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-2005. We find that only the HEI graduates obtain a wage premium from skills acquired in the course of formal education. This …
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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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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 impact of international student mobility on the first wages of tertiary … education graduates in Poland. Design/methodology/approach: The author uses data from the nationwide tracer survey of Polish … education institution (HEI) on a rich set of individuals' characteristics. In order to reduce the bias due to selection to …
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, the estimates show that origin-based differences in over-education wage penalties significantly depend on both … demographics (workers' region of birth, education, and gender) and employer characteristics (firm size and collective bargaining). …
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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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and social benefits of education in terms of productivity gains and wages as well as to reduce wage dispersion. …Using a national level sample survey on labour market in India, we analyze the role of education-occupation (mis …-)match (EOM) in explaining within-group dispersion in returns to education. Applying a double sample selection bias correction and …
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As China's firms upgrade their position in the quality ladder, vocational education may become more important. In this … paper, we study returns to secondary vocational education in China paying attention to individual heterogeneity. We use … of education. We find that vocational education provides a wage premium vis-à-vis academic education of over 30% but …
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Using historical, longitudinal data on individuals, we track the earnings of immigrant and U.S.-born women. Following individuals, instead of synthetic cohorts, avoids biases in earnings-growth estimates caused by compositional changes in the cohorts that are followed. The historical data...
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traditional role of education. We first apply a two-way fixed-effects wage estimation, a' la AKM, to the Italian private sector … the economic background of their parents. This influence on wages is significant and relatively greater than the impact of …
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