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Trade competition, technology and labor re-allocation
Bahar Baziki, Selva; Ginja, Rita; Borota Milicevic, Teodora - 2016
provide new evidence on the mobility of heterogeneous workers across firms and document increased assortative matching of … sorting patterns. We rationalize our empirical findings through a labor market matching model which is able to explain the … increased assortative matching in ICT intensive industries through an increase in the relative demand for qualified workers. …
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It pays to study for the right job : exploring the causes and consequences of education-occupation job mismatch
Rios-Avila, Fernando; Saavedra Caballero, Fabiola - 2019
With the rapid increase in educational attainment, technological change, and greater job specialization, decisions regarding human capital investment are no longer exclusively about the quantity of education, but rather the type of education to obtain. The skills and knowledge acquired in...
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A panel study of immigrants' overeducation and earnings in Australia
Wen, Le; Maani, Sholeh A. - 2017
The recent literature on overeducation has provided divergent results on whether or not overeducation bears an earnings penalty. In addition, few studies have considered overeducation among immigrants. This paper uses panel data analyses to investigate the match between education and occupation...
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Occupational match quality and gender over two cohorts
Addison, John T.; Liwen, Chen; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - 2017
Job mobility, especially early in a career, is an important source of wage growth. This effect is typically attributed to heterogeneity in the quality of employee-employer matches, with individuals learning of their abilities and discovering the tasks at which they are most productive through...
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Are school-provided skills useful at work? : results of the wiles test
Liwiński, Jacek; Pastore, Francesco - 2017
We test for the signalling hypothesis versus human capital theory using the Wiles test (1974) in a country which has experienced a dramatic increase in the supply of skills. For this purpose, we construct a job match index based on the usefulness of the school-provided skills and the relevance...
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Investment subsidies and regional welfare : a dynamic framework
Korzhenevych, Artem; Bröcker, Johannes - 2018
Subsidising investment in lagging regions is an important regional policy instrument in many countries. Some argue that this instrument is not specific enough to concentrate the aid towards the regions that are lagging behind most, because investment subsidies benefit capital owners who might...
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Racial Gaps, Occupational Matching, and Skill Uncertainty
Golan, Limor - 2019
White workers in the United States earn almost 30 percent more per hour on average than Black workers, and this wage gap is associated with large racial differences in occupational assignments. In this article, we theoretically and empirically examine the Black-White disparity in occupations....
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Wage effects of educational mismatch according to workers' origin: the role of demographics and firm characteristics
Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2021
This paper examines the influence of educational mismatch on wages according to workers' region of birth, taking advantage of our access to rich matched employer-employee data for the Belgian private sector for the period 1999-2010. Using a fine-grained approach to measuring educational mismatch...
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Are school-provided skills useful at work? : results of the Wiles test
Liwiński, Jacek; Pastore, Francesco - 2017
We test for the signalling hypothesis versus human capital theory using the Wiles test (1974) in a country which has experienced a dramatic increase in the supply of skills. For this purpose, we construct a job match index based on the usefulness of the school-provided skills and the relevance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012128718
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Career paths of PhD graduates in Eastern and Western Germany : same qualification, same labor market outcomes?
Rehs, Andreas; Fuchs, Michaela - 2020
This paper investigates the extent to which the returns to gaining a PhD degree depend upon the region of birth, the region where the degree was earned, and the place of work. Eastern Germany serves as an interesting showcase in light of the ongoing debate surrounding the underrepresentation of...
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