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This guide, updated for the 2016-17 job market season, describes the U.S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and offers advice on conducting an academic job search. It provides data, reports findings from published papers, describes practical details, and includes links to online...
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This paper considers the labor market assimilation of immigrants in terms of earnings and employment (employment …, the pattern of negative assimilation is observed. -- immigrants ; assimilation ; earnings ; hours worked ; employment … country (ESDC). Among men in general, 'negative assimilation' is found for immigrants from the ESDC, and positive assimilation …
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We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are characterized by considerable differences in labor market institutions and welfare states. Institutions such as collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and...
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There is a substantial literature on the scarring effects of unemployment on future employment prospects and a smaller one on the scarring effects of low pay, but the possibility that skills mismatch in the form of skills under-utilisation, may also have similar detrimental effects, has not...
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In this paper we investigate the effect of Head Start on long term education and labor market outcomes using data from the NLSY79. The contributions to the existing literature on the effectiveness of Head Start are threefold: (1) we are the first to examine distributional effects of Head Start...
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higher risk of subsequent unemployment and lower trajectory for future earnings after re-entry, it is crucial to gain a …
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This paper uses data from the 1996 Australian Survey of Aspects of Literacy to examine the effects on labour market outcomes of literacy, numeracy and educational attainment. The survey includes a range of literacy and numeracy variables that are highly inter-correlated. A "general to specific"...
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the Netherlands. We also take into account the potential endogeneity of the immigrants' labor supply and their out … and out-migration behavior. We find that simple models lead to biased estimates of the wage growth of immigrants … account the endogeneity of labor supply and outmigration when estimating immigrants' wage growth. …
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weekly earnings of male university-educated immigrants in all three countries concomitant with skilled immigration policy … interpret the U.S. advantage as primarily reflecting the relative positive selectivity of U.S. immigrants. … influence the labour market performance of skilled immigrants. Our estimates point to improvements in employment rates and …
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Taking advantage of the ability to identify immigrants who were unauthorized to work prior to obtaining Legal Permanent … employment outcomes of illegal immigrants. With the exception of high-skilled unauthorized immigrants, the data fail to reveal … evidence of improved employment outcomes attributable to legal status. In light of evidence that unauthorized immigrants …
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