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% after 2010 compared to non-Hispanics. In terms of earnings, Hispanics face a substantial negative disparity between 20% and …, while the earnings disparity increases with education. Comparing Hispanic immigrants with natives reveals much of the … employment and earnings gains are attributable to Hispanic immigrants, particularly immigrants not fluent in English. …
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% after 2010 compared to non-Hispanics. In terms of earnings, Hispanics face a substantial negative disparity between 20% and …, while the earnings disparity increases with education. Comparing Hispanic immigrants with natives reveals much of the … employment and earnings gains are attributable to Hispanic immigrants, particularly immigrants not fluent in English. …
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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...
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Using a two-stage decomposition technique, this paper analyzes the role of occupational segregation in explaining the probability of women vis-'a-vis men of finding high-paying jobs over the life-cycle. Jobs are classified as highly-remunerated if their compensation exceeds a threshold, which is...
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Using administrative data from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings linked to the 2011 Census of England and Wales …
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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 in their firms. Using Finnish register data and employing firm fixed effects, we find that the gender pay gap is - starting from a gender pay gap of 11 to 12 percent - two to...
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We examine the heterogeneous impacts of foreign language use at work on earnings of both native-born workers and … work is found to have an unambiguously positive impact on their earnings (2% on average). Second, for foreign-born workers …
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of English skills on labour market status and, conditional on being a wage earner, on monthly earnings and occupational … level of skills in English and earnings, which is only modestly reduced when job-related variables and (especially … English) seems to stimulate labour market participation and earnings capacity, but does not substantially affect the …
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language proficiency and labor market earnings of male and female immigrants to the United States. Design … model and their labor market earnings using the human capital earnings function that is estimated with an ordinary least … earnings, and those from countries with a greater concentration of Catholic missionaries exhibit lower levels of both, compared …
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The wage effect of overeducation has only recently been investigated in the case of Ph.D. holders. The existing contributions rely on OLS estimates that allow measuring the average effect of being educationally mismatched at the mean of the conditional wage distribution. This paper, instead,...
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