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On the relative gains to immigration: a comparison of the labour market position of Indians in the USA, the UK and India
De Coulon, Augustin; Wadsworth, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
While most studies of the decision to immigrate focus on the absolute income differences between countries, we argue that relative change in purchasing power or status, as captured by an individual’s ranking in the wage distribution, may also be important. This will in turn be influenced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745393
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Immigration, diversity and the labour market outcomes of native workers: some recent developments
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
addressed the questions whether and how immigration affects native workers’ labour market outcomes. In particular, it discusses …: the distinction between the displacement, productivity and amenity effects of immigration; the issues that arise in using … wage changes to identify those effects; and the problem of assessing a causal link from immigration to natives’ labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126333
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The promise of workplace training for non-college bound youth: theory and evidence from German apprenticeship
Clark, Damon; Fahr, Rene - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
This paper assesses the potential of `workplace training'' with reference to German Apprenticeship. When occupational matching is important, we derive conditions under which firms provide `optimal'' training packages. Since the German system broadly meets these conditions, we evaluate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744921
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Does high involvement management lead to higher pay?
Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
Using nationally representative survey data for Finnish employees linked to register data on their wages and work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071162
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Intergenerational transfers and household structure: why do most Italian youths live with their parents?
Manacorda, Marco; Moretti, Enrico - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
85 percent of Italian men aged 18-33 live with their parents. We argue that Italian parents like to live with their children and a rise in their income makes it possible for them to offer their children higher consumption in exchange for their presence at home. Children prefer to live on their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746329
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The impact of immigration on the local labor market outcomes of blue collar workers: panel data evidence
Ortega, Javier; Verdugo, Gregory - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
substantial evidence that immigration lowers the median annual wages of natives. The estimated negative effects are also much … endogenous changes in occupation and location attenuate the impact of immigration on natives’ wages. We also find much larger …Using a large administrative French panel data set for 1976-2007, we examine how low- educated immigration affects the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185658
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The spatial sorting and matching of skills and firms
Mion, Giordano; Naticchioni, Paolo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
wages. Using this rich database we aim to open up the black box of agglomeration economies exploiting the micro dimension of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745274
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The careers of immigrants
Damas de Matos, Ana - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
I use a unique linked employer employee panel covering all wage earners in the private sector in Portugal to shed new light on the careers of immigrants. During the first ten years in the country immigrants close one third of the initial immigrant-native wage gap. I show that one third of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746115
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Testing for factor price equality with unobserved differences in factor quality or productivity
Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen J.; Schott, Peter K. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
statistically significant differences in relative wages in all three years. These differences increase in magnitude over time and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126388
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Ambition, human capital acquisition and the metropolitan escalator
Gordon, Ian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
This paper examines the relation between ambition, as a form of dynamic human capital, and the escalator role of high order metropolitan regions, as originally identified by Fielding (1989). It argues that occupational progression in such places particularly depends on concentrations both of...
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