Differences in Wage Growth by Education Level: Do Less-Educated Workers Gain Less from Work Experience?
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- Helen Connolly & Peter Gottschalk, 2000. "Differences in Wage Growth by Education Level: Do Less Educated Workers Gain Less from Work Experience?," Boston College Working Papers in Economics 473, Boston College Department of Economics, revised 26 Aug 2006.
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Keywords
low wage workers; returns to tenure; sector experience; general experience; job match;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J30 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2006-10-28 (Education)
- NEP-HRM-2006-10-28 (Human Capital & Human Resource Management)
- NEP-LAB-2006-10-28 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-LTV-2006-10-28 (Unemployment, Inequality & Poverty)
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