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Physical Attractiveness, Employment, and Earnings

Pfeifer, Christian - 2011

Survey data is used to estimate the impact of physical attractiveness rated by the interviewer as well as by the respondent on employment probability and labor income of men and women. In addition to mean linear and non-linear effects on earnings, simultaneous quantile regressions are applied to...

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The Assignment of Workers to Tasks with Endogenous Supply of Skills

Dupuy, Arnaud - 2013

This paper presents a general equilibrium assignment model of workers to tasks with endogenous supply of skills. The model has 2 key features. First, skills are endogenous and multidimensional. Second, two types of assignment occur; workers self-select the type of skills to supply and firms...

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Value Added, Wages, and Labor Market Flows at the Establishment Level

Merkl, Christian - 2018

In this paper, we analyze the connection between value added, wages, and labor market flows at the establishment level. We develop a simple model to illustrate the expected comovement of these variables. For the empirical analysis, we link the new German Administrative Wage and Labor Market Flow...

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Equal-Treatment Policy in a Random Search Model with Taste Discrimination

Kaas, Leo - 2009

We consider a search model of the labor market with two types of equally productive workers and two types of firms, discriminators and non-discriminators. Without policy intervention, there is wage dispersion between and within the two worker groups, but all wage differences become negligible...

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Monopsonistic Discrimination, Worker Turnover, and the Gender Wage Gap

Barth, Erling - 2009

Motivated by models of worker flows, we argue in this paper that monopsonistic discrimination may be a substantial factor behind the overall gender wage gap. On matched employer-employee data from Norway, we estimate establishment-specific wage premiums separately for men and women, conditioning...

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Skill Mismatches in the EU : Immigrants vs. Natives

Nieto, Sandra - 2013

The objective of this paper is to analyse and explain the factors behind the observed differences in skill mismatches (vertical and horizontal) between natives and immigrants in EU countries. Using microdata from the 2007 wave of the Adult Education Survey (AES), different probit models are...

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The Labor Market Effects of Immigration and Emigration in OECD Countries

Docquier, Frédéric - 2012

In this paper, we simulate the labor market effects of net immigration and emigration during the 1990's in all OECD … wage effects of immigration and emigration. We use a range of parameter values spanning most of the estimates in the … literature. In all cases we find that immigration had a positive effect on the wage of less educated natives. It also increased …

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Modelling the Effects of Immigration on Regional Economic Performance and the Wage Distribution : A Cge Analysis of Three EU Regions

Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2009

The paper uses a regional Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model to analyse the effects of immigration on three … investigated. The results indicate significant differences in the extent to which regional economies are affected by immigration …

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Estimating the Impact of Immigration on Wages in Ireland

Barrett, Alan - 2009

We estimate the impact of immigration on the wages of natives in Ireland applying the technique proposed by Borjas … suggest that care should be exercised when applying this method as inaccurate impressions of the impact of immigration on …

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Immigrant Wages in the Spanish Labour Market : Does the Origin of Human Capital Matter?

Sanroma, Esteban - 2009

The aim of this paper is to analyse the role played by the different components of human capital in the wage determination of recent immigrants within the Spanish labour market. Using microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes 2007, the paper examines returns to human capital of...

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