Returns to experience across tasks: evidence from Brazil

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (20) ◽  
pp. 1718-1723 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gustavo Gonzaga ◽  
Tomás Guanziroli
Keyword(s):  
Returns To Experience

scholarly journals On-Demand Digital Economy: Can Experience Ensure Work and Income Security for Microtask Workers?

2019 ◽  
Vol 239 (3) ◽  
pp. 565-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uma Rani ◽  
Marianne Furrer
Keyword(s):  
Social Protection ◽  
Skill Development ◽  
Work Intensity ◽  
Income Security ◽  
Challenging Tasks ◽  
Education Levels ◽  
Returns To Experience ◽  
And Control ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract Digital labour platforms have been increasingly gaining popularity over the past decade. In particular, there has been much debate about workers’ motivations and working conditions on microtask platforms. There exists little evidence on whether dependence on digital microtask platforms provides workers with work and income security in the long term and whether it provides opportunities for skill development. This paper explores the extent to which the seemingly flexible platform work ensures work and income security and provides opportunities for skill development for workers with different levels of experience, based on novel survey data collected on five globally operating microtask platforms and in-depth interviews with workers. The findings show that despite high financial dependence on this work, returns to experience on the platform are meagre in terms of earnings, and highly experienced workers face the same risks as new entrants with regard to discrimination, high work intensity, lack of autonomy and control over work, and social protection. There is also a skills gap between the nature of tasks available on these microtask platforms and the workers’ education levels. Finally, experience does not ensure that workers have the opportunities to undertake complex and challenging tasks, and the possibilities to develop their skills and improve career prospects are limited.

scholarly journals Tenure, Turnover, And Earnings Profiles In Germany And The United States

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth A. Couch
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
The United States ◽  
Job Turnover ◽  
Income Dynamics ◽  
Employment Tenure ◽  
Returns To Experience ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Male Workers

Employment tenure, job turnover and returns to general and specific skills are examined for male workers in Germany and the United States using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics.  Employment in Germany is characterized by longer duration and less frequent turnover than in the United States.  Returns to experience and tenure are lower in Germany than in the U.S.; however, peak earnings occur later.  This delayed peak in the employment-earnings profile provides an incentive for German workers to remain longer with their employers and change jobs less frequently.

scholarly journals Why Does Trend Growth Affect Equilibrium Employment? A New Explanation of an Old Puzzle

2012 ◽  
Vol 102 (4) ◽  
pp. 1378-1413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael W. L Elsby ◽  
Matthew D Shapiro
Keyword(s):  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Wage Growth ◽  
Employment Rate ◽  
Combined Effects ◽  
Reservation Wages ◽  
Returns To Experience ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Trend Growth

That the employment rate appears to respond to changes in trend growth is an enduring macroeconomic puzzle. This paper shows that, in the presence of a return to experience, a slowdown in productivity growth raises reservation wages, thereby lowering aggregate employment. The paper develops new evidence that shows this mechanism is important for explaining the growth-employment puzzle. The combined effects of changes in aggregate wage growth and returns to experience account for all the increase from 1968 to 2006 in nonemployment among low-skilled men and for approximately half the increase in nonemployment among all men. (JEL E24, J24, J31)

scholarly journals Markets for Communist Human Capital: Returns to Education and Experience in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

ILR Review ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 401-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert S. Chase
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Secondary Education ◽  
Returns To Education ◽  
The Other ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Micro Data ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Structure Changes ◽  
Returns To Experience

This research examines how the earnings structure in the Czech Republic and Slovakia changed after the collapse of those countries' Communist governments. Tests of four similar micro-data sets show that returns to education rose significantly with the transition to non-Communist governments. For example, returns to education rose from 2.4% to 5.2% for Czech men between 1984 and 1993. Though women had, in general, higher returns to education than men did, returns for men increased more with the regime change. Among both sexes, those with academic secondary education experienced particularly large earnings increases. Returns to experience, on the other hand, fell. Earnings structure changes appear to have been larger in the Czech Republic than in Slovakia, probably because transition occurred more rapidly and deeply in the former.

The Earnings of Skilled and Unskilled Immigrants at the End of the Nineteenth Century

1986 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 441-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry Eichengreen ◽  
Henry A. Gemery
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Prior Knowledge ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Nineteenth Century America ◽  
Returns To Experience ◽  
Relative Earnings ◽  
Wage Earners

Most historical studies of immigration in nineteenth-century America have failed to distinguish among the labor-market experiences of different immigrant groups. Using a sample of some 4000 wage earners from turn-of-the-century Iowa, we examine the relative earnings of skilled and unskilled immigrants and suggest the factors which contributed to their very different post-immigration experiences. The results indicate that prior knowledge of a trade conferred upon immigrants an initial earnings advantage, but that unskilled immigrants managed subsequently to close some but not all of the gap by reaping greater returns to experience on the job.

scholarly journals Part-Time Work, Fixed-Term Contracts, and the Returns to Experience

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Fernandez-Kranz ◽  
Marie Paul ◽  
Nuria Rodriguez-Planas
Keyword(s):  
Time Work ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Returns To Experience ◽  
Part Time Work
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