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Do Double Majors Face Less Risk? : An Analysis of Human Capital Diversification
Hanks, Andrew S.; Jiang, Shengjun; Qian, Xuechao; Wang, Bo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study how human capital diversification, in the form of double majoring, affects the response of earnings to labor market shocks. Double majors experience substantial protection against earnings shocks, of 56%. This finding holds across different model specifications and data sets....
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Inmigración y cuidados de mayores en la Comunidad de Madrid
 … - Fundación BBVA
La presente monografía muestra una mirada sobre los cuidados de las personas mayores ofrecidos por cuidadoras inmigrantes en el ámbito familiar en Madrid, en un mercado informal. A ello se llega a través de los discursos proporcionados por los actores que intervienen en ese proceso, las...
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Rejuvenating Greece's labour market to generate more and higher-quality jobs
Bulman, Tim - 2020
Greece’s labour market entered the COVID-19 shock following several years of sustained employment growth and with wages … picking up. Unemployment remained high and employment rates were low, especially among women, the young and older workers. The … informality. This heightens insecurity – by excluding many workers from activation policies or social and employment protection …
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Chapter 6 Educational Wage Premiums and the U.S. Income Distribution: A Survey
Deere, Donald R.; Vesovic, Jelena - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 1, (pp. 255-306). 2006
This chapter discusses the large literature and numerous issues regarding education-related differences in income in the U.S. Early analyses of skill-related differences compared the earnings of workers across occupations. The general consensus of these investigations was that skill premiums...
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Effects of Childhood Cognitive and Behavioral Disabilities on Adult Economic Outcomes
Corman, Hope; Noonan, Kelly; Reichman, Nancy E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
, employment, wages, and access to transportation and credit in adulthood, using household fixed effects models to control for …
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Firms’ main market, human capital, and wages
Alcalá Agulló, Francisco; Hernández, Pedro J. - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 1 (2010) 4, pp. 433-458
The literature on the exporter wage premium has focused on an exporter/non-exporter dichotomy. Instead, this paper provides first evidence that there is a more continuous destination-market effect. Using Spanish data, we estimate wage premia for establishments selling to the national, European...
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Toward an Understanding of the Returns to Cognitive Skills Across Cohorts
Hellerstein, Judith K.; Luo, Sai; Urzua, Sergio - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Recent research concludes that wage returns to cognitive skills have declined in the U.S. We reassess this finding. Using decomposition methods, we document the pivotal role played by dynamic shifts in the distributions of pre-labor market cognitive skills. Our findings show these shifts explain...
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Innovation Booms, Easy Financing, and Human Capital Accumulation
Hombert, Johan; Matray, Adrien - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Innovation booms are often fueled by easy financing that allows new technology firms to pay high wages that attracts skilled labor. Using the late 1990s Information and Communication Technology (ICT) boom as a laboratory, we show that skilled labor joining this new sector experienced sizeable...
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The impact of immigration on native wages and employment
Edo, Anthony - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 15 (2015) 3, pp. 1151-1196
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Labour markets in EMU : what has changed and what needs to change
Bertola, Giuseppe - 2008
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