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demographics (workers' region of birth, education, and gender) and employer characteristics (firm size and collective bargaining). …This paper analyses the wage effects of educational mismatch by workers' origin using a sizeable, detailed matched … that over-educated workers, regardless of their origin, suffer a wage penalty compared to their well-matched former …
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We estimate the impact of education on productivity, wage costs and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using Belgian …. Firms’ profitability is found to rise when lower educated workers are substituted by higher educated ones. This effect is … found to be more pronounced among younger workers and women. Findings thus suggest that the productivity to wage cost ratio …
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Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs in the European Union. We identify the characteristics of the … entrepreneurs fare in the labor market compared to natives. Employing data from the German Socioeconomic Panel 2000 release we find …
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Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs in the European Union. We identify the characteristics of the self …-employed individuals and understand their underlying drive into selfemployment. At the same time we investigate how immigrant entrepreneurs …
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Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into good and bad jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that this...
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Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008936432
Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009130116
workers born in developed countries benefit from positive wage returns to their years of attained-, required and over-education ….e. workers with the same level of education in jobs that match their education). However, the magnitude of this wage penalty is … penalty associated with over-education is higher for workers who: i) have attained tertiary education, ii) are male, iii) have …
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Refugee workers start low and adjust slowly to the wages of comparable natives. The innovative approach in this study …
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Refugee workers start low and adjust slowly to the wages of comparable natives. The innovative approach in this study …
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