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We augment the standard asymmetric learning model with costly effort. With this adjustment, wages become fully … wage controls and salary history bans. Permitting workers to disclose their wages to outside firms results in an …
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labor market. In an environment of high uncertainty, risk averse and heterogeneous workers face a trade-off between wages … firm where they accept lower wages as a price for security. In this framework, wage arrears can be viewed as an element of …
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This paper examines impacts of childhood health on SES outcomes observed during adulthood-levels and trajectories of education, family income, household wealth, individual earnings and labor supply. The analysis is conducted using data that collects these SES measures in a panel who were...
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differentially from these public investments. It is also desirable to comprehend whether schooling translates into increases in wages … schooling on wages and whether the additional schooling induced by the programme had differential impacts for men and women. To … is found to cause higher wages for men and women and there appears to be an additional positive effect on wages for women …
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This paper examines impacts of childhood health on SES outcomes observed during adulthood- levels and trajectories of education, family income, household wealth, individual earnings and labor supply. The analysis is conducted using data that collects these SES measures in a panel who were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003870275
We estimate the effects of a mandate allocating a third of corporate board seats to workers (shared governance). We study a reform in Germany that abruptly abolished this mandate for certain firms incorporated after August 1994 but locked it in for the older cohorts. In sharp contrast to the...
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Many studies have found that Chinese Communist Party membership brings economic benefits to party members, but some studies also argue that the premium associated with party membership is merely due to members' higher levels of ability and advantageous family backgrounds. The lack of consensus...
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This paper examines impacts of childhood health on SES outcomes observed during adulthood-levels and trajectories of education, family income, household wealth, individual earnings and labor supply. The analysis is conducted using data that collects these SES measures in a panel who were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013152233
We estimate the effects of a mandate allocating a third of corporate board seats to workers (shared governance). We study a reform in Germany that abruptly abolished this mandate for certain firms incorporated after August 1994 but locked it in for the older cohorts. In sharp contrast to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138860
This article introduces the 2006 Earnings Public-Use File (EPUF) and provides important background information on the file's data fields. The EPUF contains selected demographic and earnings information for 4.3 million individuals drawn from a 1-percent sample of all Social Security numbers...
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