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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Job Mobility"”.
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Job Mobility and Measurement Error
This thesis consists of essays investigating job mobility and measurement error. Job mobility, captured here as a change of employer, is a striking feature of the labour market. In empirical work on job mobility, researchers often depend on self-reported tenure data to identify job changes. There …
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Dynamic Outcomes: Effects of Job Mobility in Germany and the UK
The concept of job mobility is useful to sociologists who see inequality as stemming from positions in a social structure, instead of the characteristics of those holding the positions. Yet, authors more often explore the causes of job mobility than its consequences. An important but rarely tested …
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Voluntary job mobility within the Water Services Corporation : analysing motivating factors across employee groups
… to which several factors influence voluntary job mobility within the Water Services Corporation (WSC). The list of variables includes situations and conditions at work, wage, training opportunities and career development, and family situations. The study also aims to determine any significant …
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The motivating factors of secondary school assistant principals in southeast Michigan and their impact on job mobility
… large role in determining individuals‟ level of job satisfaction. By affording a level of perceived empowerment, the environment of the workplace is a contributing factor toward encouraging or discouraging individual satisfaction.</p> <p>This study demonstrates the relationships that exist …
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Stories of Seventh-day Adventist Teachers of Color and their Voluntary Job Mobility During their Early Years of Teaching
… Adventist school system experience voluntary job mobility and attrition, contributing to increasing teacher turnover rates in the U.S. Since the 1954 federal mandate to desegregate U.S. public schools, this phenomenon has become more pressing. Despite racial and ethnic diversification in …
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Essays in the Economics of Aging
… issue addressed in the paper is the reduction in job mobility caused by a person receiving health insurance through an employer. Previous studies have tried to determine whether EPHI reduces job mobility. However, these studies provide conflicting evidence on the significance and magnitude of …
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Learning in the labor market
… that study the implication of learning on labor mobility, labor supply, wage distribution, wage dynamics, and allocations of workers under different assumptions about the nature of employer learning. The first essay develops a model of job mobility and wage dispersion under the assumption that …
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Multi-tier wage structures in a unionized environment: their effects upon worker perceptions
… it was hypothesized that positive perceptions of job mobility would be inversely related to the above measures. Support was found for between-tier differences in both pay satisfaction and pay equity. Support was also found for the inverse relationship between job mobility and all of the above …
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Essays on imperfect competition in the labor market
… also impact her productivity at her current job, we develop a novel identification strategy that generates within-individual (and within-firm-by-occupation) variation in workers' information about their outside options. This strategy, which we implement using linked employer-employee data …
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Male, Mobile, and Moneyed: Loss to Follow-up in an Urban African Antiretroviral Treatment Clinic
… loss was moving residence, predominantly due to job loss or change in employment. <b>Conclusion:</b> Half of LTFU in this ART cohort occurred before ART initiation, identifying this period as an important time for intervention. A broad definition of LTFU that includes those who have transferred …
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Three Papers in Labor Mobility and Human Capital Accumulation
… dissertation addresses the determinants of labor mobility, its impact in human capital accumulation, and the role played by human capital accumulation in the income distribution. Each topic is analyzed using different case studies: the first one is answered using personnel records from a large …
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Essays on Information Technologies, Social Networks and Individual Economic Outcomes
… affected by CEO decisions). Third, it increases mobility of CEOs, possibly because managing IT-intensive companies requires relatively more general skills. The third paper is the first to match, at the individual level, complete Call Detail Records data with individual income for over 100,000 …
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Three Essays in Labor Economics
… recent decades, focusing specifically on the mobility of young workers in terms of job and occupation transitions. Data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth (NLSY79 and NLSY97) indicate a marked increase in job mobility among young participants across different cohorts. Analysis of …
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Essays on Labor Market Institutions
… high predicted unemployment duration, and among job switchers hired out of unemployment. The insensitivity of wages to the nonemployment value presents a puzzle to the widely used Nash bargaining model, which predicts a sensitivity of $0.24--$0.48. Our evidence supports wage-setting models that …
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Social Networks and Individual Labor Market Outcomes - Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Panel Data
… ties on various labor market outcomes, such as job finding probabilities, wages, job stability, and upward mobility. Following recent trends in the measurement of network effects, the empirical work takes a relatively novel approach to quantify the economic benefits of social ties by utilizing a …