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Human capital transmission and the earnings of second-generation immigrants in Sweden
Hammarstedt, Mats; Palme, Mårten - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-23
We compare the earnings and the intergenerational earnings mobility of immigrants with natives in Sweden. We find an … overall convergence in average earnings between immigrants and natives across generations. This convergence hides a divergence …
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Chapter 23. Labor and Credit Networks in Developing Economies
Munshi, Kaivan - In: Handbook of social economics : volume 1, (pp. 1223-1254). 2011
The past decade has witnessed a surge of interest in the economic analysis of networks. This chapter is concerned with the role played by labor and credit networks in shaping economic activity in developing countries. The problem of identifying network effects on economic outcomes is first...
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Intergenerational earnings persistence and the provision of public goods : evidence from Chile's constitutional process
Cortes Orihuela, Javier; Díaz, Juan D.; Gutiérrez … - In: Journal of economic inequality 21 (2023) 1, pp. 47-81
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Doctors without Borders: The Returns to an Occupational License for Soviet Immigrant Physicians in Israel
Kugler, Adriana D.; Sauer, Robert M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
Re-licensing requirements for professionals that move across borders are widespread. In this Paper, we measure the returns to an occupational license using novel data on Soviet trained physicians that immigrated to Israel. An immigrant re-training assignment rule used by the Israel Ministry of...
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Chapter 22. The Labor Market Integration and Impacts of US Immigrants
Cadena, Brian C.; Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 1197-1259). 2015
inequality, and (2) growth in both the size and the diversity of immigration flows. Because a large share of new immigrants … American economy. In this chapter, we first place this concern in context by briefly describing the history of US immigration …, and the impact of immigration on the earnings and employment opportunities of native workers. We show that immigrants have …
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The Integration of Immigrants into the Labour Market : The Case of Sweden
Lemaître, Georges - 2007
The current situation regarding the integration of immigrants in the labour market in Sweden is the consequence of a number of factors and developments. The past fifteen years have seen a higher share of humanitarian migration in Sweden than in the past. This is a form of migration for which...
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School tracking and intergenerational social mobility : postponing school tracking can increase social mobility without significant adverse effects on educational achievement
Pekkarinen, Tuomas - 2014
The goal of school tracking (assigning students to different types of school by ability) is to increase educational efficiency by creating more homogeneous groups of students that are easier to teach. However, there are concerns that, if begun too early in the schooling process, tracking may...
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Determinants and perceptions of social mobility in Poland, 1992 - 2008
Sokołowska, Katarzyna - In: Contemporary economics 8 (2014) 1, pp. 89-102
The purpose of this article is to analyse the factors affecting social mobility in Poland, based on results obtained from the estimation of logit models for the years 1992 - 2008 as well as from interviews asking about the necessary conditions to achieve success in life. Data used in this work...
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Immigration, Jobs and Employment Protection: Evidence from Europe
Peri, Giovanni; D'Amuri, Francesco - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
distribution of natives with similar education and age. We find no evidence of the first but significant evidence of the second …: immigrants took "simple" (manual-routine) type of occupations and natives moved, in response, toward more "complex" (abstract …: immigration stimulated job creation, and the complexity of jobs offered to new native hires was higher relative to the complexity …
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Compliance with the Institutional Wage in Dualistic Models
Martins, Ana Paula - In: Journal of Economics and Econometrics 54 (2011) 2, pp. 93-126
This research extends simple two-sector models in order to inquire the impact of the extent of coverage or enforcement of minimum wage legislation in one of the sectors on the equilibrium outcome. Two versions of institutional wage avoidance are presented. They may be seen as representing...
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