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Gendered effects of employment protection on earnings mobility
Bárcena Martín, Elena; Medina-Claros, Samuel; … - 2020
This paper explores potential gendered effects of employment protection on earnings mobility, differentiating between … upward and downward movements. We conduct a micro-macro mobility analysis for 23 European countries over the economic … earnings mobility (either upwards or downwards) although the effect is stronger among women of high reproductive age …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221068
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Are temporary jobs stepping stones or dead ends? : a meta-analytical review of the literature
Filomena, Mattia; Picchio, Matteo - 2021
We present a meta-analysis on the debate about the "stepping stone vs. dead end" hypothesis related to the causal effect of temporary jobs on future labour market performances. We select academic papers published on international peer-reviewed journals from 1990 until 2021. Among 78 observations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012512275
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Income inequality and the size of government : a causal analysis
Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin - 2019
Expansion of the public sector and redistributive policies may reduce income inequality, but formal tests suffer from … income inequality and government size, measured as the government expenditure share in GDP. Using a novel instrument - the … the true role of the government in attenuating income inequality. The estimated relationship between income inequality and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012151150
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The nativity wealth gap in Europe : a matching approach
Ferrari, Irene - 2019
This paper uses a matching method to provide an estimate of the nativity wealth gap among older households in Europe. This approach does not require imposing any functional form on wealth and avoids validity-out-of-the-support assumptions; furthermore, it allows not only the estimation of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161659
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How valid are synthetic panel estimates of poverty dynamics?
Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2018
A growing literature uses repeated cross-section surveys to derive 'synthetic panel' data estimates of poverty dynamics statistics. It builds on the pioneering study by Dang, Lanjouw, Luoto, and McKenzie (Journal of Development Economics, 2014) providing bounds estimates and the innovative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131509
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Occupational sorting and wage gaps of refugees
Baum, Christopher F.; Lööf, Hans; Stephan, Andreas; … - 2020
Refugee workers start low and adjust slowly to the wages of comparable natives. The innovative approach in this study using unique Swedish employer-employee data shows that the observed wage gap between established refugees and comparable natives is mainly caused by occupational sorting into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012233550
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Occupational sorting and wage gaps of refugees
Baum, Christopher F.; Lööf, Hans; Stephan, Andreas; … - 2020
Refugee workers start low and adjust slowly to the wages of comparable natives. The innovative approach in this study using unique Swedish employeremployee data shows that the observed wage gap between established refugees and comparable natives is mainly caused by occupational sorting into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012222073
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Estimating the wage premia of refugee immigrants : lessons from Sweden
Baum, Christopher F.; Lööf, Hans; Stephan, Andreas; … - 2024
This paper examines the wage earnings of fully-employed previous refugee immigrants in Sweden. Using administrative employer-employee data from 1990 onwards, about 100,000 refugee immigrants who arrived between 1980 and 1996 and were granted asylum, are compared to a matched sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014483881
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Wage effects of educational mismatch according toworkers' origin : the role of demographics and firm characteristics
Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2021
This paper analyses the wage effects of educational mismatch by workers' origin using a sizeable, detailed matched employer-employee dataset for Belgium. Relying on a fine-grained approach to measuring educational mismatch, the results show that over-educated workers, regardless of their origin,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012652813
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The supply of foreign talent : how skill-biased technology drives the location choice and skills of new immigrants
Beerli, Andreas; Indergand, Ronald; Kunz, Johannes - 2021
An important goal of immigration policy is to facilitate the entry of foreignborn workers whose skills are in short supply in national labor markets. In recent decades, information and communication technology [ICT] has fueled the demand for highly educated workers at the expense of lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012703250