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This paper analyzes wage differences between natives and immigrants in Austria. First, we show that for both groups …, literacy skills are an important determinant of the hourly wage. In the second step, we show that differences in proficiency … with respect to literacy can explain more than three log points of the total wage gap of 9.7 log points between natives and …
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graduates (Graduate Tracer Study 2007) and regresses the hourly net wage rate in the first job after graduating from a higher … those who studied in Poland only. However, the author also finds that this wage premium is partly explained by international … economic migration after graduation. Studying abroad brings a wage premium only if it is followed by working abroad. Those who …
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recruitment, but non-EU migrants have the largest impact on wage determination. …
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. Our purpose is to estimate the wage premium from foreign language skills (FLS) earned by the Poles. We also want to find … Balance survey with a pooled sample of about 35,000 individuals. We estimate wage equation with the Heckman correction for … foreign language bring a 6% wage premium to individuals working in Poland and 22% to those working abroad. Interestingly …
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The initial earnings of U.S. immigrants vary enormously by country of origin. Via three interrelated analyses, we show earnings convergence across source countries with time in the United States. Human-capital theory plausibly explains the inverse relationship between initial earnings and...
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The wage effect of overeducation has only recently been investigated in the case of Ph.D. holders. The existing … conditional wage distribution. This paper, instead, observes the heterogeneity of the overeducation penalty along the hourly wage … out R&D outside the Academia. The size of the penalty is higher among those who are in the mid-top of the wage …
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signal directions for market adjustments to ensure growth. Wage growth is driven by relative scarcity, labor productivity and …. Wage growth has been low in most developed economies because of underutilized labor if properly measured. Germany seems to … wage setting and labor market reforms. …
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Immigrants in many Western countries have experienced poor economic outcomes. This has led to a lack of integration of child immigrants (the 1.5 generation) and the second generation in some countries. However, in Canada, child immigrants and the second generation have on average integrated very...
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Remote work is rapidly increasing in the US. Using data on full-time wage and salary workers from the GHIJ …-GHIL American Time Use Survey Leave and Job Flexibilities Module, we estimate hourly wage differentials between teleworkers and … teleworkers earn a wage premium, but it varies by occupation, gender, parental status, and teleworking intensity. In all …
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evidence on wage payments to works councilors for the period 2001 to 2015. We find wage premia of 2% to 6% in OLS …-specifications, which are more pronounced for long-term works councilors. Moreover, we observe no wage premia in linear fixed-effects panel …
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