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Background wage premia, beyond education : firm sorting and unobserved abilities
Bonacini, Luca; Patriarca, Fabrizio; Santoni, Edoardo - 2024
This paper investigates the relationship between intergenerational inequality and differences in pay policies among … inequality across generations, and particularly how this can enhance the understanding of transmission mechanisms beyond the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014637312
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Returns to postgraduate education in Portugal : holding on to a higher ground?
Almeida, André; Figueiredo, Hugo; Cerejeira, João; … - 2017
In this paper we use a large official employer-employee dataset, which includes almost the whole universe of business firms, to document and decompose the rising graduates postgraduates' wage differentials in Portugal. Using a non-parametric matching exercise, we pay particular attention to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012111543
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Does vocational education pay off in China? : instrumental-variable quantile-regression evidence
Dai, Li; Martins, Pedro S. - 2020
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012175860
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The labour market for native and international PhD students : similarities, differences, and the role of (university) employers
Tani, Massimiliano - 2020
This paper studies the labour market outcomes of native and foreign PhD graduates staying as migrants in Australia, using data on career destinations over the period 1999-2015. Natives with an English-speaking background emerge as benefiting from positive employer discrimination, especially if...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012252391
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Look who's talking : on the heterogeneous returns to foreign language use at work among natives and migrants in Europe
Wang, Zhiling; Graaff, Thomas de; Nijkamp, Peter - 2017
We examine the heterogeneous impacts of foreign language use at work on earnings of both native-born workers and foreign-born workers, using a longitudinal survey, viz. the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) running from 1994 to 2001. Our findings are the following. First, for native-born...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119134
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From engineer to taxi driver? : language proficiency and the occupational skills of immigrants
Imai, Susumu; Stacey, Derek; Warman, Casey - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130639
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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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Parental migration, investment in children, and children's non-cognitive development : evidence from rural China
Jiang, Hanchen; Yang, Xi - 2019
parental migration affects children's non-cognitive development. We use longitudinal data of children in rural China and adopt … the effect of parental migration on children's educational outcomes and cognitive achievements, this study focuses on how … labor market conditions in destination provinces as instrumental variables for parental endogenous migration choice. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149247
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Education-occupation mismatch and dispersion in returns to education : evidence from India
Grover, Shweta; Sharma, Ajay - 2020
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 Mincerian quantile wage regression estimation, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012268432
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012128718