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A "Glass-Ceiling" Effect for Immigrants in the Italian Labour Market?
Dell'Aringa, Carlo; Lucifora, Claudio; Pagani, Laura - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the (imperfect) international transferability of human capital. Data are drawn from the 2009 Italian Labour Force Survey (LFS). We show that returns to human capital are considerably lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010550304
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The Impact of Alcohol Consumption on Occupational Attainment in England
MacDonald, Ziggy; Shields, Michael A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
In this study we provide evidence on the effect of alcohol consumption on occupational attainment in England. To do this we use samples of employees from the Health Survey for England between 1992 and 1996. We find that due to the endogenous nature of alcohol consumption, OLS estimates may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703436
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The Occupational Attainment of American Jewry: 1990 to 2000
Chiswick, Barry R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper compares the occupational distributions in 1990 and 2000 of adult white men and women for American Jews and non-Jews, after adjusting for the changes in occupational classifications. The data are from the microdata files from the National Jewish Population Surveys (1990, 2000/01) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822098
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How Damaging Is Part-Time Employment to a Woman's Occupational Prospects?
Prowse, Victoria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper investigates the causes of the well documented association between part-time employment and low occupational attainment amongst British women. In particular, the relative importance of structural factors and unobserved heterogeneity to the occupational attainment of women who choose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566351
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The International Transferability of Immigrants’ Human Capital Skills
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper uses the approach in the under/over education literature to analyze the extent of matching of educational level to occupational attainment among adult native born and foreign born men in the U.S., using the 2000 Census. Overeducation is found to be more common among recent labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761876
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Youth Unemployment in Europe: What to Do about It?
Eichhorst, Werner; Hinte, Holger; Rinne, Ulf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Youth unemployment has become a severe economic and societal problem in many European countries. This paper gives an overview of the current situation and assesses different policy options. It emphasizes the role of stronger intra-EU mobility of young workers, policies to make vocational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990944
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Youth Unemployment in Korea: From a German and Transitional Labour Market Point of View
Schmid, Günther - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
’ youth labour force was unemployed compared to 21.4 percent in EU-27 in 2011. Germany, with a youth unemployment rate of 8 … unemployment rate of adults aged 45 to 54; in Germany, this figure is only 1.7. Further peculiarities come up if unemployment is … times of recession. The main part is devoted to possible lessons for Korea from Europe, in particular from Germany. Dual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884388
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The Impact of Vocational Training for the Unemployed: Experimental Evidence from Turkey
Hirshleifer, Sarojini; McKenzie, David; Almeida, Rita K.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We use a randomized experiment to evaluate a large-scale active labor market policy: Turkey's vocational training programs for the unemployed. A detailed follow-up survey of a large sample with low attrition enables precise estimation of treatment impacts and their heterogeneity. The average...
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Learning and Earning: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in India
Maitra, Pushkar; Mani, Subha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper presents the treatment effects from participating in a subsidized vocational training program targeted at women residing in low-income households in India. We combine pre-intervention data with two rounds of post-intervention data from a randomized field experiment to quantify the 6-...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959820
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The Impact of Demographic Change on Human Capital Accumulation
Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Sinning, Mathias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
effect of the relative cohort size on educational attainment of young adults in Germany is analyzed utilizing data from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005078569