...Caroline Krafft; Ragui Assaad Purpose This paper aims to investigate the wage-productivity relationship at the firm level in Egypt. It quantifies the relative role of factors related to the use of efficiency wages (paying higher than market wages to improve worker quality, effort and retention...

...Mina Sami Purpose This study examines the effect of digital skills on wages and employment in Egypt, with particular focus on gender differences. Design/methodology/approach The study uses the 2023 wave of the Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey (ELMPS). Our empirical methodology uses several...

...Roberto Dopeso-Fernández; Aleksander Kucel; Montserrat Vilalta-Bufí Purpose This paper studies early labor market effects of doing a PhD fully in Spain, partially abroad or fully abroad for a sample of recent young Spanish doctorate graduates. We check their pecuniary (wage) and non-pecuniary...

..., these tend to be for lower-paid jobs compared to those received by cisgender women (by 20%) and cisgender men (by 21.3%). This wage sorting into lower-paid vacancies suggests a penalty in terms of lower returns on education, which could drive wage and income differences. Practical implications...

... and the increase in the number of CBWs after it. To analyze how workers adjust to immigration, we use individual workers’ panel data from 2000 through 2009 from the Swiss Labor Force Survey matched with register data. We focus on two outcomes for middle-skilled native workers: employment probability and wages...

...Daniela Rohrbach-Schmidt; Caroline Wehner; Sabine Krueger; Christian Ebner Purpose This article aims to examine whether specific job tasks measured at the individual level or personality traits are associated with wages and whether the relationship between personality traits and wages differs...

...Begona Eguia; Carlos Rodriguez Gonzalez; Felipe Serrano Purpose The authors’ goal in this paper is to study if there are long-run effects on the wages of those workers who entered the labour market overeducated but who have, over time, been able to overcome this situation by obtaining a job...

...Giuseppe Lucio Gaeta; Giuseppe Lubrano Lavadera; Francesco Pastore Purpose The wage effect of job–education vertical mismatch (i.e. overeducation) has only recently been investigated in the case of Ph.D. holders. The existing contributions rely on ordinary least squares (OLS) estimates that allow...

...Jacek Liwiński Purpose This paper tries to identify the wage gap between informal and formal workers and tests for the two-tier structure of the informal labour market in Poland. Design/methodology/approach The author employs the propensity score matching (PSM) technique and use data from...

...Naouel Ben Jemaa Cherif Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of training on labor productivity and wages in order to examine how the benefits from training are shared between employers and employees. Design/methodology/approach This study analyzes an industry panel...

... effects on wages, employment, and productivity in China. The relationships between unionization and these three economic variables are first tested at the national level and then examined in the eastern, central, and western regions, respectively. Provincial-level panel data from 1994 to 2014...

...Laura Caron Purpose The purpose of this paper is to quantify the labor market outcomes of people with disabilities (PwD) in Indonesia and compares them to people without disabilities. It first studies the labor force participation of PwD before examining the large and persistent wage gaps...

..., it investigates the effect of the education-job mismatch on the wages of youth in Kyrgyzstan. Design/methodology/approach The study uses the International Labor Organization 2013 data from the school-to-work transition survey for Kyrgyzstan. The Kaplan–Meier failure analysis is employed to demonstrate...

... European countries analysed those from Poland enjoy the highest wage premium from studying abroad. We use data from the nationwide tracer survey of Polish graduates (Graduate Tracer Study 2007) and regress the hourly net wage rate of salaried workers in their first job after graduating from an HEI...

...-bourgogne.fr 19 01 2017 13 10 2017 02 03 2018 13 03 2018 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only France Quantile regression Wages Post-secondary graduates Soft-skills Although young graduates in France...

...Marjan Petreski Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate if public provision of employment support services to youth leads to reduced informality and increased wages in transition economies. Design/methodology/approach The author uses the school-to-work transition data sets...

..., as compared to those exhibiting feminine personality traits. Moreover, women with masculine personality traits take up positions which offer 10 percentage points higher wages, in comparison with those displaying feminine personality traits. Furthermore, wage premiums are higher for those exhibiting masculine...

...Nick Drydakis Purpose Economic pluralism proposes that economists and social planners should consider alternative theories to establish a range of policy actions. Neoclassical, Feminist and Marxian theories evaluate well-grounded causes of wage discrimination. However, a reluctance to consider...

... of educational mismatch among workers. Moroever, different versions of the Duncan and Hoffman wage equation are estimated depending on whether basic or alternative measures of educational mismatch are included. Findings – The empirical analyses provide the following results: first, at least two-third...

...Jozef Konings, François Rycx and Vincent Vandenberghe; Andrea Garnero; Romina Giuliano; Benoit Mahy; François Rycx Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to estimate the impact of fixed-term contracts (FTCs) on labour productivity, wages (i.e. labour cost), and productivity-wage gaps (i.e...