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Wages and Employment in a Random Social Network with Arbitrary Degree Distribution

Ioannides, Yannis M.; Soetevent, Adriaan R. - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

otherwise identical workers result in wage inequality and differences in unemployment rates. The paper is related to theoretical … wage on average and face a lower unemployment rate. Numerical computations for the specific case in which connections …

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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 …

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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 …

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Wage inequality, segregation by skill and the price of capital in an assignment model

Gavilán, Ángel - Banco de España - 2006

Some pieces of empirical evidence suggest that in the U.S., over the last few decades, (i) wage inequality between-plants has risen much more than wage inequality within-plants and (ii) there has been an increase in the segregation of workers by skill into separate plants. This paper presents a...

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Unobserved Heterogeneity and Risk in Wage Variance: Does Schooling provide Earnings Insurance?

Mazza, Jacopo; Ophem, Hans van; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education. We replicate the original study on US men and extend to US women, UK men and German men. Most original results are not robust. A college education cannot universally be considered an...

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On the job search in a matching model with heterogeneous jobs and workers

Dolado, Juan J.; Jansen, Marcel; Jimeno, Juan F. - Banco de España - 2008

potential equilibria, the unemployment rates of the different types of workers, the degree of wage inequality, and the response …

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