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How immigrants helped EU labor markets to adjust during the Great Recession
Kahanec, Martin; Guzi, Martin - 2017
The economic literature starting with Borjas (2001) suggests that immigrants are more flexible than natives in responding to changing sectoral, occupational, and spatial shortages in the labor market. In this paper, we study the relative responsiveness to labor shortages by immigrants from...
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Moving up the social ladder? : wages of first- and second-generation immigrants from developing countries
Pineda-Hernández, Kevin; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022
As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working-age population in the developed world, their labour market integration constitutes a key factor for fostering economic development and social cohesion. Using a granular, matched...
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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
wages. We use Belgian linked panel data and rely on the methodology from Hellerstein et al. (1999) to estimate ORU (over …
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Testing for asymmetric employer learning and statistical discrimination
Ge, Suqin; Moro, Andrea; Zhu, Beibei - 2020
We test if firms statistically discriminate workers based on race when employer learning is asymmetric. Using data from the NLSY79, we find evidence of asymmetric employer learning. In addition, employers statistically discriminate against non-college educated black workers at time of hiring. We...
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Overeducation, performance pay and wages : evidence from Germany
Baktash, Mehrzad B. - 2023
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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Wages and productivity in Argentinian manufacturing : a structuralist and distributional firm-level analysis
Gómez, María Celeste; Virgillito, Maria Enrica - 2023
Wages and productivity represent two of the most relevant variables to consider in economic development. Given the low … translate into higher wages. Thus, we pose the following questions applied to a middle-income trapped country: is there a link … between labour productivity and wages in the Argentine manufacturing sector? Does it differ across techno-productive classes …
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The over-education wage penalty among PhD holders : a European perspective
Rycx, François; Santosuosso, Giulia; Vermeylen, Guillaume - 2022
While the literature on the incidence and wage effects of over-education is substantial, specific results for doctoral graduates are surprisingly scarce. This article aims to fill this gap, not only by measuring the prevalence of over-educated PhD holders in Europe (i.e. in EU Member States and...
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Effects of mandatory military service on wages and other socioeconomic outcomes
Puhani, Patrick A.; Sterrenberg, Margret K. - 2021
, we test for the effects of mandatory military service on wages; employment; marriage/partnership status; and satisfaction …
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Lost wages : the COVID-19 cost of school closures
Psacharopoulos, George; Collis, Victoria; Patrinos, … - 2020
Social distancing requirements associated with COVID-19 (coronavirus) have led to school closures. In mid-April, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization reported that 192 countries had closed all schools and universities, affecting more than 90 percent of the...
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Estimating the wage premia of refugee immigrants : lessons from Sweden
Baum, Christopher F.; Lööf, Hans; Stephan, Andreas; … - 2024
overperformance is due to female refugee immigrants, who have-relative to their endowment-higher wages than comparable native …
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