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First and Second Generation Immigrant Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes: A Comparison of the United States and Canada
Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Sweetman, Arthur - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
the United States and Canada are compared. These countries’ immigration flows have large differences in source countries …, scale and timing, and Canada has a much larger policy emphasis on skilled workers. Following from these, the educational … attainment of US immigrants is currently lower than that in Canada and the intergenerational transmission of education is …
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The Distribution of Top Incomes in Five Anglo-Saxon Countries over the Twentieth Century
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first …
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Economic Mobility, Family Background, and the Well-Being of Children in the United States and Canada
Corak, Miles; Curtis, Lori; Phipps, Shelley - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
and Canada addresses three questions. First, is there something to explain? We suggest that the existing literature finds …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529141
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The Complexity of Immigrant Generations: Implications for Assessing the Socioeconomic Integration of Hispanics and Asians
Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
substantially lowered attrition rates for second- and third-generation Hispanics and Asians, ethnic attrition remains a significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009422062
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Are Hispanic Immigrant Families Reviving the Economies of America's Small Towns?
Coates, Dennis; Gindling, T. H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
In the 1990s, rural areas and small towns in the United States, which had been losing population, became the destinations for an increasing number of Hispanic immigrants and their families, slowing and in some cases reversing population declines. In this paper, we examine whether faster growth...
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The Minimum Wage and Latino Workers
Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Latinos comprise a large and growing share of the low-skilled labor force in the U.S. and may be disproportionately affected by minimum wage laws as a result. We compare the effects of minimum wage laws on employment and earnings among Hispanic immigrants and natives compared with non-Hispanic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008756381
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Peer Effects in the Workplace
Cornelissen, Thomas; Dustmann, Christian; Schönberg, Uta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Existing evidence on peer effects in a work environment stems from either laboratory experiments or from real-word studies referring to a specific firm or specific occupation. Yet, it is unclear to what extent these findings apply to the labor market in general. In this paper, therefore, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884194
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Unions and the Labor Market for Managers
DiNardo, John; Hallock, Kevin F.; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
We examine the relationship between the employment and compensation of managers and CEOs and the presence of a unionized workforce. We develop a simple efficiency wage model, with a tradeoff between higher wages for workers and more monitoring, which requires more managers. The model also...
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The Structure of the Permanent Job Wage Premium: Evidence from Europe
Kahn, Lawrence M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom. I find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010812037
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Big Fish in Small Pond or Small Fish in Big Pond? An Analysis of Job Mobility
Cardoso, Ana Rute - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
The statement that individuals care for status and for their position within a hierarchy has been subject to sparse economic analysis. I check this assertion by analyzing wages and status within the firm, with status measured as the worker rank in the firm wage hierarchy. More precisely, I focus...
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