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Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel
Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. In some countries where labour markets are...
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Doctors without Borders: The Returns to an Occupational License for Soviet Immigrant Physicians in Israel
Kugler, Adriana D.; Sauer, Robert M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
Re-licensing requirements for professionals that move across borders are widespread. In this Paper, we measure the returns to an occupational license using novel data on Soviet trained physicians that immigrated to Israel. An immigrant re-training assignment rule used by the Israel Ministry of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136637
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The Economic Performance of Germany's East European Immigrants
Schmidt, Christoph M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
Germany has experienced a substantial influx of German immigrants from Eastern Europe after World War II and expects several million more as a consequence of the demise of socialism. This paper analyses the economic performance of ethnic German migrants to West Germany in comparison with native...
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What Makes an Entrepreneur and Does it Pay? Native Men, Turks and Other Migrants in Germany
Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
This Paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong entrepreneurial tradition; self-employed Turks in Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005497816
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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....
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Discrimination in the Swiss Labour Market: an Empirical Analysis
Golder, Stefan M.; Straubhaar, Thomas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
-economic endowments or to discrimination. We use the well-known econometric technique, developed by Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973), to … determine the extent of discrimination. As data on earnings are available only for employed, we adopt a two-stage Heckman … Survey (SLFS). The earnings difference decomposition between natives and immigrants reveals that the discrimination effect …
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Earnings Inequality, Returns to Education and Immigration into Ireland
Barrett, Alan; Fitz Gerald, John; Nolan, Brian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
Increasing earnings inequality has been an important feature of the US and UK labour markets in recent years. The increase appears to be related to an increased demand for skilled labour and an increase in the returns to education. In this paper we examine what has happened to earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124097
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The immigrant wage gap and assimilation in Australia: the impact of unobserved heterogeneity
Salehin, Mosfequs; Breunig, Robert - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2012
labour markets. Immigrants to Australia are selected on observable characteristics. They may also differ from natives on … from non-English speaking backgrounds. All immigrants experience wage assimilation as time spent in Australia increases. …
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Unexplained Gaps and Oaxaca-Blinder Decompositions
Elder, Todd E.; Goddeeris, John H.; Haider, Steven J. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009
We analyze four methods to measure unexplained gaps in mean outcomes: three decompositions based on the seminal work of Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973) and an approach involving a seemingly naïve regression that includes a group indicator variable. Our analysis yields two principal findings....
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Estimating Labour Market Discrimination with Selectivity Corrected Wage Equations: Methodological Considerations and an Illustration from Israel
Neuman, Shoshana; Oaxaca, Ronald L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
of workers into an endowment component and a discrimination component. The standard decomposition technique does not take … modified, in order to take into account the contribution of segregation to the endowments and the discrimination components. It … results show that discrimination plays a more important role in explaining gender wage differentials than in explaining ethnic …
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