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Overeducation and Ethnic Minorities in Britain
Battu, Harminder; Sloane, Peter J. - 2021
This study examines the utilisation of education across ethnic minorities in the UK. In particular, we examine the incidence of mismatch between educational qualifications and occupational attainment, the determinants of any mismatch and the consequences for earnings and other labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320171
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Overeducation and ethnic minorities in Britain
Battu, Harminder; Sloane, Peter J. - 2002
This study examines the utilisation of education across ethnic minorities in the UK. In particular, we examine the incidence of mismatch between educational qualifications and occupational attainment, the determinants of any mismatch and the consequences for earnings and other labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415198
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Overeducation and ethnic minorities in Britain
Battu, Harminder - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013268920
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Offshoring and Labor Markets
Hummels, David L. - 2016
In this paper we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage, employment and displacement. We start with an overview of the measurement of offshoring, organizing our discussion around the three key elements of offshoring: that it involves intermediate inputs for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997459
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Identifying Agglomeration Spillovers : Evidence from Million Dollar Plants
Greenstone, Michael; Hornbeck, Richard; Moretti, Enrico - 2010
We quantify agglomeration spillovers by estimating the impact of the opening of a large manufacturing plant on the … total factor productivity (TFP) of incumbent plants in the same county. We use the location rankings of profit … counties. This indicates that the ultimate effect on profits is smaller than the direct increase in productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014221441
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Wages, Sorting on Skill, and the Racial Composition of Jobs
Hirsch, Barry T.; MacPherson, David A. - 2021
Wages for black and white workers are substantially lower in occupations with a high density of black employees … equations, the magnitude of the correlation falls sharply after controlling for occupational skills. Longitudinal estimates … support a "quality sorting" explanation, with racial density serving as an index of unmeasured skills. Although past …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320816
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How the Human Capital Model Explains Why the Gender Wage Gap Narrowed
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2021
female wages rose almost unabated from 1890 to the early-1990s in the United States (with the exception of about 1940 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319372
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The timing of careers and human capital depreciation
Kunze, Astrid - 2002
This paper explores the short and long run effects of career interruptions on wages for young skilled workers in West …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411654
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Earnings Over the Life Cycle : The Mincer Earnings Function and its Applications
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2021
In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings are distributed across the population. In the years since Mincer's seminal work, he as well as his students and colleagues extended the original human capital model, reaching important conclusions about a whole array...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316685
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Micro foundations of earnings differences
Das, Tirthatanmoy; Polachek, Solomon W. - 2017
knowledge are most influential in explaining earnings variations. Marketable skills actually acquired in school depend on these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011709811