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Moving up the social ladder? : wages of first- and second-generation immigrants from developing countries
Pineda-Hernández, Kevin; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022
As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working ….5% for first- and second-generation immigrants, respectively. However, controlling for a wide range of observables (e.g. age … first-generation immigrants born in developing countries still experience a sizeable adjusted wage gap (2.7%), there is no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470617
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The heterogeneous effects of workers’ countries of birth on over-education
Jacobs, Valentine; Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François; … - 2019
-education, but also one of the few to study the moderating roles of gender and education for detailed categories of immigrants. With … particularly critical among higher-educated immigrants. Gender-based differences in immigrants' penalties, in contrast, are found … immigrants born in developing countries to be over-educated and that citizenship acquisition is also associated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012126834
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Immigrant overeducation across generations : the role of gender and part-time work
Pineda-Hernández, Kevin; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2024
A large body of literature shows that first-generation immigrants born in developing countries experience a higher … comes to the overeducation of second-generation immigrants. Using a matched employer-employee database for Belgium over the … immigrants. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014535655
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Does education raise productivity and wages equally? : the moderating roles of age, gender and industry
Rycx, François; Saks, Yves; Tojerow, Ilan - 2015
The labour market situation of low-educated people is particularly critical in most advanced economies, especially among youngsters and women. Policies aiming to increase their employability either try to foster their productivity and/or to decrease their wage cost. Yet, the evidence on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528800
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Are occupations paid what they are worth? : an econometric study of occupational wage inequality and productivity
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2011
Labour economists typically assume that pay differences between occupations can be explained with variations in … productivity-wage gaps. They find that occupations play distinct roles for remuneration and productivity: while the estimations … ; wages ; occupations ; production function ; matched employer-employee data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009380420
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Wage effects of educational mismatch according to workers' origin: the role of demographics and firm characteristics
Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2021
This paper examines the influence of educational mismatch on wages according to workers' region of birth, taking advantage of our access to rich matched employer-employee data for the Belgian private sector for the period 1999-2010. Using a fine-grained approach to measuring educational mismatch...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012670643
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Wage discrimination against immigrants : measurement with firm-level productivity data
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2016
against immigrants. We build on an identification strategy proposed by Bartolucci (2014) and address firm fixed effects and … Belgium suggest significant wage discrimination against women and (to a lesser extent) against immigrants. We find no evidence … for double discrimination against female immigrants. Institutional factors such as firm-level collective bargaining and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528095
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Does over-education raise productivity and wages equally? : the moderating role of workers' origin and immigrants' background
Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022
We provide first evidence of the impact of over-education, among natives and immigrants, on firm-level productivity and … higher for natives than for immigrants. However, since the differential in productivity gains associated with over …-education between natives and immigrants outweighs the corresponding wage premium differential, we conclude - based on OLS and dynamic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012879761
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L' union fait la force? : evidence for wage discrimination in firms with high diversity
Grinza, Elena; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2018
Measuring the economic impact of coworkers from different countries of origin sparked intense scrutiny in labor economics, albeit with an uncomfortable methodological limitation. Most attempts involved metrics that eliminate most of the economically relevant distances among different countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011859491
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Does wage dispersion make all firms productive?
Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2011
This article puts the relationship between wage dispersion and firm productivity to an updated test, taking advantage of access to detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data. Controlling for simultaneity issues, time-invariant workplace characteristics and dynamics in the adjustment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009309573