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Skill premium, labor supply and changes in the structure of wages in Latin America

Fernández, Manuel; Messina, Julián - 2017

Earnings inequality declined rapidly in Argentina, Brazil and Chile during the 2000s. A reduction in the experience premium is a fundamental driver of declines in upper-tail (90/50) inequality, while a decline in the education premium is the primary determinant of the evolution of lower-tail...

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Measuring the spatial misallocation of labor : the returns to India-Gulf guest work in a natural experiment

Clemens, Michael A. - 2019

"Guest workers" earn higher wages overseas on temporary low-skill employment visas. This wage effect can quantify …

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The dynamics of return migration, human capital accumulation, and wage assimilation

Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2021

profiles. Our study also explains the willingness of immigrants to accept jobs at wages that seem unacceptable to natives …

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The labour market effect of immigration : accounting for effective immigrant work experience in New Zealand

Tse, Michael M. H.; Maani, Sholeh A. - 2016

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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How do native and migrant workers contribute to innovation? : a study on France, Germany and the UK

Fassio, Claudio; Montobbio, Fabio; Venturini, Alessandra - 2015

This paper uses the French and the UK Labour Force Surveys and the German Microcensus to estimate the effects of different components of the labour force on innovation at the sectoral level between 1994 and 2005. The authors focus, in particular, on the contribution of migrant workers. We adopt...

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Why work more? : the impact of taxes, and culture of leisure on labor supply in Europe

Mocan, Naci; Pogorelova, Luiza - 2015

We use micro data from the European Social Survey to investigate the impact of “culture of leisure” and taxes on labor force participation and hours worked of second-generation immigrants who reside in 26 European countries. These individuals are born in Europe, and they have been exposed to...

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Migration and imperfect labor markets : theory and cross-country evidence from Denmark, Germany and the UK

Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J.; Upward, Richard - 2012

suffers more from further immigration in Germany than in the UK. -- immigration ; unemployment ; wages ; labor markets ; panel …We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are … bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and unemployment benefits affect the way in which wages respond to labor supply …

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Immigrants and unemployment in the European Community : from the eyes of natives

Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002 - November 1999 (revised: May 2002)

This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the foreigners in specific regions. This paper, instead, utilizes...

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Youth employment and academic performance : production functions and policy effects

Holford, Angus - 2016

We identify the effects of part-time employment, study time at home, and attitudes in school, in the production function for educational performance among UK teenagers in compulsory education. Our approach identifies the factors driving differences between the reduced form 'policy effect' of...

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Why do we ignore the risk in schooling decisions?

Hartog, Joop; Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2014

While uncertainty abounds in almost any decision on investment in schooling, it is mostly ignored in research and virtually absent in labour economics text books. This paper documents the scope for risk, discusses the tough disentanglement of heterogeneity and risk, surveys the analytical...

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