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Are Immigrants Favorably Self-Selected? An Economic Analysis
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2000
criteria can ration visas on one or more characteristics that enhance labor market earnings (e.g., education), or on …
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Migration, the quality of the labour force and economic inequality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008
Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...
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Fiscal Policy and Educational Attainment in the United States : A Generational Accounting Perspective
Chojnicki, Xavier; Docquier, Frédéric - 2004
In this paper, we investigate the consequences of the rise in educational attainment on the US generational accounts. We build on the 1995 accounts of Gokhale et al. (1999) and disaggregate them per schooling level. We show that low skill newborns are characterized by a negative generational...
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Overeducation and Skill Endowments The Role of School Achievement and Vocational Training Quality
Büchel, Felix; Pollmann-Schult, Matthias - 2001
traditional skill measures such as experience, tenure, on-the-job-training, and further education. In sum, our results clearly …
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Education Driving the Rise in Dutch Female Employment: Explanations for the Increase in Part-time Work and Female Employment in the Netherlands, Contrasted with Germany
Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - 2001
Over the last 15 years, the Netherlands has experienced a tremendous jobs boom, mainly in services and female employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch institutional environment. Using a model which allows for direct utility of work, we find that institutional arrangements...
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Returns to apprenticeship training in Austria: evidence from failed firms
Fersterer, Josef; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Winter-Ebmer, … - 2007
Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. There is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and there might be an important element of selection in who obtains an apprenticeship, and what type. To...
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Does education matter for economic growth?
Delgado, Michael S.; Henderson, Daniel J.; Parmeter, … - 2012
Empirical growth regressions typically include mean years of schooling as a proxy for human capital. However, empirical research often finds that the sign and significance of schooling depends on the sample of observations or the specification of the model. We use a nonparametric local-linear...
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Wage growth through job hopping in China
Ariga, Kenn; Ohtake, Fumio; Sasaki, Masaru; Wu, Zheren - 2012
disadvantage in urban labor market is compensated by their higher job mobility. After four jobs, the expected earnings …
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South-south migration: the impact of Nicaraguan immigrants on earnings, inequality and poverty in Costa Rica
Gindling, T. H. - 2008
the hypothesis that Nicaraguan migration to Costa Rica was an important factor contributing to falling earnings, increased …
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A "glass-ceiling" effect for immigrants in the Italian labour market?
Dell'Aringa, Carlo; Lucifora, Claudio; Pagani, Laura - 2012
This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the … human capital, for immigrants and natives, in explaining inter-occupational and intra-occupational earnings progression … mainly driven by intra-occupational earnings progression. Moreover, and contrary to what is observed for natives, we detect …
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