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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,...
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We examine how the gender of business-owners is related to the wages paid to female relative to male employees working … - starting from a gender pay gap of 11 to 12 percent - two to three percentage-points lower for hourly wages in female … - determine wages and no differences in the pay gap are observed between male- and female-owned firms. …
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Purpose: This paper tries to identify the impact of international student mobility on the first wages of tertiary … and international experience as control variables. The author addresses the possible selection to employment bias by using …
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mismatch, this study analyses the short and medium-term effects of over- and undereducation on the wages of newly hired workers … results also indicate that the wages of individuals in the beginning of their labour market career are the most affected by a …
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Purpose: This paper tries to identify the wage gap between informal and formal workers and tests for the two-tier structure of the informal labour market in Poland. Design/methodology/approach: I employ the propensity score matching (PSM) technique and use data from the Polish Labour Force...
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We test for the signalling hypothesis versus human capital theory using the Wiles test (1974) in a country which has experienced a dramatic increase in the supply of skills. For this purpose, we construct a job match index based on the usefulness of the school-provided skills and the relevance...
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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...
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This paper studies the occupational selection among generations of immigrants in the United States and links their choices to the occupational wage distribution in their country of origin. The empirical results suggest that individuals are more likely to take up an occupation in the US that was...
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This study conducts a meta-analysis to assess the effects of robotization on employment and wages, compiling data from … 33 studies with 644 estimates on employment and a subset of 19 studies with 195 estimates on wages. We identify a … publication bias towards negative outcomes, especially concerning wages. After correcting for this bias, the actual impact appears …
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Overeducated workers are more productive and have higher wages in comparison to their adequately educated coworkers in … the same jobs. However, they face a series of challenges in the labor market, including lower wages in comparison to their … performance pay jobs as an adjustment mechanism and that performance pay moderates their wages. Using German Socio-Economic Panel …
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