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The Complementarity of Language and Other Human Capital: Immigrant Earnings in Canada
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2002
This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 … Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with … languages enhances the effects on earnings of schooling and pre-immigration labor market experience. Language proficiency and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262796
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Transferability of human capital and immigrant assimilation: an analysis for Germany
Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K. - 2010
This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271804
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Estimating the Effect of Unemployment Insurance Compensation on the Labor Market Histories of Displaced Workers
Jurajda, Štepán - 2001
In this paper, U.S. data on labor market histories of displaced workers are used to quantify the effect of Unemployment Insurance Compensation (UIC) on both unemployment and employment durations. This results in the first available assessment of the effect that UIC has on the fraction of time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274314
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Returns to on-the-job search and the dispersion of wages
Gottfries, Axel; Teulings, Coen N. - 2016
A wide class of models with On-the-Job Search (OJS) predicts that workers gradually select into better-paying jobs, until lay-off occurs, when this selection process starts over from scratch. We develop a simple methodology to test these predictions. Our inference uses two sources of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011540616
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Returns for entrepreneurs vs. employees: the effect of education and personal control on the relative performance of entrepreneurs vs. wage employees
van Praag, C. Mirjam; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen; van … - 2009
How valuable is education for entrepreneurs' performance as compared to employees'? What might explain any differences … show furthermore that entrepreneurs have higher returns to education than employees (in terms of the comparable performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277025
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262350
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The impact of parental education on earnings: new wine in an old bottle?
Hudson, John; Sessions, John G. - 2009
We examine the impact of parental education on the shape of an individual's experience-earnings profile. A number of … earnings. Our empirical analysis of US data suggests that this is indeed the case. Higher parental education shifts the … earnings profile significantly to the left - the profile of individuals with parents who both have 15 years of education peaks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269209
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Consumption inequality and family labor supply
Blundell, Richard; Pistaferri, Luigi; Saporta-Eksten, Itay - 2012
the dynamics of consumption, hours, and earnings of two earners in the presence of correlated wage shocks, non …, earnings, assets and consumption. We focus on the importance of family labour supply as an insurance mechanism to wage shocks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290017
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Occupational tasks and changes in the wage structure
Firpo, Sergio; Fortin, Nicole M.; Lemieux, Thomas - 2011
This paper argues that changes in the returns to occupational tasks have contributed to changes in the wage distribution over the last three decades. Using Current Population Survey (CPS) data, we first show that the 1990s polarization of wages is explained by changes in wage setting between and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278329
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262608