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Compulsory military service and future earnings : evidence from a quasi-experiment

Asali, Muhammad - 2015

% on their wages. The respective effect for the 35-44 age group is 23%. The positive effects are large and intensify with …

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Labor market incorporation of immigrants in Japan and the United States : a comparative analysis

Cornelius, Wayne A.; Tsuda, Takeyuki - 2002

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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Persistent occupational hierarchies among immigrant worker groups in the United States labor market

Postepska, Agnieszka; Vella, Francis - 2017

This paper examines the phenomenon of occupational hierarchies among immigrant labor groups in the United States. Using census data for 1940-2011 we document the persistent ranking of immigrant labor groups in major metropolitan areas reflected by their position in the empirical distribution of...

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People people: social capital and the labor-market outcomes of underrepresented groups

Borghans, Lex (contributor); Weel, Bas ter (contributor); … - 2005

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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Intergenerational mobility of immigrants in Germany : moving with natives or stuck in their neighborhoods?

Yuksel, Mutlu - 2009

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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Political socialization in flux? : linking family non-intactness during childhood to adult civic engagement

Hener, Timo; Rainer, Helmut; Siedler, Thomas - 2015

Some sociologists argue that non-intact family structures during childhood have a negative effect on adult children's civic engagement, since they undermine, and in some cases prevent, the processes and activities through which parents shape their children's political attitudes and orientations....

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The pro-trade effect of immigration on American exports during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Dunlevy, James A.; Hutchinson, William Kenneth - 2001

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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Vacation leave, work hours and wages : new evidence from linked employer-employee data

Fakih, Ali - 2014

wages by examining the case of Canada. Previous studies from the US, using individual level data, have revealed that annual …

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Testing the validity of item non-response as a proxy for cognitive and non-cognitive skills

New, Sonja C. de; Schurer, Stefanie; Leung, Felix - 2015

paradata. Fraction answered captures a third of the effect of cognitive ability on wages and education. We provide a simple …

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Does private schooling increase adult earnings? : cohort-level evidence for U.S. states

Berger, Reilee L.; Winters, John V. - 2016

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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