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Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel

Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. However, in some countries where labor markets...

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Substitution Between Individual and Cultural Capital: Pre-Migration Labor Supply, Culture and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Woman

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

country female labor supply. We obtain broadly similar effects analyzing the determinants of hourly earnings among the …

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The Transmission of Women's Fertility, Human Capital and Work Orientation across Immigrant Generations

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Liu, Albert Yung-Hsu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Using 1995–2006 Current Population Survey and 1970–2000 Census data, we study the intergenerational transmission of fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women's fertility and labor supply are significantly...

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The Labor Market Costs of Conflict: Closures, Foreign Workers, and Palestinian Employment and Earnings

Miaari, Sami H.; Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

In this paper, we measure the implications of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for Palestinian employment and earnings … overseas foreign workers in the Israeli labor market. Data on Palestinian employment and earnings are taken from the … Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Palestinian employment rates in Israel and mean monthly earnings, regardless of work location …

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Immigrant Labor, Child-Care Services, and the Work-Fertility Trade-Off in the United States

Furtado, Delia; Hock, Heinrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

The negative correlation between female employment and fertility in industrialized nations has weakened since the 1960s, particularly in the United States. We suggest that the continuing influx of low-skilled immigrants has led to a substantial reduction in the trade-off between work and...

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Immigration, Family Responsibilities and the Labor Supply of Skilled Native Women

Farré, Lídia; Gonzalez, Libertad; Ortega, Francesc - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

as housekeeping and child or elderly care. As a result, i) native females with high earnings potential were able to …

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Can Immigrants Help Women "Have it All"? Immigrant Labor and Women's Joint Fertility and Labor Supply Decisions

Furtado, Delia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force participation rates among high skilled US-born women in cities that have experienced larger...

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Fertility Responses of High-Skilled Native Women to Immigrant Inflows

Furtado, Delia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

While there is debate regarding the magnitude of the impact, immigrant inflows are generally understood to depress wages and increase employment in immigrant-intensive sectors. In light of the over-representation of the foreign-born in the childcare industry, this paper examines whether...

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Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation among Immigrants: 1980-2000

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Papps, Kerry L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We use 1980, 1990 and 2000 Census data to study the impact of source country characteristics on the labor supply assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor force participation rates work substantially more...

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Mexican Immigrants, the Labor Market and the Current Population Survey: Seasonality Effects, Framing Effects, and Sensitivity of Results

Lozano, Fernando A.; Sorensen, Todd - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

In this paper we compare estimates of immigrants’ labor supply assimilation profiles using the Current Population Survey Annual Demographic Files (March ADS) and the Current Population Survey Outgoing Rotation Groups (ORGs). We use a measure that is seemingly consistent across both surveys:...

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