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Workforce composition, productivity and pay : the role of firms in wage inequality

Criscuolo, Chiara; Hijzen, Alexander; Schwellnus, Cyrille; … - 2020

In many OECD countries, low productivity growth has coincided with rising inequality. Widening wage and productivity … productivity-related premia that firms pay their workers above common market wages. The remaining third can be attributed to …

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Wage adjustment and productivity shocks

Carlsson, Mikael; Messina, Julián; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2011

We study how workers' wages respond to TFP-driven innovations in firms' labor productivity. Using unique data with … of physical (as opposed to revenue) TFP to instrument labor productivity in the wage equations. We find that the reaction … of wages to sectoral labor productivity is almost three times larger than the response to pure idiosyncratic (firm …

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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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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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The skill-specific impact of past and projected occupational decline

Hensvik, Lena; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2020

Using population-wide Swedish register data on cognitive abilities and productive personality traits, we show that employment growth has been monotonically skill-biased in terms of these general-purpose intellectual skills, despite a simultaneous (polarizing) decline in middle-wage jobs....

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