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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Wage premium"”.
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TRADE POLICY AND THE LABOR MARKET: EVIDENCE FROM KOREA
… country on labor market outcomes, and the export wage premium. The first chapter studies the impact of trade liberalization in China on the firm-level skilled labor employment share in Korea. The second chapter examines the existence of the export wage premium. The third chapter explores the …
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Firm-size and wages: a case study of the manufacturing sector in Zimbabwe
… that workers in large firms earn higher wages than those in smaller firms. This phenomenon is recognised as an important puzzle that explains wage disparities in labour markets. This thesis analyses the link between firm size and wages in the Zimbabwean manufacturing sector and it is …
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Early employees of venture-backed startups : selection and wage differentials
… ("early employees"). This paper explores the wage differential between venture capital-backed startups and established firms given that the two firm types compete for talent. Using data on graduating college students from MIT, I find that VC-backed startups on average pay 8%-13% higher wages …
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Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics
… I examine whether or not there exists any wage premium for or against college graduate immigrants who are on work visa compared to college graduate natives. I also check for any change of such a premium from 2003 to 2010. On the contrary to the common belief that foreign workers are cheap …
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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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Essays on the Importance of Gender, Sectoral Assignment and Post-Migration Education for Earnings Dynamics
… Dynamics (SLID) to explore public-private sector wage differentials in Canada in the period from 1993 to 2010. I find strong evidence for the existence of a public sector wage premium and show that controlling for union coverage or firm size can reduce the estimated public sector wage premium. …
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Essays on Empirical Labor Economics
… one investigates the effect of firm size on wages using quantile regression. Empirical evidence shows that larger firms pay higher wages than smaller ones. This wage premium is called the firm size wage effect. In this study, I use the quantile regression approach to investigate the firm size …
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Three Papers in Labor Mobility and Human Capital Accumulation
… attempts to explain the increase in skill premium in Argentina. Capital accumulation can modify the relative productivity between skilled and unskilled workers, leading to changes in the wage structure. In particular, if capital goods are relatively more complementary to skilled workers, a …
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Essays in Public Education
… education spending of changes in the college wage premium, and (5) the overall efficiency of government-supplied capital. Chapter 2 develops a public education system in which voters face general equilibrium incentives to pay taxes for education. Middle-aged voters can increase their returns …
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Three Essays on Labor and Personality
… we are trying to estimate the labor market wage premium for shift workers. We use an equilibrium sorting framework to model location decisions around the clock. Using the estimated model we try to disentangle the amenity value of daylight from social interaction effects.
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Wage Dispersion Between College Majors
… in the individual which lead to higher wages. A degree can also serve as a signaling mechanism to employers, which suggests that an individual may possess specific skills. Higher skills acquired through a college education are compensated with higher wages called the "college wage …
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The Economics of American Higher Education
… a college degree, which continues to command a wage premium in the job market. Using a literature review methodology to examine the body of material that is available on this topic, a synthesis of current thought was created. This examination included a review of Moody’s Investors Service credit …
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Determinants of earnings in Eritea : a first attempt to estimate the Mincerian earnings function
… Ex-fighters enjoy some form of special wage premium in view of the importance of their pre-independence history and this party premium is substantially higher in the public sector than in the private sector. There is also a peak level of experience that positively affects earnings. The …
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Three Essays on the Macroeconomics of Information
… of information. The first chapter, "The Skill Premium, College Enrollment and Education Signals" explores the quantitative implications of a signaling model of education for the evolution of the skill premium for young workers in the US since the 1970s. I formalize the idea that as college …
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Determinants of CEO remuneration, for JSE listed financial service organisations
… a CEOs remuneration. As such, the quantum of the wage premium paid to CEOs, relative to employees at all other levels, has been a contentious topic that has been discussed for decades, with research on the topic dating back to the 1980s. In the late 2000s, the topic resurfaced in the media, after …
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Unionization at Justice Canada: A Case Study
… chapter describes how redressing an exclusive wage premium known as the “Toronto differential” helped LOAC generate employee support for forming the AJC as a professional association, and, later, campaigning for union recognition under the PSLRA. Chapter 6 presents the AJC’s negotiation and …
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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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Studies of labour markets in countries in transition in South East Europe
… Surveys (2001-2005), I find that the gender wage gap is still very low in Serbia, and is even decreasing during this period. However, decompositions that apply the Oaxaca (1974) methodology reveal that the unexplained component of the gap is very large, and is increasing. Likewise, quantile …
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Movement of heterogeneous goods and people.
… the weighted correlation to 0.77. After tax wages differ considerably across countries, providing strong economic incentives for individuals to migrate. Increasing political integration and regional trade agreements facilitate international labor mobility, making these economic motives more …
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An Analysis Of Shift Work: Compensating Differentials And Local Economic Conditions
… as night shift work, should receive compensating wage differentials. The theory assumes that workers can easily find jobs with desirable characteristics; thus, compensating wages are necessary to induce workers to take jobs with undesirable characteristics. This dissertation considers a variation …
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