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criteria can ration visas on one or more characteristics that enhance labor market earnings (e.g., education), or on …
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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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the rapid increase in the returns to education experienced by China during the 1990s. Analyzing Chinese urban household …
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China has achieved impressive growth over the last three decades. However, there has been debate over the sources of … quantifying their contributions to growth. In this paper, we develop a three-sector dynamic model to quantify the sources of China … continues to absorb more than half of all fixed investment. If capital had been allocated efficiently, China could have achieved …
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disadvantage in urban labor market is compensated by their higher job mobility. After four jobs, the expected earnings …
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This paper examines change in wage gaps in urban China by estimating quantile regressions on CHIPS data. It applies the …
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the hypothesis that Nicaraguan migration to Costa Rica was an important factor contributing to falling earnings, increased …
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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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criteria can ration visas on one or more characteristics that enhance labor market earnings (e.g., education), or on …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010550304