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The impact of forced displacement on host communities : a review of the empirical literature in economics
Verme, Paolo; Schuettler, Kirsten - 2020
to employment, wages, prices and household well-being. The meta-analysis finds that most results on employment and wages … are non-significant. When significant, decreases in employment and wages are more likely to occur than increases with …
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Country of origin, earnings convergence, and human capital investment : a new method for the analysis of U.S. immigrant economic assimilation
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Mark C. - 2018
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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Estimating returns to schooling and experience : a history of thought
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2023 - Revised 11/30/2023
return to schooling and labor market experience. It begins with a presentation of Adam Smith's (1776) analysis of wage … function" (HCEF), which added years of post-school labor market experience. Attractive features of the HCEF are discussed …. Extensions of the HCEF in the 1970s and early 1980s account for interrupted labor marker experience, geographic mobility, and …
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How the earnings growth of U.S. immigrants was underestimated
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Mark C. - 2021
of individuals-sample restrictions commonly used by labor economists are avoided. …
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Wage distributions in origin societies and occupational choices of immigrant generations in the US
Zhan, Crystal - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299919
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Training, human capital, and gender gaps in entrepreneurial performance
Brixiova, Zuzana; Kangoye, Thierry - 2019
In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, policymakers have been increasingly striving to support female entrepreneurship as a possible growth driver. This paper contributes to reconciling mixed findings in the literature on the effectiveness of entrepreneurial training with an analysis...
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Are school-provided skills useful at work? : results of the Wiles test
Liwiński, Jacek; Pastore, Francesco - 2017
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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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 and Tobago. Using individual person's data from the Continuous Sample Survey of the Population (CSSP) for the period 1991-2015, the returns of over-educated workers is...
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Education-occupation mismatch and dispersion in returns to education : evidence from India
Grover, Shweta; Sharma, Ajay - 2020
and social benefits of education in terms of productivity gains and wages as well as to reduce wage dispersion. …
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Occupational segregation and the gender wage gap : evidence from Ethiopia
Bedaso, Fenet Jima - 2024
distribution. Using the Ethiopian labor force survey, I employ unconditional quantile regression based on the recentered in uence … function and correct sample selection issues that arise due to nonrandom decision of female labor force participation using … distribution, even after controlling for personal and labor market characteristics. Importantly, female occupational segregation …
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