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Do high-skilled immigrants find jobs faster than low-skilled immigrants? : conference paper

Hochfellner, Daniela; Wapler, Rüdiger - 2014 - Preliminary version: 27th February 2014

This paper investigates the role that pre-immigration skills play in immigrants job-finding processes in Germany. We …

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Immigrant heterogeneity and the earnings distribution in the United Kingdom and United States : new evidence from a panel data quantile regression analysis

Billger, Sherrilyn M.; Lamarche, Carlos - 2010

differential. For instance, a large wage penalty occurs in the U.S. among female immigrants from non-English speaking countries … individual heterogeneity in better understanding immigrant wage effects. -- immigrants ; earnings ; quantile regression ; panel …

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Born abroad and educated here : examining the impacts of education and skill mismatch among immigrant graduates in Europe

McGuinness, Séamus; Byrne, Delma - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-30

This paper examines the wage and job satisfaction effects of over-education and overskilling among migrants graduating from EU-15 based universities in 2005. Female migrants with shorter durations of domicile were found to have a higher likelihood of overskilling. Newly arrived migrants incurred...

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Occupational Gender Composition and Wages in Sweden

Hansen, Jorgen; Wahlberg, Roger - 2021

We estimate the relationship between wages and occupational gender segregation in Sweden. Because of high wage equality in Sweden compared to the U.S., we expect a lower wage penalty of job femaleness in Sweden than in the U.S. Our results supports this hypothesis. We also investigate how the...

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Discriminate me - if you can! : the disappearance of the gender pay gap among public-contest selected employees

Castagnetti, Carolina; Rosti, Luisa; Töpfer, Marina - 2018

This paper analyzes the effect of public-contest recruitment on earnings for men and women using Italian microdata over a time period of ten years. We find that the gender pay gap vanishes and even reverses among the young, when employees are selected through public contests. The results suggest...

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Bias and discrimination: what do we know?

Della Giusta, Marina; Bosworth, Steven - 2020

The paper presents the economic literature on gender bias, illustrating the underpinnings in the psychology of bias and stereotyping; the incorporation of these insights into current theoretical and empirical research in economics, and the literature on methods to contrast bias presenting...

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Unequal pay or unequal employment? : what drives the self-selection of internal migrants in Germany?

Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry; Lehmer, Florian - 2011 - Preliminary Version: March 3, 2011

This paper examines the determinants of internal migration in a context where wages tend to be rather inflexible at a regional scale so that regional labor demand shocks have a prolonged impact on employment rates. Regional income differentials, then, reflect both regional pay and employment...

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Job mobility as a new explanation for the immigrant-native wage gap : a longitudinal analysis for the German labor market

Brenzel, Hanna; Reichelt, Malte - 2015

job mobility of migrants and natives in Germany and distinguish among voluntary, involuntary, internal and other job …Theoretisch lassen sich Lohnunterschiede zwischen Migranten und Einheimischen mithilfe der Humankapitaltheorie erklären … Berücksichtigung von Humankapital-Variablen meist ein unerklärter Lohnunterschied zwischen Migranten und Einheimischen. Wir benutzen …

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Migration and the Wage Curve : A Structural Approach to Measure the Wage and Employment Effects of Migration

Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J. - 2021

the assumption that wages respond to a change in the unemployment rate, albeit imperfectly. This allows one to derive the … through immigration increases the aggregate unemployment rate by less than 0.1 percentage points and reduces average wages by … less 0.1 percent. While native workers benefit from increased wages and lower unemployment, foreign workers are adversely …

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ORU analyses of immigrant earnings in Australia, with international comparisons

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

international transferability of immigrants' human capital, and undereducation to favorable selection in immigration. Comparisons …. The sensitivity of the results of the decomposition to several measurement issues is assessed. -- Immigrants ; schooling …

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