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Evolution of the Chinese rural-urban migrant labor market from 2002 to 2007
Qu, Zhaopeng Frank; Zhao, Zhong - 2011
sets. Our focus is on the rural-urban migration decision, the wage structure of migrants, the urban labor market … segmentation between migrants and urban natives, and the changes of these aspects from 2002 to 2007. We find that prior migration … to 2007. Our results show that there is a significant increase in wages among both migrants and urban natives over this 5 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009124150
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The wage performance of immigrant women : full-time jobs, part-time jobs, and the role of selection
Dustmann, Christian; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2000
This paper contrasts labour participation behaviour and wages of native and immigrant women. Since the impact of family structure on labor supply differs between natives and immigrants, we explicitly distinguish between part-time and full-time jobs. The choice of jobs is accounted for by an...
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Do negative native-place stereotypes lead to discriminatory wage penalties in China's migrant labor markets?
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Tran, Ngoc-Han Thi - 2015
analyze the question of wage discrimination among migrants by estimating wage equations for men and women, controlling for … provinces of origin. We find no systemic differences by province of origin in the hourly wages of male and female migrants …. However, in a few specific cases, we find that migrants from a particular province earn significantly less than those from …
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Do migrants lower workplace wages?
White, Michael; Bryson, Alex - 2017
and the percentage of migrants employed at a workplace. We find wages are lower in workplaces employing a higher … percentage of migrants, but only when those migrants are non-EEA migrants. However, the effects are no longer apparent when we …
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Immigrant wages in the Spanish labour market : does the origin of human capital matter?
Sanromá, Esteban; Ramos, Raúl; Simón, Hipólito - 2009
The aim of this paper is to analyse the role played by the different components of human capital in the wage determination of recent immigrants within the Spanish labour market. Using microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes 2007, the paper examines returns to human capital of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832286
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ORU analyses of immigrant earnings in Australia, with international comparisons
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009
This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation/required education/undereducation (ORU) framework (Hartog, 2000) and a decomposition of the native-born/foreign-born differential in the payoff to schooling developed by Chiswick and Miller...
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Transferability of human capital and immigrant assimilation : an analysis for Germany
Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K. - 2010
This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience...
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Did employer sanctions lose their bite? : labor market effects of immigrant legalization
Lofstrom, Magnus; Hill, Laura; Hayes, Joseph M. - 2010
Taking advantage of the ability to identify immigrants who were unauthorized to work prior to obtaining Legal Permanent Resident status, we use the New Immigrant Survey to examine whether lacking legal status to work in the U.S. constrains employment outcomes of illegal immigrants. With the...
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Are foreign migrants more assimilated than native ones?
Faini, Riccardo; Strøm, Steinar; Venturini, Alessandra; … - 2009
The paper compares the pattern of wage assimilation of foreigners with both native immigrants and local natives in Italy, a country with large internal and international migration. This comparison, not yet exploited, yields understanding of the role played by language and knowledge of social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003926737
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Immigrant heterogeneity and the earnings distribution in the United Kingdom and United States : new evidence from a panel data quantile regression analysis
Billger, Sherrilyn M.; Lamarche, Carlos - 2010
In this paper we use a relatively new panel data quantile regression technique to examine native-immigrant earnings differentials 1) throughout the conditional wage distribution, and 2) controlling for individual heterogeneity. No previous papers have simultaneously considered these factors. We...
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