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Country of origin, earnings convergence, and human capital investment : a new method for the analysis of U.S. immigrant economic assimilation
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Mark C. - 2018
The initial earnings of U.S. immigrants vary enormously by country of origin. Via three interrelated analyses, we show earnings convergence across source countries with time in the United States. Human-capital theory plausibly explains the inverse relationship between initial earnings and...
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The impact of forced displacement on host communities : a review of the empirical literature in economics
Verme, Paolo; Schuettler, Kirsten - 2020
to employment, wages, prices and household well-being. The meta-analysis finds that most results on employment and wages … are non-significant. When significant, decreases in employment and wages are more likely to occur than increases with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239323
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How the earnings growth of U.S. immigrants was underestimated
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Mark C. - 2021
Two radically different descriptions of immigrant earnings trajectories in the U.S. have emerged. One asserts that immigrant men following the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act have low initial earnings and high earnings growth. Another asserts that post-1965 immigrants have low initial...
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The distributional impacts of early employment losses from COVID-19 : [running head: employment losses from COVID-19]
Cho, Seung Jin; Winters, John V. - 2020
COVID-19 substantially decreased employment, but the effects vary among demographic and socioeconomic groups. We … document the employment losses in April 2020 across various groups using the U.S. Current Population Survey. The unemployment … rate understates employment losses. We focus on the percentage of the civilian population that is employed and at work …
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Occupational segregation and the gender wage gap : evidence from Ethiopia
Bedaso, Fenet Jima - 2024
This paper examines the role of female occupational segregation on the gender wage gap across the entire wage distribution. Using the Ethiopian labor force survey, I employ unconditional quantile regression based on the recentered in uence function and correct sample selection issues that arise...
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Inclusive recruitment? : hiring discrimination against older workers
Drydakis, Nick; MacDonald, Peter; Bozani, Vasiliki; … - 2017
Addressing population ageing requires a rise in the activity rates of older workers. In this study, a field experiment for the period 2013-2015 in the UK, suggests that age discrimination persists at alarming levels. It shows that when two applicants engage in an identical job search, the older...
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A field study of age discrimination in the workplace : the importance of gender and race : pay the gap
Drydakis, Nick; Paraskevopoulou, Anna; Bozani, Vasiliki - 2022
The study examines whether age intersects with gender and race during the initial stage of the hiring process and affects access to vacancies outcomes and wage sorting. In order to answer the research question the study collects data from four simultaneous field experiments in England. The study...
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Gender inequality in COVID-19 times : evidence from UK prolific participants
Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2020 - Revised version: 12December2020
We investigate gender differences across multiple dimensions after three months of the first UK lockdown of March 2020, using an online sample of approximately 1,500 Prolific respondents residents in the UK. We find that women's mental health was worse than men's along the four metrics we...
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The Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown : first order effects on gender gaps in employment and domestic time use in India
Deshpande, Ashwini - 2020
Survey (CPHS) database, this paper investigates the first effects of Covid-19 induced lockdown on employment and the gendered … pattern of time allocation inside the home. Examining the employment status during the last 12 months of over 40 …,000 individuals surveyed in April 2020 (i.e. during the strict nationwide lockdown), the paper finds that overall employment, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012249672
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Fiscal policy instruments for inclusive labour markets : a review
Ernst, Ekkehard; Merola, Rossana; Reljic, Jelena - 2024
This study provides a critical assessment of various fiscal policy instruments - including direct public job creation, active labour market and care policies, social protection measures and tax reforms - and their effectiveness in supporting the most vulnerable groups in the labour market....
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