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Applicants for any given job are more or less suited to fill it, and the firm will select the best among them. Increasing the wage offer attracts more applicants and makes it possible to raise the hiring standard and improve the productivity of the staff. Wages that optimize on the trade-off...
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This paper analyses the wage premia associated with workers' occupational use of foreign languages in Germany. After eliminating time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity and other confounding factors, sizable returns of about 10 percent to applying fluent English skills are found. Returns to...
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Economics of discrimination has been the topic of interest of many in the last decade or two. Human capital theory … immigrants-natives wage gap to find the extent of potential discrimination against the immigrants. Using employees' level data …
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endogeneity of migration through an instrumental variable estimation our empirical results show that international migration has a … the capital obtained from international migration only to overcome liquidity constraints for subsistence production … whereas migration itself seems to be the superior investment option compared to other productive activities such as livestock …
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International migration not only enables individuals to earn higher wages but also exposes them to new environments … caregivers in migrant households. Using unique survey data from Moldova, we find that international migration raises parental … on GDP growth shocks in the destination countries and migration networks. We conclude that aspirations are a highly …
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' interactions that explains how chain migration can lead to a breakdown of traditional caregiving structures while an opposing … data from Moldova and found to perform better than predictions of some established migration models. The empirical analysis … suggests that migration and staying in order to provide care are strategic complements for children of elderly parents in most …
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in a migration experience, which increases the migrant's aspirations. This will induce her to invest more in the … given migration rate. We show that the optimal migration rate that maximizes the post-migration skill-rate of the population … is higher if we allow for the aspirations effect of migration. We use panel data from Indonesia to demonstrate that a …
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in their effective hours of labor when they move to the United States; (iii) migration reduces inequality, more …
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immigration on unemployment. The transitory restrictions for worker migration after the EU enlargements of 2004 and 2007 exemplify … order to account for unobserved heterogeneity as well as the potential endogeneity of migration flows and the high …
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We analyze how migration prevalence and remittances shape income distribution using novel panel data that is nationally … migration (attrition), we find that migration prevalence has increased between 2002 and 2007 reversing the unequalizing effects … inequality, and find that the regions that had the highest increase in international migration are also the regions where the …
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