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Social Assimilation and Labor Market Outcomes of Migrants in China
Cai, Shu; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2020
Previous research has found identity to be relevant for international migration, but has neglected internal mobility as … in the case of the Great Chinese Migration. However, the context of the identities of migrants and their adaption in the … migration process is likely to be quite different. The gap is closed by examining social assimilation and the effect on the …
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Occupational Regulation, Institutions, and Migrants' Labor Market Outcomes
Koumenta, Maria; Pagliero, Mario; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2022
We study how licensing, certification and unionisation affect the wages of natives and migrants and their representation among licensed, certified, and unionized workers. We provide evidence of a dual role of labor market institutions, which both screen workers based on unobservable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012817870
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Social Identity and Labor Market Outcomes of Internal Migrant Workers
Cai, Shu; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2024
international migration. Examining social identity and labor market outcomes in China, the country with the largest internal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014451099
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The Effects of the 2008 Labour-Migration Reform in Sweden: An Analysis of Income
Irastorza, Nahikari; Emilsson, Henrik - 2020
In 2008, Sweden changed its labour-migration policy in order to facilitate more labour migration from countries outside … the EU. The unique design of the new law meant abandoning most state ambitions to shape labour migration. Under the new …. The effects of the policy change are substantial. Non-EU labour migration increased and its composition changed after the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012292034
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Estimating the effects of the minimum wage in a developing country: A density discontinuity design approach
Jales, Hugo - 2017
This paper proposes a framework to identify the effects of the mini- mum wage on the joint distribution of sector and wage in a developing country. I show how the discontinuity of the wage distribution around the minimum wage identifies the extent of non-compliance with the minimum wage policy,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631436
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The Immigrant-Native Wage Gap in Germany Revisited
Ingwersen, Kai; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2019
This study provides new evidence on the levels of economic integration experienced by foreigners and naturalised immigrants relative to native Germans from 1994 to 2015. We decompose the wage gap using the method for unconditional quantile regression models by employing a regression of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012006902
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The Impact of Exposure to Missionaries on the English Language Proficiency and Earnings of Immigrants in the USA
Larsen, Nicholas; Chiswick, Barry R. - 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore how potential exposure to missionary activity impacts both English language proficiency and labor market earnings of male and female immigrants to the United States. Design/Methodology/Approach: This study uses the pooled files of the American...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054560
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Reflections on wage-setting
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2018
expectations about inflation and future growth. Migration plays a significant role to balance wages across regions and countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011874299
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From Engineer to Taxi Driver? Language Proficiency and the Occupational Skills of Immigrants
Imai, Susumu; Stacey, Derek; Warman, Casey - 2018
We examine the ability of immigrants to transfer the occupational human capital they acquired prior to immigration. We first augment a model of occupational choice to study the implications of language proficiency on the cross-border transferability of occupational human capital. We then explore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011883687
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Commuting Patterns, the Spatial Distribution of Jobs and the Gender Pay Gap in the U.S.
Gutierrez, Federico H. - 2018
This paper studies to what extent gender differences in commuting patterns explain the observed disparities between … husband and wife in relation to earnings and wages. It is argued that the cost of commuting is higher for women because they … differences in commuting patterns. A conditional Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition indicates that short commutes are strongly …
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