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vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher … wages. In some countries where labour markets are characterized by employment growth, skill shortages and a good match … case in point. Little attention has been given to examining the success of vocational education in raising the wages of …
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Germany has experienced a substantial influx of German immigrants from Eastern Europe after World War II and expects several million more as a consequence of the demise of socialism. This paper analyses the economic performance of ethnic German migrants to West Germany in comparison with native...
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appears that there is more than one way to do it. The proposed methodology is applied to the analysis of wages of …
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Switzerland has experienced a substantial influx of immigrants over the 50 years since World War II, to the extent that it now has one of the highest share of foreigners in population among OECD countries. This paper analyses Switzerland’s experience of migration, centring on two main issues:...
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Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new …
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Using micro data on women in the Czech Republic, we compare returns to various measures of human capital at the end of communism (1989), in mid-transition (1996) and in late/post-transition (2002). We show: dramatic increases in returns to education from 1989 to 1996 but no change from 1996 to 2002;...
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-economic background. We use this exogenous variation in the demand for education to estimate the effect of education on wages as well as …
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The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997--2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of low-skill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labour market outcomes. This is...
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We use a quantile regression framework to investigate the degree to which work-related training affects the location, scale and shape of the conditional wage distribution. Human capital theory suggests that the percentage returns to training investments will be the same across the conditional...
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arrival, wages of highly skilled immigrants grow at 8.13% a year. Rising prices of skills, occupational transitions …, accumulated experience in Israel, economy-wide rise in wages and repeated sampling account for 4.3, 3.1, 1.6, 1.2 and 2% each …. There is convergence to natives in the occupational distribution, but not in wages. In the long run, the return for …
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