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Life satisfaction, pro-activity, and employment

Akay, Alpaslan; Karabulut, Gökhan; Yilmaz, Levent - 2021

Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper investigates how pro-active time-use (e.g., in sports/arts/socializing) relates to subjective well-being of the unemployed and their probability of finding a new job. Allowing for a variety of socio-demographic and...

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English skills and early labour market integration : evidence from humanitarian migrants in Australia

Cheng, Zhiming; Wang, Ben Zhe; Jiang, Zhou; Taksa, Lucy; … - 2020

We use the panel data from the Building a New Life in Australia survey to examine the relationships between proficiency in English and labour market outcomes among humanitarian migrants. Having better general or speaking skills in English is certainly associated with a higher propensity for...

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Educational and skills mismatches : unravelling their effects on wages across Europe

Cultrera, Loredana; Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François; … - 2022

This paper is among the firsts to investigate the impact of overeducation and overskilling on workers' wages using a unique pan-European database covering twenty-eight countries for the year 2014, namely the CEDEFOP's European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey. Overall, the results suggest a wage...

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The more the gloomier : development of informal employment and its effect on wages in Turkey

Duman, Anil; Duman, Alper - 2021

, the development of wage gap between formal and informal employment has not been examined. In our paper, we carry this … Survey (LFS) for the period of 2005 and 2019. There are three main findings; first, decline in informal employment is not … the rise of white collar low skilled service (WCLS) jobs among informal employment is mainly responsible for the …

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Wage effects of educational mismatch according toworkers' origin : the role of demographics and firm characteristics

Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2021

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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The over-education wage penalty among PhD holders : a European perspective

Rycx, François; Santosuosso, Giulia; Vermeylen, Guillaume - 2022

, skills needed for the job, other job-specific characteristics and motivations for employment) in order to interpret the over …

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Does over-education raise productivity and wages equally? : the moderating role of workers' origin and immigrants' background

Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022

We provide first evidence of the impact of over-education, among natives and immigrants, on firm-level productivity and wages. We use Belgian linked panel data and rely on the methodology from Hellerstein et al. (1999) to estimate ORU (over-, required, and under-education) equations aggregated...

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Decent work and the quality of work and employment

Green, Francis - 2021

This review examines the concept of the quality of work and employment (QWE), including both 'Decent Work' and the …

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Educational mismatches of newly hired workers : sort and medium-run effects on wages

Araújo, Isabel; Carneiro, Anabela - 2020

Exploring a rich matched employer-employee data set over the 1998-2012 period and a novel measure of educational mismatch, this study analyses the short and medium-term effects of over- and undereducation on the wages of newly hired workers. The data show that more than 50 percent of the...

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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...

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