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high-skill workers.In this paper we show that a model of employer taste-based discrimination in a labor market … workers. We use the model to undertake a structural decomposition and conclude that discrimination resulting from employer …
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structure on labor supply differs between natives and immigrants, we explicitly distinguish between part-time and full-time jobs …
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postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities …
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and job mobility. Across education groups permanent shocks to productivity have become more dispersed. Moreover …
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duration dependence in unemployment benefits in a random on the job search model featuring two-sided heterogeneity. General …
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-employee data to measure mean- and quantile-wage differentials of immigrants and ethnic minorities, both within and across firms. We …
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This paper integrates two strands of literature on overskilling and disability using the 2004 British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS). It finds that the disabled are significantly more likely to be mismatched in the labour market, to suffer from a pay penalty and to have lower job...
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gap is left unexplained.In sum, these results are consistent with the presence of income discrimination towards females …
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Gender wage and employment gaps are negatively correlated across countries. We argue that non-random selection of women into work explains an important part of such correlation and thus of the observed variation in wage gaps. The idea is that, if women who are employed tend to have relatively...
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The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied … of overeducation among non-Western immigrants. We also analyze whether there is state-dependence in overeducation and … extend the immigrant educational mismatch literature by investigating whether this is a more severe problem among immigrants …
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