perceived job security for employees of different ages. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, results indicate that only younger workers benefit from training by an increase in wages, whereas older employees'...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009665027

Returning to work from injury : longitudinal evidence on employment and earnings

Crichton, Sarah (contributor); Stillman, Steven (contributor) - 2005

New Zealand has a unique accident insurance system that pays the direct costs of all accidental injuries and compensates workers 80% of their earnings for any time post-injury that they are unable to work. Statistics New Zealand's Linked Employer-Employee Database contains monthly information on...

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Effectiveness of social capital in the job search process

Koßmann, Ralf Werner - 2016

The empirical literature has provided ample yet contradictory evidence on the effectiveness of social ties in the job search process in terms of post-hire outcomes, such as wages or job satisfaction. Whereas early research, mainly focussing on the U.S. labour market, found positive correlations...

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Much ado about nothing? : the wage effect of holding a Ph.D. degree but not a Ph.D. job position

Gaeta, Giuseppe Lucio; Lubrano Lavadera, Giuseppe; … - 2016

of respondents is used as instrument. Our results suggest that genuine over-education is particularly detrimental for … for the country's compressed wage structure. These results allow us to better understanding the effects of job-education …

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Concentration and other wage determinants

Martins, Ana Paula - 2018

This research presents evidence on how the impact of industry concentration and unionism affect the Portuguese wage levels. The influence of employer association is also considered. We use sector information - two-digit level disaggregation of "Classificação das Actividades Económicas" -, and...

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Overeducation wage penalty among Ph.D. holders : an unconditional quantile regression analysis on Italian data

Gaeta, Giuseppe Lucio; Lubrano Lavadera, Giuseppe; … - 2018

The wage effect of job-education vertical mismatch (i.e. overeducation) has only recently been investigated in the case …

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