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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Wage Growth"”.
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Wage Growth and Worker Observability
… this paper is to provide a thorough analysis of wage growth and a firm\'s ability to observe its workers\' productivity.<br /><br />I regress a Mincerian wage equation using data from the March 2009 Supplement of the Consumer Population Survey merged with additional industry data gathered from …
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Factors influencing the job success of women college graduates
… was defined in terms of performance evaluations, wage growth, and promotion rate models. The relative success of graduates of women's colleges were compared to graduates of coeducational institutions. Ordinary Least Squares analysis was used to evaluate the data. Empirical results indicate that …
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Job Mobility and Measurement Error
… that examines the impact of job mobility on wage growth. It finds that by controlling for measurement error in job changes, the effect of job mobility on wage growth is larger than prevailing estimates suggest.
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Essays on career mobility in the UK labour market
… instances of career change are associated with wage growth. During an expansion, a career changer's wage grows more than someone who stays in their career. However, this does not apply if the career changer was unemployed and then hired during a recession. The evidence suggests that career …
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Essays on imperfect competition in the labor market
… the relationship between an individual's wages and the quality of her opportunities at other firms (her outside options). To overcome the fact that many factors that shift an individual's outside opportunities also impact her productivity at her current job, we develop a novel …
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Essays on the effects of human capital, innovation and technology on economic performance
… performance by inflation adjusted economic growth, employment growth, and wage growth. All economic performance, HC, and creative class data are drawn from the Sample of Integrated Labor Market Biographies (SIAB 1975–2008) and from the Federal Statistical Office of Germany which cover the …
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Essays in Empirical Labour Economics
… of differences in firm pay policy to the gender wage gap in Italy, decomposing them into a between-firm component of sorting of women in low-pay firms and a within-firm component related to differences in bargaining power between gender. Building on Card et al. (2016), we investigate the …
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A review of the housing market in Beirut between 2005 and 2019
… real estate market are explored, including slow wage growth that has prevented homeowners from keeping up with housing prices, massive public debt that has paralyzed subsidization programs, and a high cost of debt that has made it difficult and unattractive to finance both new construction and …
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Vartojimo kredito dinamika ir analizė Lietuvoje /
… to conduct an empirical study to evaluate the growth of the consumer credit market in relation macroeconomic factors in Lithuania. The work consists of three main parts: the analysis of literature, the research and its results, conclusion and recommendations. The literaure rewiew analyzes the …
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Over-education in the Labour Market: Evidence from Australia
… the perspective of both occupation moblity and wage growth, and also whether over-education is temporary or persistent.
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Acquiring Expertise and Societal Productivity in a World of Artificial Intelligence
… significantly affect immediate post-promotion wages, it negatively impacts wages one and two years after promotion, suggesting potential wage stagnation or reduction. Additionally, technological influx initially increases promotion likelihood and stabilizes employee retention, though …
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Three Essays on Social Networks in Labor Markets
… formal market. This model predicts lower initial wages and greater wage growth after migration for migrants without contacts. I then use data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY) to examine whether migrants who used social connections when finding their first job assimilate faster …
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Essays on human capital heterogeneity and agglomeration
… capital stock characteristics on individual wages. In essay one, we posit that some kinds of knowledge are harder to exchange remotely and thus workers possessing those knowledge types benefit more from close physical proximity to others. Our theoretical framework demonstrates the returns to …
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The Changing Structure of Inequality in Canada: A Multi-Level Analysis of Licensing and Education Effects on Wages Within and Across Occupations
… licensing has thus contributed to increasing wage inequality. Using Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey and a database of occupational regulations collected from public data sources, I explore the wage effects of licensing and it interacts with other occupational characteristics. This …
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Employment Effects of Corporate Takeovers
… shareholder gains do not explain job losses and wage cuts, although there is some evidence of rent expropriation after hostile and cash-paid acquisitions. In contrast, there is a strong positive association between acquirers’ long-run abnormal returns and post-merger employee wealth concessions. …
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Essays on the economics of labor markets
… the extent to which geographic variation in wage growth reflects workers' incomplete arbitrage of changing job opportunities in different locations, industries, and occupations. Without moving costs, worker adjustment to changes in labor demand would eliminate differential earnings effects …
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The organizational consequences of democracy : labor unions and economic reforms in contemporary Italy
… ideology.Their goal was not just improving the wages and working conditions of the Italian workers but rather promoting a "social revolution" in the country. During the 1970s and 1980s, the behavior of these unions proved to be incompatible with the long-term stability of an open, capitalist …
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Hiring, recessions, and careers : three essays in personnel economics
Workers find wage-growth and job-satisfaction by building careers. However a worker's ability to string together a sequence of jobs relies on the availability of appropriate opportunities either within their current firm or in other firms in the market. In this thesis, I investigate how variation …
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Wage Dispersion Between College Majors
… educated workforce that has been integral to the growth in productivity and innovation in various industries. The education system, which was built to be largely public and egalitarian, allowed individuals of every background to reach their productive potential. Human capital development theorists …
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Essays on Employment and Human Capital
… jobs, which are an important source of wage growth for most young workers. By comparing workers around job-to-job transitions, I show that differences in average firm promotion rates reflect persistent differences in the effects of firms on workers. Workers who move to a high promotion …
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