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The Impact of Immigration on the Structure of Wages: Theory and Evidence from Britain
Manacorda, Marco; Manning, Alan; Wadsworth, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
the wages of native-born workers in the UK. This is potentially puzzling since there is evidence that changes in the … supply of educated natives have significant effects on their wages. Using a pooled time series of British crosssectional … micro data on male wages and employment from the mid-1970s to the mid-2000s, this paper offers a resolution to this puzzle …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008527530
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The Aggregate Labour Market Effects of the Swedish Knowledge Lift Program
Albrecht, James; den Berg, Gerard J van; Vroman, Susan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123553
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Does Speed Signal Ability? The Impact of Grade Repetitions on Employment and Wages
Brodaty, Thomas; Gary-Bobo, Robert J.; Prieto, Ana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
which log-wages are explained by two endogenous variables: the student's degree and the student's time to degree, not simply … by years of education. Log-wages are regressed on a measure of education, which is a position on a scale of certificates … parameters. We find a robust, significant and negative impact of the delay variable on wages, averaged over the first five years …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005498114
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Central and East European Labour Markets in Transition: Developments, Causes, and Cures
Franz, Wolfgang - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995
The main questions addressed in this paper are: First, how did labour markets in the Visegrad countries react to the breakdown of a command economy and the transformation to a market economy? Second, which way ahead is likely, or to put it differently, what should be done now to improve...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005067622
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High Skilled Migration and the Exertion of Effort by the Local Population
Epstein, Gil S; Kunze, Astrid; Ward-Warmedinger, Melanie - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
The design of optimal immigration policy, particularly in the face of the spiraling demand for highly skilled workers, such as IT workers and engineers, is a topical issue in the policy debate as well as the economic literature. In this paper, we present empirical evidence from firm-level data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666778
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Learning to Take Risks? The Effect of Education on Risk-Taking in Financial Markets
Black, Sandra; Devereux, Paul J.; Lundborg, Petter; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
We investigate whether acquiring more education when young has long-term effects on risk-taking behavior in financial markets and whether the effects spill over to spouses and children. There is substantial evidence that more educated people are more likely to invest in the stock market....
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Returns to Education across Europe
Glocker, Daniela; Steiner, Viktor - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
accounting for the effects of unemployment on individual wages using EU-SILC data. Across countries we find a high variation of … UK, and the lowest for Sweden. A wage decrease due to time spent in unemployment results in a decline in the hourly wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293660
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Are Austrian Returns to Education Falling Over Time?
Fersterer, Josef; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
In this paper we make a systematic presentation of returns to education in Austria for the period 1981-1997. We use consistent cross-sections from the Mikrozensus and find falling returns over time. These falling returns are not caused by changes in the sample design and reduced willingness to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662384
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Employer Learning And The Returns To Schooling
Bauer, Thomas; Haisken-DeNew, John P - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
We examine the dynamic role of education and experience as determinants of wages. It is hypothesized that an employee …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666574
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The Earnings Distribution and Returns to Education in Ireland, 1987-94
Barrett, Alan; Callan, Tim; Nolan, Brian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
The increased supply of skilled labour and institutional factors have been advanced in an effort to explain why some countries have experienced smaller increases in earnings dispersion and in returns to education relative to the United States. Ireland’s supply of skilled labour has increased...
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