Showing 1 - 10 of 377
high-skill workers.In this paper we show that a model of employer taste-based discrimination in a labor market … workers. We use the model to undertake a structural decomposition and conclude that discrimination resulting from employer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053443
postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124784
and job mobility. Across education groups permanent shocks to productivity have become more dispersed. Moreover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966057
duration dependence in unemployment benefits in a random on the job search model featuring two-sided heterogeneity. General …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013111209
This paper integrates two strands of literature on overskilling and disability using the 2004 British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS). It finds that the disabled are significantly more likely to be mismatched in the labour market, to suffer from a pay penalty and to have lower job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155565
' origin, the literature has traditionally treated male and female immigrants as a homogenous group when examining the impact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157038
This paper examines whether men's and women's noncognitive skills influence their occupational attainment and, if so, whether this contributes to the disparity in their relative wages. We find that noncognitive skills have a substantial effect on the probability of employment in many, though not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134538
This paper estimates the returns to English-speaking fluency on the socioeconomic outcomes of childhood immigrants. We … further investigate whether Muslim childhood immigrants face additional hurdles in economic and social integration into the … outcomes by exploring the differences in the country of origin and age at arrival across childhood immigrants. We first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868798
This guide, updated for the 2016-17 job market season, describes the U.S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and offers advice on conducting an academic job search. It provides data, reports findings from published papers, describes practical details, and includes links to online...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977064
on the mobility of well educated Poles. We offer insights into absolute and relative change in wages of the migrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022645