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Decomposing migrant self-selection : education, occupation, and unobserved abilities
Kauppinen, Ilpo; Poutvaara, Panu - 2023
We analyze self-selection and sorting of emigrants from Finland, using full-population administrative data from Statistics Finland. We analyze emigration events lasting at least five years and decompose migrant self-selection into education, occupation, and unobserved abilities. Our analysis...
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Slowdown in immigration, labor shortages, and declining skill premia
Mandelman, Federico S.; Yu, Yang; Zanetti, Francesco; … - 2024
We document a steady decline in low-skilled immigration that began with the onset of the Great Recession in 2007, which was associated with labor shortages in low-skilled service occupations and a decline in the skill premium. Falling returns to high-skilled jobs coincided with a decline in the...
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Permanent residency and refugee immigrants' skill investment
Nielson Arendt, Jacob; Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin - 2023
residency to incentivize their labor market attachment and acquisition of local language skills. Contrary to what the reform … intended, the overall employment of those affected decreased while their average language proficiency remained largely …
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Labor market effects of sports and exercise : evidence from Canadian panel data
Lechner, Michael; Sari, Nazmi - 2014
-run income effects. However, an activity level above the current recommendation of the WHO for minimum physical activity is …
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Skill, innovation and wage inequality : can immigrants be the Trump Card?
Das, Gouranga Gopal; Marjit, Sugata; Kar, Mausumi - 2019
labor is not always benefited by high skilled migrants into R&D-sector. Rather, it depends on the importance of migrants …
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Skill, innovation and wage inequality : can immigrants be the Trump Card?
Das, Gouranga Gopal; Marjit, Sugata - 2018 - This Draft May 2018
labor is not always benefited by high skilled migrants into R&D-sector. Rather, it depends on the importance of migrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011862868
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The returns to elite college education : a quasi-experimental analysis
Anelli, Massimo - 2016
admission threshold have 52% higher yearly income with respect to just-below-threshold students. This premium is equivalent to a … jump from the 44th percentile to the 74th percentile of the income distribution. The richness of the data allows me to … income premium. I find that students with a just-above-threshold score are less likely to be college dropouts, take six fewer …
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Wages, skills, and skill-biased technical change : the canonical model revisited
Bowlus, Audra J.; Lochner, Lance; Robinson, Chris; … - 2021
The canonical supply-demand model of the wage returns to skill has been extremely influential; however, it has faced several important challenges. Several studies show that the standard approach sometimes produces theoretically wrong-signed elasticities of substitution, yields counterintuitive...
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A partial identification approach to identifying the determinants of human capital accumulation: an application to teachers
Mehta, Nirav - 2022
This paper views teacher quality through the human capital perspective. Teacher quality exhibits substantial growth over teachers’ careers, but why it improves is not well understood. I use a human capital production function nesting On-the-Job-Training (OJT) and Learning-by-Doing (LBD) and...
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Preterm births and educational disadvantage : heterogeneous effects across families and schools
Baranowska-Rataj, Anna; Barclay, Kieron; Costa-Font, Joan; … - 2019
Using Swedish population register data on cohorts born 1982-1994 (N=1,087,750), we examine the effects of preterm births on school grades using sibling fixed effect models which compare individuals with their non-preterm siblings. We test for heterogeneous effects by degree of prematurity, as...
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