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Workers' job prospects and young firm dynamics
Kim, Seula - 2025
that learning generates endogenous wage differentials for young firms. High-performing young firms must pay higher wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015191435
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Heterogeneity, uncertainty and learning : semiparametric identification and estimation
Bunting, Jackson; Diegert, Paul; Maurel, Arnaud - 2025
We provide identification results for a broad class of learning models in which continuous outcomes depend on three … estimator exhibits good finite-sample properties. Finally, we illustrate our approach with an application to ability learning in … the context of occupational choice. Our results point to substantial ability learning based on realized wages. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015417780
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The optimality of heterogeneous tournaments
Gürtler, Marc; Gürtler, Oliver - 2013
We investigate the effect of employee heterogeneity on the incentive to put forth effort in a market-based tournament. Employers use the tournament's outcome to estimate employees' abilities and accordingly condition their wage offers. Employees put forth effort, because by doing so they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010311042
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City Air or City Markets: Productivity Gains in Urban Areas
Krupka, Douglas James - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
time spent in the urban environment (and thus learning), or job changes. The evidence suggests that both these processes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703768
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The Sources of the Urban Wage Premium by Worker Skills
Andersson, Martin; Klaesson, Johan; Larsson, Johan P - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2014
We estimate the respective importance of spatial sorting and agglomeration economies in explaining the urban wage premium for workers with different sets of skills. Sorting is the main source of the wage premium. Agglomeration economies are in general small, but are larger for workers with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775182
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The optimality of heterogeneous tournaments
Gürtler, Marc; Gürtler, Oliver - Department Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische … - 2013
We investigate the effect of employee heterogeneity on the incentive to put forth effort in a market-based tournament. Employers use the tournament's outcome to estimate employees' abilities and accordingly condition their wage offers. Employees put forth effort, because by doing so they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010985510
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Wage Policy of Firms: An Empirical Investigation
Lluis, Stéphanie - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2001
, job rank assignments based on comparative advantage and learning about workers' abilities, is implemented empirically to … direct evidence of learning about workers' unobserved abilities but the analysis reveals that unmeasured ability is an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005417566
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The Role of Comparative Advantage and Learning in Wage Dynamics and Intra-Firm Mobility: Evidence from Germany
Lluis, Stephanie - Center for Human Resources and Labor Studies, Carlson …
human capital accumulation, job rank assignment based on comparative advantage, and learning about workers' ability. The … evidence of learning about workers' unobserved ability, but the analysis reveals the unmeasured ability is an important factor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005456368
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The Role of Comparative Advantage and Learning in Wage Dynamics and Intrafirm Mobility: Evidence from Germany
Lluis, Stéphanie - International Conferences on Panel Data - 2002
, job rank assignments based on comparative advantage and learning about workers' abilities, is implemented empirically to … direct evidence of learning about workers' unobserved abilities but the analysis reveals that unmeasured ability is an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005132975
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Workers' job prospects and young firm dynamics
Kim, Seula - 2025
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015339714