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In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness with declining generosity. This is the principal...
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achieved human capital do not significantly influence immigrant wages in Hamamatsu. Instead, ascribed human capital (e ….g., gender, ethnicity) has a much greater impact on immigrant wages in Japan than in the United States. Although the use of … social networks by immigrants to find jobs has a significant impact on wages in both countries, the effect is positive in …
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The belief that immigrants generate beneficial externalities in their host countries, specifically in the form of an increased opportunity and ability of firms to expand their foreign trade, has recently been challenged by George Borjas in Heaven's Door (1999, p. 97) as having no empirical...
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interpersonal interactions are important determinants of labor-market outcomes, including occupations and wages. We show that … the late 1970s and early 1990s can help explain why women's wages increased more rapidly, while the wages of blacks grew …
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In this paper, I analyze intergenerational mobility of immigrants and natives in Germany. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP), I find intergenerational elasticities that range from 0.19 to 0.26 for natives and from 0.37 to 0.40 for immigrants. These elasticity estimates are lower than...
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We show that U.S. manufacturing wages during the Great Depression were importantly determined by forces on firms …
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Public schooling in the U.S. has numerous critics, many of whom suggest that alternatives such as providing vouchers for private schools may be more effective. This paper combines decennial census and American Community Survey data for various years to examine the relationship between...
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decline in the demand for and the real wages of this group after 2000. We investigate empirically, whether there has been a … education attainment and wages over time, we put a particular focus on changes of the task composition, the chances of entering … top-paying jobs, entry wages and wage growth, and skill premia over time. To allow for a detailed analysis, we distinguish …
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Using Difference-in-Differences estimation and data from the European Community Household Panel, this paper suggests …
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individuals over ten years, we find huge and long-lasting drawbacks from entering a start-up in terms of wages, yearly income, and …
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