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structure on labor supply differs between natives and immigrants, we explicitly distinguish between part-time and full-time jobs …
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-employee data to measure mean- and quantile-wage differentials of immigrants and ethnic minorities, both within and across firms. We …
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gap is left unexplained.In sum, these results are consistent with the presence of income discrimination towards females …
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Very little is known about gender wage disparities in Kosovo and, to date, nothing is known about how such wage disparities evolve over time, particularly during the first few years spent by young workers in the labor market. More generally, not much is known about gender wage gaps in early...
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Gender wage and employment gaps are negatively correlated across countries. We argue that non-random selection of women into work explains an important part of such correlation and thus of the observed variation in wage gaps. The idea is that, if women who are employed tend to have relatively...
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The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied … of overeducation among non-Western immigrants. We also analyze whether there is state-dependence in overeducation and … extend the immigrant educational mismatch literature by investigating whether this is a more severe problem among immigrants …
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We investigate the extent to which deficiency at English as measured by English as Additional Language (EAL), contribute to the immigrant-native wage gap for female employees in the UK, controlling for covariates. To deal with the endogeneity of EAL and a substantial problem of self-selection...
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The effect of immigration on host and origin countries is mediated by the way migrants take their labor supply decisions. We propose a simple way of integrating the traditional random utility maximization model used to analyze location decisions with a classical labor demand function at...
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Standard macroeconomic models underpredict the volatility of unemployment fluctuations. A common solution is to assume … jobs. This form of wage rigidity does not affect job creation and thus cannot explain the unemployment volatility puzzle …
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