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Wages and employment : the role of occupational skills
Girsberger, Esther Mirjam; Koomen, Miriam; Krapf, Matthias - 2018
How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and estimate a search and matching model for workers with a VET degree. Workers differ in interpersonal, cognitive and manual skills, while firms require and value different...
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Matching language proficiency to occupation : the effect on immigrants' earnings
Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor);  … - 2007
that earnings are related to correct matching of an individual's language skills and that of his occupation. Moreover, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003449481
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Occupational language requirements and the value of English in the US labor market
Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor);  … - 2007
native born and foreign born, as reported in the 2000 Census, one percent sample. Working in an occupation that requires … required for the occupation, and when those with high levels of proficiency work in jobs requiring English language skills … occupation's requirements, and this matching does tend to occur in the labor market. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003539238
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Earnings and occupational attainment : immigrants and the native born
Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper examines the determinants of occupational attainment and the impact of occupation on earnings. Results for … earnings gains associated with years of schooling derives from inter-occupational mobility. When occupation is held constant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003540029
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Wages, sorting on skill, and the racial composition of jobs
Hirsch, Barry T. (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001743834
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How useful is the concept of skills mismatch?
McGuinness, Séamus; Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Redmond, Paul - 2017
The term skill mismatch is very broad and can relate to many forms of labour market friction, including vertical mismatch, skill gaps, skill shortages, field of study (horizontal) mismatch and skill obsolescence. In this paper we provide a clear overview of each concept and discuss the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664385
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Capital deepening and wage differentials : Germany vs. US
Koeniger, Winfried (contributor);  … - 2006
Capital deepening may affect the evolution of the wage differential between skilled and unskilled workers differently in countries with different labor market institutions. If labor market institutions raise the relative wage of unskilled workers in Germany, firms have incentives to invest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003304679
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Between-group competition in the labor market and the rising returns to skill : US and France 1964-2000
Wasmer, Etienne - 2001
This paper describes the changes in the composition of the labor force in the last 35 years and quantifies the substitution of low education/high experience workers by low experience/high education workers by using US and French microdata. The consequences of this substitution on the wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401268
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Racial discrimination in the US labor market : employment and wage differentials by skill
Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel; Bradley, Jake; Tarasonis, Linas - 2014
In the US labor market the average black worker is exposed to a lower employment rate and earns a lower wage compared to his white counterpart. Lang and Lehmann (2012) argue that these mean differences mask substantial heterogeneity along the distribution of workers' skill. In particular, they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010355697
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English skills, labour market status and earnings of Turkish women
Di Paolo, Antonio; Tansel, Aysıt - 2019
) occupation dummies are included as additional controls. Indeed, being proficient in English barely affects occupational status …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011979898