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Gender Differences in Negotiations and Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from an Information Intervention with College Students
Cortés, Patricia; French, Jacob; Pan, Jessica; Zafar, Basit - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
randomized information experiment on the 2018 to 2020 graduating cohorts of undergraduate business majors from Boston University …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486245
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Do Elite Universities Overpay Their Faculty?
Garro-Marin, Cesar Luis; Kahn, Shulamit Beth; Lang, Kevin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015072946
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Marginal Returns to Public Universities
Mountjoy, Jack - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
American public university students, to systematically identify and employ decentralized cutoffs in SAT/ACT scores that …
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Why Do Wages Grow Faster for Educated Workers?
Deming, David J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The U.S. college wage premium doubles over the life cycle, from 27 percent at age 25 to 60 percent at age 55. Using a … panel survey of workers followed through age 60, I show that growth in the college wage premium is primarily explained by … occupational sorting. Shortly after graduating, workers with college degrees shift into professional, nonroutine occupations with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322761
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The earnings of immigrants and the quality adjustment of immigrant human capital
Sharaf, Mesbah - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-18
The quality dimension of immigrant human capital has received little attention in the economic assimilation literature. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how human capital acquired in different source countries may be adjusted according to its quality in the Canadian labor market....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786216
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How self-sorting affects migrants’ labour market outcomes
Pareliussen, Jon Kristian - 2017
Assuming that immigrants select destinations according to absolute returns to their observable and unobservable human capital, I present a human capital model of migration accounting for taxes, transfers and limited portability of skills. The model predicts both segmented sorting of migrants to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011823625
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Gender differences in earnings and labor supply in early career : evidence from Kosovo’s school-to-work transition survey
Pastore, Francesco; Sattar, Sarosh; Tiongson, Erwin R. - In: IZA journal of labor & development 2 (2013), pp. 1-34
Very little is known about gender wage disparities in Kosovo and, to date, nothing is known about how such wage disparities evolve over time, particularly during the first few years spent by young workers in the labor market. More generally, not much is known about gender wage gaps in early...
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Overcoming skills shortages in Canada
Carey, David - 2014
Skills shortages have developed in certain fields and regions in recent years. Earnings premiums for people in some professions, notably health, engineering and skilled trades have increased. And vacancy rates have risen for skilled trades, with the increase being particularly large in Alberta...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464990
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Combler les pénuries de compétences au Canada
Carey, David - 2014
Les pénuries de compétences ont progressé dans certains secteurs et régions au cours des dernières années. L’avantage salarial s’accroît dans certaines professions, notamment la santé, l’ingénierie et les métiers spécialisés. Et les taux de postes vacants augmentent également...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012454355
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Gender differences in earnings and labor supply in early career: evidence from Kosovo’s school-to-work transition survey
Pastore, Francesco; Sattar, Sarosh; Tiongson, Erwin - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2 (2013) 1, pp. 1-34
I21, J13, J15, J16, J24, J31, J7, P30 </AbstractSection> Copyright Pastore et al.; licensee Springer. 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011001816