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Wage differences according to workers' origin: the role of working more upstream in GVCs

Fays, Valentine; Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François - 2021

This paper is the first to investigate the role of firm-level upstreamness (i.e. the number of steps before the production of a firm meets final demand) in explaining wage differences according to workers' origin. Using unique linked employer-employee data relative to the Belgian manufacturing...

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Wage discrimination based on the country of birth : do tenure and product market competition matter?

Fays, Valentine; Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François; … - 2019

measure of worker productivity. We control for a wide range of worker and firm characteristics, as well as time …

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Wage dispersion and firm productivity in different working environments

Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2009

This paper investigates the impact of wage dispersion on firm productivity in different working environments. More …-shaped relationship between (conditional) wage dispersion and firm productivity. This result suggests that up to (beyond) a certain level … associate higher uncertainty with more unfair environments. -- Wage dispersion ; labour productivity ; working environments …

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Differences in education and earnings across racial and ethnic groups : tastes, discrimination, and investments in child quality

Chiswick, Barry R. - In: The quarterly journal of economics 103 (1988) 3, pp. 571-597

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Women at work in the pre-Civil War United States: an analysis of unreported family workers

Chiswick, Barry R.; Robinson, RaeAnn H. - 2020

Rates of labor force participation in the US in the second half of the nineteenth century among free women were exceedingly (and implausibly) low, about 11 percent. This is due, in part, to social perceptions of working women, cultural and societal expectations of female's role, and lack of...

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ORU analyses of immigrant earnings in Australia, with international comparisons

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation/required education/undereducation (ORU) framework (Hartog, 2000) and a decomposition of the native-born/foreign-born differential in the payoff to schooling developed by Chiswick and Miller...

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Matching language proficiency to occupation : the effect on immigrants' earnings

Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor); … - 2007

"This paper analyzes the effect on earnings of the matching of English language skills to occupational requirements. It uses data from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) database and a "Realized Matches" procedure to quantify expected levels of English skills in each of over 500...

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Occupational language requirements and the value of English in the US labor market

Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor); … - 2007

This paper is concerned with the English language requirements (both level and importance) of occupations in the United States, as measured by the O*NET database. These scores are linked to microdata on employed adult (aged 25 to 64) males, both native born and foreign born, as reported in the...

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Earnings and occupational attainment : immigrants and the native born

Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor); … - 2007

This paper examines the determinants of occupational attainment and the impact of occupation on earnings. Results for both the native born and foreign born are presented, and these provide insights as to the earnings penalties associated with the less-than-perfect international transferability...

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