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English skills, labour market status and earnings of Turkish women
Di Paolo, Antonio; Tansel, Aysit - 2019
of English skills on labour market status and, conditional on being a wage earner, on monthly earnings and occupational … level of skills in English and earnings, which is only modestly reduced when job-related variables and (especially … English) seems to stimulate labour market participation and earnings capacity, but does not substantially affect the …
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Migration and the Wage Curve : A Structural Approach to Measure the Wage and Employment Effects of Migration
Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
Based on a wage curve approach we examine the labor market effects of migration in Germany. The wage curve relies on the assumption that wages respond to a change in the unemployment rate, albeit imperfectly. This allows one to derive the wage and employment effects of migration simultaneously...
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Do Immigrants Affect Firm-Specific Wages?
Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj; Munch, Jakob Roland; Rose … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
that if labour markets arenot fully competitive, the use of immigrants may also affect wage formation at the … options (the immigrants)...br …
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Brain Drain and its Determinant : A Major Issue for Small States
Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper examines the relationship between the brain drain and country size, as well as the extent of small states overall loss of human capital. We find that small states are the main losers because they i) lose a larger proportion of their skilled labor force and ii) exhibit stronger...
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Analyzing wage differentials by fields of study: Evidence from Turkey
Di Paolo, Antonio; Tansel, Aysit - 2017
This paper analyzes the drivers of wage differences among college graduates who hold a degree in a different field of study. We focus on Turkey, an emerging country that is characterized by a sustained expansion of higher education. We estimate conditional wage gaps by field of study using OLS...
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Returns to foreign language skills in a developing country: The case of Turkey
Di Paolo, Antonio; Tansel, Aysıt - 2013
mostly linked to an increased likelihood to hold specific occupations rather than increased earnings within occupations …
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Working more for less: Part-time penalties across the working hours distribution
Günther, Tom; Schneider, Ulrich; Stürmer-Heiber, Fabian - 2023
We use German administrative and survey data to investigate the heterogeneity of part-time penalties in hourly wages and growth rates. Exploiting tax reforms for identification, we find substantial heterogeneity in part-time wage penalties from -28.3% to -7.2% compared to full-time. The...
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Promotion Prospects and Within-level Wage Growth: A Decomposition of the Part-time Penalty for Women
Ilieva, Boryana - 2023
I study the life-cycle pattern of part-time employment and its impact on wage growth in female careers. I show that the part-time wage penalty consists of two essential components: i) a penalty for promotions and ii) a within-career-level wage penalty. Using dynamic structural modeling, I...
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Comparative Essay on Returns to Education in Palestine and Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Daoud, Yousef - 2011
provided first for average returns to education second for returns at different levels of schooling and finally for returns by … different sectors of employment. The results suggest that returns to schooling are higher for Turkey at the various levels of …
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Wage Inequality and Returns to Education in Turkey: A Quantile Regression Analysis
Tansel, Aysit; Bircan, Fatma - 2011
This paper investigates the male wage inequality and its evolution over the 1994- 2002 period in Turkey by estimating Mincerian wage equations using OLS and quantile regression techniques. Male wage inequality is high in Turkey. While it declined at the lower end of the wage distribution it...
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