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Assimilation of immigrants in Spain: A longitudinal analysis
Izquierdo, Mario; Lacuesta, Aitor; Vegas, Raquel - Banco de España - 2009
migrants from outside the EU-15 in Spain. Using our panel dataset we show that immigrants reduce around the half of the initial … associate the improvement in the skill of immigrants to a change in the composition of new entrants. An important mechanism … underlying the assimilation is the higher likelihood of recent immigrants in changing jobs among different sectors and firms, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004969778
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Ethnic Concentration and Human Capital Formation
Graaff, Thomas de; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Tinbergen Institute - 2004
Concentration of immigrants and its associated externalities have become an important topic in contemporary … externalities created by the influx of immigrants. Second, it presents a stylized model in which human capital accumulation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137380
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Emigration and human capital: who leaves, who comes back and what difference does it make?
Lacuesta, Aitor - Banco de España - 2006
This paper studies the loss of human capital that emigration generates in the country of origin. To that end I estimate the human capital distribution of emigrants had they not migrated. Unlike previous studies, I take into account the selection of migrants in terms of unobserved characteristics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005022278
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Returns for Entrepreneurs versus Employees: The Effect of Education and Personal Control on the Relative Performance of Entrepreneurs vis-à-vis Wage Employees
Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2009
How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples’ occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008513241
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Wage Dispersion in Russia
Grogan, L.A. - Tinbergen Institute - 1997
This paper examines the extent to which human capital theory can explain observed wage differentials in the Russian Federation. Wage and income dispersion have increased markedly in Russia in the six years since the transition began. Some studies conclude that this is an indicator that Russian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137056
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Measurement of labor quality growth caused by unobservable characteristics
Bolli, Thomas; Zurlinden, Mathias - Schweizerische Nationalbank (SNB) - 2009
The standard economy-wide indices of labor quality (or human capital) largely ignore the role of unobservable worker characteristics. In this paper, we develop a methodology for identifying the contributions of both observable and unobservable worker characteristics in the presence of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005000048
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Measuring growth of labour quality and the quality-adjusted unemployment rate in Switzerland
Bolli, Thomas; Zurlinden, Mathias - Schweizerische Nationalbank (SNB) - 2008
-2050 suggest that labour quality growth will slow down with time. We also calculate a quality-adjusted unemployment rate and find … that the unemployment rate is reduced by about 0.3 pp when human capital accumulation is taken into account. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005091297
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Measuring growth of labour quality and the quality-adjusted unemployment rate in Switzerland
Bolli, Thomas; Zurlinden, Mathias - Schweizerische Nationalbank (SNB) - 2008
-2050 suggest that labour quality growth will slow down with time. We also calculate a quality-adjusted unemployment rate and find … that the unemployment rate is reduced by about 0.3 pp when human capital accumulation is taken into account. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008924999
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Measurement of labor quality growth caused by unobservable characteristics
Bolli, Thomas; Zurlinden, Mathias - Schweizerische Nationalbank (SNB) - 2009
The standard economy-wide indices of labor quality (or human capital) largely ignore the role of unobservable worker characteristics. In this paper, we develop a methodology for identifying the contributions of both observable and unobservable worker characteristics in the presence of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008925027