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Migrant networks and job search outcomes : evidence from displaced workers
Colussi, Tommaso - 2015
This paper investigates how immigrants' job search outcomes are affected by the labor market outcomes of workers from the same country of origin they are connected to. Connections are identified based on having worked for the same firm in the past. Using matched employer-employee micro data from...
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403912
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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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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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Fixed exchange-rate policy and real wage growth : quasi-experimental evidence
Andini, Corrado - 2014
Using Difference-in-Differences estimation and data from the European Community Household Panel, this paper suggests …
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Offshoring and labor markets
Hummels, David; Munch, Jakob Roland; Chong, Xiang - 2016
In this paper we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage, employment and displacement. We start with an overview of the measurement of offshoring, organizing our discussion around the three key elements of offshoring: that it involves intermediate inputs for...
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How forced displacements caused by a violent conflict affect wages in Colombia
Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2016
In this paper, we analyze how forced displacements caused by violent conflicts affect the wages of displaced workers in … country. Using data from the Quality of Life Survey (2011-2014), we analyze differences in wages between those who were forced … find that forced displacement decreases between 6% and the 22% the wages of males, and between 17% and 37% the wages of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011475088
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Intergenerational progress of Mexican-origin workers in the U.S. labor market
Trejo, Stephen J. - 2001
Using unique Current Population Survey data from November 1979 and 1989, this paper compares the wage structure across generations of Mexican-origin men. I find that the sizable earnings advantage U.S.-born Mexican Americans enjoy over Mexican immigrants arises not just from intergenerational...
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Employment, wages, and alcohol consumption in Russia : evidence from panel data
Tekin, Erdal - 2002
This paper examines the effects of alcohol consumption on employment and wages for males and females in Russia. Both … impact on employment and wages. Further, there is some evidence in favor of an inverse U-shaped relationship between alcohol …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406614