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Gender differences in economics PhD field specializations with correlated choices

Sierminska, Eva; Oaxaca, Ronald L. - 2021

We model the process of field specialization choice among beginning economists within a multivariate logit framework … that accommodates single and dual primary field specializations and incorporates correlations among field specialization … specialization dissimilarity. Preferences and characteristics contribute about equally to field specialization dissimilarity. …

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The legacies of the Soviet influence in the 1950s : China's 156 major industrial projects

Jin, Zhangfeng - 2021

This paper investigates whether and how China's adoption of Soviet-aided industrialization programs in the 1950s has affected its long-run innovation. Focusing on 156 major industrial projects aided by the Soviet Union, combined with an instrumental variable approach, I find that the adoption of...

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Disentangling the attractiveness of telework to employees : a factorial survey experiment

Moens, Eline; Verhofstadt, Elsy; Van Ootegem, Luc; … - 2022

This research adds to the literature on the attractiveness of telework to employees. To this end, we set up an innovative factorial survey experiment in which a high-quality sample of employees evaluates job offers with diverging characteristics, among which a wide variation in telework...

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Occupational regulation, institutions, and migrants' labor market outcomes

Koumenta, Maria; Pagliero, Mario; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2022

We study how licensing, certification and unionisation affect the wages of natives and migrants and their representation among licensed, certified, and unionized workers. We provide evidence of a dual role of labor market institutions, which both screen workers based on unobservable...

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Why do parents under invest in their children's education? : evidence from China

Wang, Jiyuan; Alessie, Rob; Angelini, Viola - 2022

In this paper we study whether the presence of binding liquidity constraints and the existence of fixed costs can explain the underinvestment of parents in their children's human capital. We first incorporate these two potential mechanisms into the theoretical model of Raut & Tran (2005) and...

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Dynamics of returns to vocational education in China : 2010-2017

Chen, Jie; Pastore, Francesco - 2022

In this paper, we use the Chinese General Social Survey data (2010-2017) to analyse the returns to different education qualifications. We additionally compare the returns to vocational education with returns to academic education, at both the upper secondary level and the tertiary level....

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

Duman, Anil; Duman, Alper - 2021

Various studies found wage gaps between formal and informal sector workers even after controlling for a number of individual and firm level characteristics. It has also been shown that earnings differentials across these sectors are quite stable over the years. While there is limited amount of...

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The supply of foreign talent : how skill-biased technology drives the location choice and skills of new immigrants

Beerli, Andreas; Indergand, Ronald; Kunz, Johannes - 2021

An important goal of immigration policy is to facilitate the entry of foreignborn workers whose skills are in short supply in national labor markets. In recent decades, information and communication technology [ICT] has fueled the demand for highly educated workers at the expense of lower...

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Wage theft, economic conditions, and market power : the case of H-1B workers

DeVaro, Jed; Norlander, Peter - 2021

This study explores what determines employers' violations of the wage contracts of workers on H-1B temporary work visas, which occur when firms pay those workers below the promised prevailing or "market" wage. A theoretical framework is proposed that predicts more violations during economic...

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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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