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This is a contribution to the new economics of skilled labor emigration that focuses on the mobility of medical doctors from sending Middle East and North African countries. Economic models under risk neutrality and aversion are used. The findings show that the relative expected benefits and the...
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This paper complements previous studies on the effects of health on wages by addressing the problems of unobserved heterogeneity, sample selection, and endogeneity in one comprehensive framework. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) we find the health variable to suffer from...
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face a higher cost-of-living that could possibly reduce the graduate real wage relative to other groups and carry … implications for measures of wage dispersion. This paper reassesses how estimates of wage inequality from 1997 to 2008 vary when … regional differences in the cost of housing in the UK are taken into consideration. In order to do so, the real wage is …
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This paper examines the poor performance of recent immigrants to Canada in the labour market as revealed in the Statistics Canada Census 2006 Public Use Microdata File (PUMF). It presents the data which shows that immigrants from less developed countries are doing much worse than immigrants from...
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/training and communication skills. Counterfactual estimates of the wage impacts of immigration are skewed: the largest gain from …
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This paper examines the poor performance of recent immigrants to Canada in the labour market as revealed in the Statistics Canada Census 2006 Public Use Microdata File (PUMF). It presents the data which shows that immigrants from less developed countries are doing much worse than immigrants from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009132745
immigrants of whom there were 398 thousand aged15 and over who reported employment income in the Census. An encouraging fact … 44 earning employment had earned university certificates or degrees compared to 31 per cent of non-visible minority 2nd …
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histories we find wage effects of high involvement management (HIM) practices are generally positive and significant. However …, employees with better wage and work histories are more likely to enter HIM jobs. The wage premium falls substantially having …
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wage decreases. On the other hand, when additional job-level tenure leads to a sizable increase in productivity, workers … clear hump-shaped wage-job-tenure profile for workers who stay in the same job level, which supports my model’s prediction. …
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This paper examines the performance of recent immigrants to Canada in the labour market as revealed in the Longitudinal Immigration Database (IMDB), which is an administrative database constructed by Statistics Canada by combining an administrative landing file from Citizenship and Immigration...
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