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Overeducation in Trinidad and Tobago's labour market : a quantile regression approach

Doon, Roshnie - 2021

This study examines the impact that over-education has on the earnings of private and public sector workers in Trinidad …

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The labour market for native and international PhD students : similarities, differences, and the role of (university) employers

Tani, Massimiliano - 2020

outcomes, especially if they work in the university sector. Acquiring education in the host country does not appear to …

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Returns to skills or returns to tasks? : a comment on Hanushek et al. (2015)

Köppl-Turyna, Monika; Christl, Michael - 2017

We comment on the work of Hanushek et al. (2015) and show that returns to skills are very heterogeneous and depend crucially on the tasks performed in the workplace, in line with the critique by Acemoglu and Autor (2011). Depending on the type of tasks performed at work, as well as on...

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The impact of internship experience during secondary education on schooling and labour market outcomes

Neyt, Brecht; Verhaest, Dieter; Baert, Stijn - 2019

The literature on workplace learning in secondary education has mainly focussed on vocational education programmes. In … this study, we examine the impact of internship experience in secondary education on a student’s schooling and early labour … sequential outcomes by means of a dynamic discrete choice model. In line with the literature on vocational education programmes …

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The evolution of labor market disparities between Hispanic and non-Hispanic men : 1970-2019

Kospentaris, Ioannis; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2023

, while the earnings disparity increases with education. Comparing Hispanic immigrants with natives reveals much of the …

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The evolution of labor market disparities between Hispanic and non-Hispanic men : 1970-2019

Kospentaris, Ioannis; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2023

, while the earnings disparity increases with education. Comparing Hispanic immigrants with natives reveals much of the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287104

The labor market returns to "first in family" university graduates

Adamecz-Völgyi, Anna; Henderson, Morag; Shure, Nikki - 2022

We examine how first in family (FiF) graduates (those whose parents do not have university degrees) fare on the labor market. We find that among women, FiF graduates earn 7.4% less on average than graduate women whose parents have a university degree. For men, we do not find a FiF wage penalty....

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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...

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Wage theft, economic conditions, and market power : the case of H-1B workers

DeVaro, Jed; Norlander, Peter - 2021

This study explores what determines employers' violations of the wage contracts of workers on H-1B temporary work visas, which occur when firms pay those workers below the promised prevailing or "market" wage. A theoretical framework is proposed that predicts more violations during economic...

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Sexual orientation discrimination in the labor market against gay men

Drydakis, Nick - 2021

The study replicates the first European field experiment on gay men's labor market prospects in Greece. Utilizing the same protocol as the original study in 2006-2007, two follow-up field experiments took place in 2013-2014 and 2018-2019. The study estimated that gay men experienced occupational...

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