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How Does Education Affect the Earnings Distribution in Urban China?
Wang, Le - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
China's phenomenal growth is accompanied by both relatively low level of standards of living and high inequality. It is widely believe that investing in education could be an effective strategy to promote higher standards of living as well as to reduce inequality. However, little is known about...
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Is Graduate Under-employment Persistent? Evidence from the United Kingdom
Mosca, Irene; Wright, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper examines the persistence of under-employment amongst UK higher education graduates. For the cohort of …
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Gender Discrimination in the Australian Graduate Labour Market
Li, Ian W.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper examines gender discrimination in the Australian graduate labour market, using data from the Graduate … is applied. A smaller gender wage gap is found for university graduates than that reported for all workers in earlier … earnings equation on the standardised gender pay gap. Female graduates are less likely to be overeducated, compared to male …
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Overeducation among Immigrants in Sweden: Incidence, Wage Effects and State-Dependence
Andersson Joona, Pernilla; Datta Gupta, Nabanita; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied extensively. In the Swedish context this question is of great policy relevance due to the high levels of refugee migration and inflow of tied movers. Using Swedish register data...
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Language and Labor Market Success
Isphording, Ingo E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This article summarizes three different strands of the literature that address the labor market effects of language-related human capital. (1) A general importance is demonstrated in the empirical evidence on earnings and employment effects of literacy as the ability to productively use written...
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Does Better Pre-Migration Performance Accelerate Immigrants' Wage Assimilation?
Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Toomet, Ott; Hochfellner, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper analyzes wage assimilation of ethnic German immigrants to Germany. We use unique administrative data that include a standardized measure of immigrants' pre-migration wage based on occupation, industry, tenure, qualification, and the German wage structure. We find that immigrants...
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Are Immigrants Favorably Self-Selected? An Economic Analysis
Chiswick, Barry R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
This paper explores the theoretical issues and the empirical literature regarding the selectivity of migrants. Although the primary focus is on international migration, reference is made to internal migration and return migration. The theoretical analysis indicates a tendency toward the...
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Overeducation and Local Labour Markets in Spain
Ramos, Raul; Sanromá, Esteban - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The objective of this paper is to analyze the influence of individual variables and some characteristics related to spatial mobility in regional labour markets on overeducation in Spain. With this aim, we use microdata from the Spanish Budget Family Survey to estimate a logit model for...
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Do Foreign Experts Increase the Productivity of Domestic Firms?
Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj; Munch, Jakob R.; Skaksen, Jan Rose - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
While most countries welcome (and some even subsidise) high-skilled immigrants, there is very limited evidence of their importance for domestic firms. To guide our empirical analysis, we first set up a simple theoretical model to show how foreign experts may impact on the productivity and wages...
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Mind the Gap: A Detailed Picture of the Immigrant-Native Earnings Gap in the UK Using Longitudinal Data Between 1978 and 2006
Lemos, Sara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Using the underexplored, sizeable and long Lifetime Labour Market Database (LLMDB) we estimated the immigrant-native earnings gap across the entire earnings distribution, across continents of nationality and across cohorts of arrival in the UK between 1978 and 2006. We exploited the longitudinal...
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